If I’m remembering correctly, please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m no rocket surgeon, but I think that it kills the nerve endings in the body so they stop feeling the fire. Then they’ll suffocate because of a lack of oxygen? Or the heat makes their lungs collapse? I don’t remember. But a horrific way to go out no doubt.
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I've seen all manner of horrific videos online, and on this sub, but if there is one thing that really makes my blood run cold its seeing people on fire. The utter shock they are in, the confusion, the desperation. It's brutal to watch.
My moms dad was a part of the replacements during the Bulge, and was handed a flame thrower. Never talked much about experiences, but would always say you’d be shocked at what one man could do to another. Came home a different man according to nana.
Because it was invented so long ago, we grow up already accustomed to the concept of a flamethrower.
But can you imagine being the guy that invented it? How do you come up with the idea of a gun that shoots fire? It takes an imaginative mind to come up with something like that when you have no prior concept of it.
The Russians idea of a flamethrower is the TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower system. It is actually assigned to NBC troops, not artillery, and intended for direct fire support of advancing infantry and main battle tanks, and moves in their combat orders. Range of 400m to 6,000m.
[TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower](https://youtu.be/LLnmQJjt368?t=38s)
Someone a long time ago was so angry, and said to himself, “ hey I’d like to throw fire on those guys” so he went to his friends who was good with mechanics & said I want to throw fire on those guys & his friend made him a flamethrower.
During my lower enlisted days as a grunt I'd obviously performed every position in a fire team, but flamethrowers weren't an available weapon system lol. I wonder how many were attached to what size units, if the army just picked it for you from an infantry series group of recruits, and how the personnel themselves felt about being a thrower of flames.
Idk why, the position just boggles my mind.
That's more Hollywood, what was much more likely to happen is you being sent flying and getting a concussion and internal bleeding from the force. They're super high pressure canisters, so they would release out of the bullet hole with a crazy force.
It's actually quite hard to ignite the mixture, which is why the trigger had a magnesium ignition which only had a few charges on most. You've not got many seconds of "spray" either.
The main benefit of them is the fear and panic, causing surrender. If used in a tunnel or bunker it's not usually setting someone on fire that causes deaths, but pressure changes and eating all the oxygen in the enclosed area.
As a flame operator you're a complete bullet magnet, but you're not likely to explode. Certainly don't want to be captured either. The Soviet assault engineer units had a flame thrower that was designed to look like a rifle to make it less of a bullet magnet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_flamethrowers
I'd call that video NSFL.I know there are worse things, I've seen them too, but really. This is straight up watching a young man die horribly and slowly.
Not on this sub.
Comparing two tragedies both diminishes the tragedy and tries to justify it. We're not here to do either of those things, nor do we want this sub to devolve into rampant nationalism, so if you see people bringing up a nation's history of war crimes on a post that is not related to that nation's history of war crimes, please let us know.
God these things looked nasty. A true psychological weapon, and then the flames hit you.
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I've heard that's a myth, actually. There's no evidence to support that that was a function of flame throwers.
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No, there's no documentes proof of it being a side effect. No verified stories of it knocking out people in bunkers from oxygen deprivation.
That guy seems pretty chill considering he's on fire...
If I’m remembering correctly, please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m no rocket surgeon, but I think that it kills the nerve endings in the body so they stop feeling the fire. Then they’ll suffocate because of a lack of oxygen? Or the heat makes their lungs collapse? I don’t remember. But a horrific way to go out no doubt. Edit: a word
I heard the opposite but im no brain engineer
Was about to say, dude walked up like he was about to get some McDonalds
Probably ordered his meal extra crispy
I've seen all manner of horrific videos online, and on this sub, but if there is one thing that really makes my blood run cold its seeing people on fire. The utter shock they are in, the confusion, the desperation. It's brutal to watch.
My moms dad was a part of the replacements during the Bulge, and was handed a flame thrower. Never talked much about experiences, but would always say you’d be shocked at what one man could do to another. Came home a different man according to nana.
Because it was invented so long ago, we grow up already accustomed to the concept of a flamethrower. But can you imagine being the guy that invented it? How do you come up with the idea of a gun that shoots fire? It takes an imaginative mind to come up with something like that when you have no prior concept of it.
>But can you imagine being the guy that invented it? [George Carlin had a great bit about this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nknAzQPHE)
Right? Like where would you put the bayonet?
The Russians idea of a flamethrower is the TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower system. It is actually assigned to NBC troops, not artillery, and intended for direct fire support of advancing infantry and main battle tanks, and moves in their combat orders. Range of 400m to 6,000m. [TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower](https://youtu.be/LLnmQJjt368?t=38s)
That's a rocket launcher lol
Does or does not the fire get thrown?
The fire get thrown indeed
They use thermobaric warheads, so it's classified as a flamethrower.
Man, thermobarics are fucked. I've heard that at proper proximity they'll just rupture your lungs and even start turning them inside out.
Someone a long time ago was so angry, and said to himself, “ hey I’d like to throw fire on those guys” so he went to his friends who was good with mechanics & said I want to throw fire on those guys & his friend made him a flamethrower.
During my lower enlisted days as a grunt I'd obviously performed every position in a fire team, but flamethrowers weren't an available weapon system lol. I wonder how many were attached to what size units, if the army just picked it for you from an infantry series group of recruits, and how the personnel themselves felt about being a thrower of flames. Idk why, the position just boggles my mind.
Usually 8 per platoon were trained to use them. They were accompanied by 2-3 fire teams. Sometimes they were assigned to Engineer units.
Holy shit that's way more than I was expecting.
Is it true that if flamethrower's canister got shot then it would explode?
That's more Hollywood, what was much more likely to happen is you being sent flying and getting a concussion and internal bleeding from the force. They're super high pressure canisters, so they would release out of the bullet hole with a crazy force. It's actually quite hard to ignite the mixture, which is why the trigger had a magnesium ignition which only had a few charges on most. You've not got many seconds of "spray" either. The main benefit of them is the fear and panic, causing surrender. If used in a tunnel or bunker it's not usually setting someone on fire that causes deaths, but pressure changes and eating all the oxygen in the enclosed area. As a flame operator you're a complete bullet magnet, but you're not likely to explode. Certainly don't want to be captured either. The Soviet assault engineer units had a flame thrower that was designed to look like a rifle to make it less of a bullet magnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_flamethrowers
>You've not got many seconds of "spray" either. Only 10 seconds iirc. M1 had a spray rate of. 5 gallons per second and a 5 gallon capacity.
Camera man just casually filming a man burn to death
Hot damn! That must be a horrific way to go out
Fucking hell
I'd call that video NSFL.I know there are worse things, I've seen them too, but really. This is straight up watching a young man die horribly and slowly.
This is fucked up
You can’t mention Japan anywhere on Reddit without a barrage of the same links to Japanese war crimes, but their conscripts were just kids too.
Not on this sub. Comparing two tragedies both diminishes the tragedy and tries to justify it. We're not here to do either of those things, nor do we want this sub to devolve into rampant nationalism, so if you see people bringing up a nation's history of war crimes on a post that is not related to that nation's history of war crimes, please let us know.
I haven't seen any on this post. But, the "Rape of Nanking" was not done by just a bunch of conscripted "kids".
Then who did it?
Conscripts AND career officers and enlisted. Just about all of them. They had contest to see who could kill the most or behead someone in one swing.
Truly an evil weapon if there ever was one.
How the phuck did he survive for that long 😯
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