That IS a definite hazard... though I seem to recall the WWII M2-2 as used by Marines on the Pacific islands would spew napalm in a 300-yd line. If I see my buddies get BBQ'ed at 300, I'm gonna back off... at least long enough to go get a Barrett and put a hole in the guy's tank from safe distance.
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>YOU IDIOTS! I WROTE 1984 AS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO MANUAL!--Orwell's ghost
Psalms 109:8, 43:1
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>YOU IDIOTS! I WROTE 1984 AS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO MANUAL!--Orwell's ghost
Psalms 109:8, 43:1
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By memory, no one has a backpack flamethrower with more than a 50-60yd effective range. It just isn't practical based on weight that a person can carry and pressure they can resist (think firehose). The tank mounted ones could manage 100+ and I think some of the riverine patrol boats in Vietnam had maybe 200 yards range.
Major militaries don't really use flamethrowers any more, there's probably a reason for that. By memory China has an incendiary rocket system that they call a flamethrower but is, in fact, rockets with incendiary warheads. I think the west was mostly gone to Raufoss type ammo for this purpose.
The US also developed the M202 FLASH and the Russians have the RPO-A ("Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower-A") with both incendiary and thermobaric (!) rockets. The Russians, for their part, seem to be rather fond of using thermobarics (generally dropped by aircraft) to kill enemy combatants in buildings before sending infantry to clear them (or the remnants of them).
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
America is only finished if the gun owners of the USA don't stand in the breech.
If American gun owners are a bunch of wimps then, the world is in trouble.
For if the Constitution does down the toilet then the world will follow shortly thereafter.
Have you prepared for the worse case scenario?
A rather distressing assessment of the current situation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...anny-has-begun
"Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you boast of in the way of polite society will hardly survive the Faith to which they owe their significance?"
T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock
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