Flamethrower - Forgotten Weapons

British “Life Buoy” WWII Flamethrower

October 3, 2017 Ian McCollum 11

One of the the flamethrower design styles to come out of experimentation late in World War One was the toroid type, with a donut-shaped fuel tank and a central spherical pressure bottle. The British continued […]

Japanese Type 100 Flamethrower

May 30, 2016 Ian McCollum 30

The Japanese Type 93 and its slightly-improved sister the Type 100 were the standard flame weapons of the Imperial Japanese Army for its fighting in China and the Pacific. They are a smaller and handier […]

US M2/M2A1 Flamethrower

May 12, 2016 Ian McCollum 21

After a dismal first attempt at designing a flamethrower (the M1) in 1941, the US Chemical Corps along with several universities and industrial partners put in a lot of research to develop a more usable […]

Flamethrower Q&A with Charlie Hobson

May 9, 2016 Ian McCollum 44

http://www.flamethrowerexpert.com Today’s questions by timestamp are: 0:40 – After international conventions banned most flamethrower use, where and when have they still been used and why? 1:15 – What Hollywood examples are particularly realistic and which […]

Introduction to Military Flamethrowers with Charlie Hobson

May 5, 2016 Ian McCollum 40

Flamethrowers are a significant piece of military weapons history which are very widely misunderstood, as flamethrowers have never been the subject of nearly as much collector interest as other types of small arms. The US […]

German troops demonstrating use of a WWI flamethrower

Vintage Saturday: Flammenwerfer

April 30, 2016 Ian McCollum 20

Note how this, like many early flamethrowers, was a two-man affair. One carried the tanks and the other aimed and fired the projector.

German Freikorps arraying with flamethrowers during the 1919 Spartacist revolt in Berlin

Vintage Saturday: Serious Riot Control

October 31, 2015 Ian McCollum 63

Nothing says “Disperse!” like flamethrowers and grenades…

Suomi m/31 and Underbarrel Flamethrower

October 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 34

A Finnish reader named Ossi sent us a photo and some information on a rather outlandish Finnish weapon developed at the tail end of the Continuation War with the USSR. It was a standard m/31 […]