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That’s hot and spicy

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I’ve long been a fan of flamethrowers, both civilian and military. It probably dates back to my youth spent losing my eyebrows with the assistance of a can of AquaNet and a Bic lighter, but I digress.

I did an article back in 2013 as kinda a primer on flame weapons in which I referred to the leading expert in the country on U.S. martial flamethrowers, Charles Hobson, who has gotten several of these all too-often scrapped devices back to their natural state.

Well my homie Ian over at Forgotten Weapons managed to track Hobson down and did an excellent walk through on flamethrower doctrine and timelines in the below video. Great job!

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So yeah, I’ll admit it. I’ve always had kind of an unhealthy interest in flame weapons bordering on pyromania. Even as a kid the flame-pack green army man was the most coveted in the bag.

Well, it looks like someone is crowdfunding a personal one.

Flame weapons, while banned in warfare (Engineering units can still use them for brush clearing etc), are pretty much unregulated in the states, which means everything you see is legal.

More info over at Popsci