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One of the funner things I got to shoot as a young Lightfighter in Hawaii was the M202 Flash “flamethrower.” Basically a box of four rocket tubes, the launcher fired a 66mm rocket (based on the M72 LAW) with an incendiary warhead. We shot them on the range, but I don’t recall ever even seeing…
One of the funner things I got to shoot as a young Lightfighter in Hawaii was the M202 Flash “flamethrower.”
Basically a box of four rocket tubes, the launcher fired a 66mm rocket (based on the M72 LAW) with an incendiary warhead.
We shot them on the range, but I don’t recall ever even seeing any plans for using them in wartime. If I had to guess, I think we were primarily just shooting off some old stocks before they were withdrawn from service.
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Couldn’t help but notice the range was in a dried-out forest as the flaming chunks of Wp traced an arc through the pine-boughs!
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It’s actually a more exotic filler, TEA – triethylaluminum- which burns on contact with air. But your point about the likelihood of Range Control shutting them down very shortly is pretty valid.
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IT doesn’t take a lot of effort to get a range fire going. I saw them every time my unit went to live fire at either Shelby, or Campbell. Fortunately things were wet enough to keep them from getting away from us.
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Best FLASH gunner in our rifle company when I was a lieutenant?
The company Medic.
Dude could drop a rocket into the hatch of the tank hulks on the range as targets from 200 – 250 meters away.
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