A Rocket Launcher and Flamethrower Fall in Love, and a Deadly Weapon Is Born [Video]
The M2 flamethrower utilized by Allied forces during WWII proved to be a devastatingly effective weapon against bunkers—and Axis psyches. However, walking around a firefight with a napalm-filled backpack and an effective range of 20m is a great way to become a crispy critter. So the US military developed the M202 FLASH rocket-propelled flamethrower. The M202A1 FLame Assault SHoulder weapon (FLASH) is a four-shot rocket launcher armed with incendiary M74 rockets. It is designed to perform the same function as the M2, only better. The FLASH boasts five times the range of conventional flame throwers at only half the weight. It's also extremely accurate, capable of lobbing a rocket through bunker ports, machine gun nests, foxholes and into other fortified positions up to 750 meters (820 yards) away. The system is capable of firing rockets individually, at a rate of one per second, or all four simultaneously. The FLASH's four M74 66mm rounds are loaded with a M235 Incendiary warhea...