Flamethrower - Flamethrower A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, project an ignited stream of liquid. It is used by the military and also by those needing controlled burning, such as in agriculture or other land management tasks. Military flamethrowers The man-portable incendiary weapon is usually called a backpack flamethrower. The backpack element consists of two (or three) cylinders. One cylinder holds flammable liquid and the other compressed flammable gas. A three cylinder system has two outer cylinders of liquid and a central cylinder of gas to improve the balance. The gas is used to force the liquid out of the cylinder into a pipe and then the gun part of the system. The gun attachment consists of a small reservoir, a.
Incendiary device - or weapon designed to create a fire. this is a stub article See also: flamethrower firebomb napalm Molotov cocktail Greek fire fuel-air explosive arson accelerant.
German tank production during World War II - Panzer II was a heavier vehicle, designed to replace the Panzer I. It was armed with a 20 mm cannon which had some anti-armour capability. Before the war started, 1223 had been built. 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Pz II 15 9 223 322 Pz II (f) - 84 Marder II - - - 372 Wespe - - - - 514 162 Note: Pz II (f) = flamethrower tank Marder II = 75 mm Pak 40 gun on Pz II chassis (SdKfz 131) Wespe = 105 mm light field howitzer on Pz II chassis (SdKfz 124) Panzer 38(t) In March 1939 Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia and took over the Czech arms manufacturing industries. The LT-38 tank, then in production, was renamed Panzer 38(t) ("t" standing for Tschechisch, German.
Greek fire - victories, and partly the reason for the Empire surviving as long as it did, particularly near the end of the Empire when there were not enough inhabitants of Byzantium to effectively defend it. It was first used in 672 against an attacking Arab fleet, and it quickly become one of the most fearsome weapons of the medieval world; the mere sight of any sort of siphon, whether it was used for Greek fire or not, was often enough to defeat an enemy. However, it was hard to control, and often accidentally set Byzantine ships on fire as well. It was in a general way similar to the modern flamethrower. See also napalm to learn about a flammable substance which has been used in modern warfare, notably the Vietnam War..
Fahrenheit 451 - Montag starts questioning the world he is in. The plot is driven by Montag's rejection of the mindless world in which he lives. He begins to collect books, to the horror of his wife, Mildred, whose only interest in life is the viewing of vacuous television shows (a parody of 1950's programming). When ordered to put fire to his house, he instead turns his flamethrower on Beatty, his fire chief. With the aid of Faber, a well-educated but timid old man, he eludes a police helicopter and escapes into the forest, where he joins a wandering band of intellectual rebels, who have committed books to memory. ISBN numbers ISBN 0606006281 (prebound, 1953) ISBN 0871293102 (paperback, 1986) ISBN 0345342968 (mass market paperback, 1987) ISBN 089968484X (library binding, 1990, reprint) ISBN 067187229X (hardcover,.
Enemy Territory - repair vehicles, build constructions (command posts, bridges and such), and plant dynamite and landmines. Engineers spawn with four grenades, and are the only class that can carry the grenade launcher. Engineer class skill - Engineering Level 1 - Spawns with four extra grenades and four extra rifle grenades. Level 2 - Arms and defuses dynamite and landmines in half the time. Level 3 - Power Bar requirements for construction, destruction, arming and defusing reduced by %30. Level 4 - Engineer now wears a flak jacket. Flak jacket reduces damage from explosives by %50. Covert Ops Sneaky bastards. Coverts can steal a dead enemy's uniform, toss opaque smoke grenades to provide visual cover, and drop a satchel charge (remote-controlled bomb). The Covert Op is the only class that can use scoped weapons.
T-26 - were produced. Variants T-26 model 1931 - Twin turret version with machineguns. T-26 model 1932 - Twin turret version with 37 mm gun. T-26TU - Command version with radios. OT-26 - Flamethrower variant. T-26 model 1933 - One turret version with 45 mm gun - the most numerous variant. OT-130 - Flamethrower variant of model 1933. T-26 model 1938 - New semi-conical turret. T-26 model 1939 (T-26S) - Semi-conical turret, increased armour with sloped hull sides. OT-133 - Flamethrower variant of model 1939, without a gun. OT-134 - Flamethrower variant of model 1939, with 45 mm gun. SU-5-1 - Self propelled gun. 76.2 mm howitzer (few vehicles). SU-5-2 - Self propelled gun. 122 mm howitzer (few vehicles). SU-5-3 - Self propelled gun. 152.4 mm mortar (few vehicles). Combat History First saw.
T-28 - one large turret with a 76.2 mm gun and two smaller turrets with 7.62 mm machineguns. Variants T-28 T-28A - With thicker armour. T-28B - Longer gun. T-28C - Improved armour. OT-28 - Flamethrower version. Combat History The T-28 was used during the Winter War against Finland and against the Japanese in 1939. The armour of the T-28 was found to be too thin and after the Winter War production was halted and the tank replaced by the T-34. See also: List of tanks, List of Soviet tanks. The T-28 Trojan was a trainer airplane used by the U.S. Navy after 1949. It was later replaced by the T-34 Mentor..
Battle of Delium - saw the heaviest fighting. The Boeotian left wing was surrounded and defeated, but Pagondas sent some cavalry to support them and the Athenians were defeated. Meanwhile, the Boeotian right wing was also victorious, and the Athenians fighting there fled; when the Athenian centre saw that their two wings had been defeated they also fled. About 500 Boeotians and 1000 Athenians had been killed, including Hippocrates. The Boeotians chased the Athenians until nightfall. Most of the Athenians returned to the fort at Delium, where a Boeotian herald announced that they were offending land sacred to the Boeotians and must leave. The Athenians replied that the land was now theirs and was now sacred to them, and that they held it in self-defense from the Boeotians, who were allies of the Spartans. For.
Soviet tank production during World War II - 67 40 IS-2 - - - 35 2210 1150 SU-152 - - - 704 ISU-122/152 - - - 35 2510 1530 The T-28 was an older tank reaching the end of its production in 1940. KV (Klimenti Voroshilov) series The KV-1 was armed with a 76 mm gun; as with the T-34, the length of the gun was increased during production. The KV-2 used the same hull as the KV-1 but was armed with a 152 mm howitzer in a huge turret. KV-85 was a KV-1 fitted with an 85 mm gun. KV-8 was a flamethrower version. The KV-1S was a version of the KV-1 with lighter armour (making it more mobile) and a new turret (still with a 76 mm gun). The SU-152 was a 152 mm howitzer on a.
Pyro (comics) - he desires, or increasing or decreasing its heat, intensity or size. His only limitation is that he cannot actually create fire - in the comic books he often carries a flamethrower into battle, in the movie a young Pyro is shown always in the posession of a lighter. Pyro cannot be burned by any fire he is controlling, but if he turns his attention from it it will revert back to normal flames and can harm him. Pyro's firey "creatures" have a greater solidity than normal flame, so a giant flame "bird" that Pyro created would be able to pick up something and carry it in it's talons. In Australia, Pyro met the mutant Mystique, who later recruited him to be a part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He has.
Naval history - know little, in 431 BC, tensions exploded into the Peloponnesian War between Athens' Delian League and the Spartan Peloponnese. Naval strategy was critical; Athens walled itself off from the rest of Greece, leaving only the port at Piraeus open, and trusting in its navy to keep supplies flowing while the Spartan army besieged it. This strategy worked, although the close quarters likely contributed to the plague that killed many Athenians in 429 BC. There were a number of sea battles; at Rhium, Naupactus, Pylos, Syracuse, Cynossema, Cyzicus, Notium. But the end came for Athens in 405 at Aegospotami in the Hellespont, where the Athenians had drawn up their fleet on the beach, and were there surprised by the Spartan fleet, who landed and burned all the ships. Athens surrendered to Sparta.
Wild Wild West (movie) - same name. It was criticized for excessive marketing and poor quality. The film featured footage of a giant mechanical spider, equipped with a flamethrower. The film was also criticized for having a handicapped wheelchair bound character played by a "star" (Branagh) who was not handicapped, when various persons associated with the film felt a handicapped individual was qualified for the role. The handicap was the absence of any body below the ribs. The soundtrack's title song starts with the words WikiWiki, which is not a reference to the WikiWiki technology, but makes a great soundbite when introducing a WikiWiki..
