Khanzeer
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Good point but no Money for itShouldn't a ecologist be invited to talk how human is encroaching natural habitat of many animals next?
Good point but no Money for itShouldn't a ecologist be invited to talk how human is encroaching natural habitat of many animals next?
Cave systems are too big for flamethrowers to work.I could see use for it in the cave systems of Afghanistan - the bad guys are hold up in a cave, stick the nozzle in and watch them surrender... or burn...
Cave systems are too big for flamethrowers to work.
Cave systems are too big for flamethrowers to work.
Cave systems are too big for flamethrowers to work.
Go see a cave system in the Hindu Kish. And weep.They worked to combat some of the tunnel system in Vietnam War - - You just find one of the entrances / exits - put your nozzle into it and watch them surrender or fry.
Yeah, I could pretty much only imagine it being used to clear foliage, or perhaps to destroy camps and supplies.
Using them atop of drones to clear foliage or other things is probably the most probable.
I meant a tracked or wheeled drone, also known as a UGV or unmanned ground vehicle.Provided the user has actual intel that the foliage is being used as camouflage, or if the forest could be, for whatever reason, defined as a military objective (hard to do that). Otherwise you're back to the prohibitions of Protocol III.
It would be a largish drone (given the need of a fuel tank) having to fly pretty low. If you really want to burn foliage from the air, a stand-off napalm warhead is much safer for the platform. largish drones are costly, even if unmanned, and you don't want to sacrifice them to just any old shoulder-fired SAM.
You still have to comply with the relevant provisions, too.
Maybe not man portable ones but mounted on vehicles is I am sure doable I mean look at the Churchill Crocodile in WW2 amazing bit of equipment also add on the fact that the ,aim gun is still usable is a great two for one offer. With armour you can get close and very personal with infantrymen and strong points.
The closest thing I could see would be flamethrowers mounted on armored personnel carriers (i.e. Strykers) and be used in urban combat situations to attack enemies at close range without infantry having to leave the vehicle.
Go see a cave system in the Hindu Kish. And weep.
How about giant mortars of 160mm caliber able to launch incendiary fire bombsWhy have a flamethrower when you can burn them from the air?
No but really the only place I see flamethrowers surviving is in close combat for times when your and the enemys troops are too close together to bomb.
I've always favored sticking a flamethrower on a highly mobile armored robotic frame and have it scurry into the cave complex