>>81338
If you really want to nerf it, remember that IRL they can't just put gasoline or kerosene in it. Flamethrower juice has some kind of thickening agent in it. It's non-trivial to make, if you can even get the ingredients. There are lots of recipes, and details that nobody cares about other than Feds lurking to see whether they can slap anyone with "muh material support fur muh terrorisms" charges fur posting the infurmation, but IRL you're not going to be able to pour a jerrycan of gas into the tank and hope fur the best. Without the thickener you aren't going to get a dense stream that gives decent range, and part of the effectiveness will be lost because it's supposed to shoot dense sticky gooey flaming goop. Also the nozzles and valves were designed fur thickened fuel, and may not work properly, if at all, if you just fill it up with kerosene or whatever.
>>81347
>>81351
More stuff nobody cares about. IRL these weapons tend to have a backpack that has multiple tanks: one or two propellant tanks, which can be filled with compressed dry nitrogen or something similar. Compressed air in close proximity to flamethrower fuel is extremely dangerous, blah blah partial pressure of oxygen, same reason oxygen tanks have tags on the valves that say "DO NOT OIL." Stuff ignites and bad things happen. An incendiary projectile would have to hit the fuel tank while it was pressurized to do much, and, given that this stuff is normally carried around on one's back, this doesn't raise the danger level fur the user very much, because a bullet is likely to go right through him after passing through the tank anyway.
...ask me about the old M202 "Flash" launcher that had four 66mm LAAWS rockets inside it except that the warheads were filled with gelled trimethylaluminum. Like a number of organometallic compounds it's lively stuff. It ignites instantaneously upon exposure to air and burns at thousands of degrees, and the flame emits both visible light and ultraviolet light that can cause permanent blindness if you look in its direction too long.
There was some real, no-fooling Dr. Strangelove stuff they had back in the Cold War. They used most of it up in Desert Storm, like the laser-guided 155mm rounds, and gave the rest away as military aid to people like the new-and-improved Iraqi government, and never bought any more.
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