This page is a list of flamethrowers of all forms from all around the world.Small arms illustrated, 2010
Human portable
Name/designation Year ofintroduction Country oforigin Notes Argeș 1930s Argeș was a portable Romanian flamethrower designed at the end of the 1930s by the Army's study and experiment laboratory, located in the building of the Obor mask factory. It was adopted by the Romanian Land Forces on June 30, 1943, in order to supplement the Italian Pignone flamethrower of 1937 and the German models of 1935 and 1939. As incendiary mixture, it could use gasoline, petroleum or the special liquid H-E, a compound of gasoline and oil that appeared after the distillation of tar. DGFM flamethrower 1916 The DGFM flamethrower was a flamethrower of Argentine origin manufactured in 1916. Einstossflammenwerfer 46 1944 The Einstossflammenwerfer 46 was a light single-shot flamethrower, used as an auxiliary infantry weapon during late World War II. It was a handheld device, composed of a cylindrical tank with a pistol grip and a nozzle at the end. It weighed only , it contained of fuel and had a range of . Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 1943 The Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 (nicknamed "Lifebuoy" from the shape of its fuel tank), also known as the "Ack Pack", was a British design of backpack flamethrower for infantry use in the Second World War. It was a near copy of the German Wechselapparat ("Wex") from 1917. It contained of fuel in a doughnut-shaped container. Flammenwerfer M.16. 1916 The Flammenwerfer M.16. was a flamethrower used by German infantry during World War I for clearing trenches and killing riflemen. It was used in 1918 in the Battle of Argonne Forest in France. The Germans in the 1940s created a further development, the Flammenwerfer 35. German riflemen would often be positioned behind flamethrower-carrying infantry. The flamethrowers would kill large numbers of enemy infantry, enabling the riflemen to attack the remaining troops with a high probability of success. Flammenwerfer 35 1935 The FmW 35 was the one man German flamethrower used during World War II used to clear out trenches and buildings. This was a deadly weapon that was extremely effective at close range. It could project fuel up to 25–30 m from the user. This weapon was also known as the "skinsteal", because using this weapon at close range would usually result in severe skin loss. The burning liquid compound used produced fumes very similar to lachrymatory agents. It contained of fuel in a single vertical cylindrical tank. Its disadvantage was its large weight (36 kg). Flammenwerfer 41 1941 The Flammenwerfer 41, or FmW 41, was the German flamethrower used during late World War II, used to clear out trenches and buildings. It was the more upgraded version of the Flammenwerfer 35. It could project fuel up to 32 m from the user. It contained 7.5 L of fuel in a horizontal cylindrical tank and weighed 22 kg. Handflammpatrone 1965 The 'Handflammpatrone' DM34 was a single-shot, disposable incendiary weapon issued to the German Armed Forces from 1965 to 2001. It fired a red phosphorus round that would explode after on hard contact, or after 1.3 seconds by fuse. The fuel spreads across an area approximately 15 m wide and 50 m long and burns at 1,300 °C. Max range 90 m. Harvey Flamethrower 1940 The Harvey flamethrower comprised a welded steel cylinder containing 22 gallons (100 L) of creosote and a standard bottle of compressed nitrogen at mounted on a sack truck. It could produce a jet of fuel lasting about 10 seconds at a range of up to . Hay flamethrower 1917 Home Guard Flamethrower 1940 The Home Guard Flamethrower stored fuel in a barrel mounted on hand cart that was light enough to be wheeled along roads and possibly over fields to where it was needed. A hand-operated pump would give a flame of up to in length. K pattern flamethrower 1944 The K pattern (Polish: wzór K) was a man portable backpack flamethrower, clandestinely produced in occupied Poland during World War II for the underground Home Army. These flamethrowers were used in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. It contained 15 L of fuel in a cylindrical tank and weighed 25.6 kg, Kleinflammenwerfer 1911 The first German man portable flamethrower, was known as the Kleif (Kleinflammenwerfer). Fuel was stored in a large vertical, cylindrical backpack container. High pressure propellant was stored in another, smaller container attached to the fuel tank. A long hose connected the fuel tank to a lance tube with an igniting device at the nozzle. The propellant forced the fuel through the hose and out of the nozzle at high speed when a valve was opened. The igniting device at the nozzle set fire to the fuel as it sprayed out. The flamethrower was operated by two soldiers, one carrying the fuel and propellant tanks, another wielding the lance. There was also a Grof ('Gro'ss'f'lammenwerfer) also introduced in 1911. Lanciafiamme Modello 35 1935 The Lanciafiamme Modello 35 was Italian backpack flamethrower used during World War II. It contained 12 L of fuel in two cylindrical tanks and weighed 27 kg. Lanciafiamme Mod. 41 d'assalto 1941 The Lanciafiamme Mod. 41 d'assalto was a flamethrower meant to be an extremely light and compact in order to equip paratroopers and Assault Engineers. LC-T1-M1 1984 The LC-T1-M1 was built by the Brazilian company Hydroar for the Brazilian army in 1984 to serve as a replacement for the WWII era M2 Flamethrower. It consists of two units: the tank group, and the gun group. The tank group works in a similar way to the M2 Flamethrower: the two vertical tanks are filled with fuel, and the single horizontal tank is filled with inert gas at high pressure. A regulator is then used to supply a constant pressure of 250-350psi to the two fuel tanks. The gun group is operated by first pressing the front trigger to engage the igniter, then pushing the rear lever forwards to discharge the fuel. Liekinheitin M/44 1944 The Liekinheitin M/44 was designed by Sergeant M. Kuusinen in 1944. He attached the flame tube of a flamethrower to the underbarrel of a Suomi KP/-31, Finland's standard issue submachine gun.Combat Guns: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Firearms, Osprey, 1987 . This turned the Suomi into a combination weapon that could act as both a submachine gun and a flamethrower so the operator wouldn't have to rely for assistance of other soldiers so much for covering fire. LPO-50 1950 Soviet Army flamethrowers had three backpack fuel tanks side by side. Its user could fire three shots, each emptying one of the tanks. The mechanism used to empty the tank was not a pressurized gas cylinder but a black powder cartridge on each fuel cylinder. This type is used in two versions, the "Light Infantry Flamethrower" (Легкий Пехотный Огнемёт) LPO-50 (ЛПО-50), and the "Heavy Infantry Flamethrower" (Тяжёлый Пехотный Огнемёт) TPO-70 (ТПО-70); a heavier, wheeled version was remotely triggered. M1A1 Flamethrower 1940 The M1 and M1A1 were portable flamethrowers developed by the United States during World War II. M1 weighed 72 lb, had a range of 15 meters, and had a fuel tank capacity of 5 gallons. The improved M1A1 weighed less at 65 lb, had a much longer range of 45 meters, had the same fuel tank capacity, and fired thickened fuel (napalm). M2 flamethrower 1943 The M2 flamethrower (M2-2) was an American man portable backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II. It was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. M9 flamethrower 1960 The M9 flamethrower was an American man portable backpack flamethrower that was used in the Vietnam War. It was lighter and easier to pack than the M1 and M2 series flamethrowers. Despite its light weight, with more advanced formula of napalm that was used during Vietnam War compared to old napalm formula that was used during WWII, it could easily reach the effective range of , while the effective ranges still remained around once pressure is vastly lowered. The later modification M9E1-7Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: was even smaller compared to the original M9 model, being five meters shorter and had 6–7 seconds rate of fire compared to 9–10 of original M9. Marsden flamethrower 1941 The Marsden flamethrower comprised a backpack with of fuel pressurised to by compressed nitrogen gas, the backpack was connected to a "gun" by means of a flexible tube and the weapon was operated by a simple lever. The weapon could give 12 seconds of flame divided into any number of individual spurts. Morriss portable flamethrower 1918 ROKS flamethrowers 1935 The ROKS-2 and ROKS-3 were man portable flamethrowers used by the USSR in the Second World War. The ROKS-2 was designed not to attract attention so the fuel tank was square and resembled a regular backpack, and the nozzle looked like a service rifle. The propellant tank was a small bottle underneath the backpack fuel tank. ROKS-3 was a simplified design and had a regular cylindrical fuel tank. The Finnish designation for captured ROKS-2 units was m/41-r. Schilt Flamethrower 1916 The Schilt flamethrower was a French flamethrower made in response to the German flamethrowers on the Western Front. It was used in both World War I and World War II. Tirrena T-148/B 19?? The T-148/B flamethrower consists of a shoulder-mounted tank, a connecting tube and a lance. The two cylinders of the tank are filled to two-thirds with a total of 12 liters of flammable gelatine and the remaining space with nitrogen compressed to 28 kg/cm². When not in use, the gas is vented from a screw on the side of the filling valve. Electricity for the sparks that ignite the jet of liquid is provided by a 9.6 V rechargeable electric accumulator, weighing 0.625 kg. The operating temperature ranges from -20 °C to +60 °. Type 93 and 100 flamethrowers 1933 The Type 93 and Type 100 Flamethrowers (九三式/一〇〇式火炎放射器, Kyūsan-shiki/Hyaku-shiki kaenhōshaki?) were flamethrowers used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy's SNLF during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Wechselapparat 1916 The Germans introduced another small flamethrower design in 1916 to replace the earlier Kleif. The Wechselapparat ("Wex") had a doughnut-shaped backpack fuel container with a spherical propellant container in the middle. This design was updated during the Second World War to become flamethrower model 40. However, model 40 was considered too fragile, so it was soon replaced by model 41, a simpler construction with smaller, horizontal, cylindrical backpack containers. The doughnut-shaped container design was copied by the British during World War II.
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