Re: One minute commanders

**Sabre_Tooth_Tigger** · 08-11-2008, 09:27 PM

The entire movie is great, its by the same director who did hamburger hill except this was just a tv movie and is unseen by many

Flame thrower, we have insurgent molotov right now. I quite liked it when it was sticky and could be thrown on a passing land rover. I'd like more smokey much longer lasting flames used by the insurgents for obscuring streets like burning tires.
Otherwise I dont think the flame thrower is used by any army now

**sirsolo** · 08-12-2008, 08:06 AM

With todays modern combat being far distanced with Arty, Air, and Tank strikes instead of 100% infantry, Im not even sure that shotguns are used...
Im not totally sure about this but I think that the flamethrower used against infantry was banned for being too immoral.

§Sirsolo

**Sabre_Tooth_Tigger** · 08-12-2008, 02:44 PM

Nah I read its legal in theory but not used

**billyinorganic** · 08-12-2008, 07:15 PM

All it takes is sit reps..

ALL IT TAKES IS SITUATIONAL REPORTS when asked.

I used to think people who play PR were some how smart.
Some times....... i am given many opportunities to change my opinion.

**Bisclaveret** · 08-12-2008, 08:55 PM

Eh, that clip is so hollywood-fake. His flamethrower IRL would most likely have the range to hit the PaK (about 60-120 feet) even though he wouldn't have a lot of burn time, and the pack wouldn't have exploded on fire like that from being hit.

I hate the Hollywood propane-burning flamers they use, they just look so bad. Most of the damage from the flame isn't the flame itself, the thrower shoots burning liquid out which catches on fire, not a stream of flame like that.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy62quZdbZc&feature=related[/media]

We wouldn't be able to get flamethrowers in PR, sadly. The US voluntarily got rid of all of thiers after Vietnam because of the potential PR issues and the fact that they weren't very effective in a modern military.

**Sabre_Tooth_Tigger** · 08-15-2008, 06:37 PM

I can see why they dumped the flamethrowers, this is a guy firing a shotgun round

A round of dragon's breath being fired at night. Dragon's breath is a shotgun shell that is loaded with a zirconium-based incendiary load. It is capable of sending a fireball 100 yards downrange which can burn for 3-5 seconds.

Everyone would play engineer if they got this

http://www.rogueturtle.com/articles/ammo.php

http://richnamy.com/gallery/classicp...ns_breath.html

**Masterjack** · 08-16-2008, 09:06 PM

I think this thread has been officially hijacked

**BigGaayAl** · 08-17-2008, 03:59 AM

No kidding I keep checking back to see if someone posted on the commander issues and all I get is... Well the shotgun is very cool though. I want that in PR! The ultimate noob kit. To be issued to anyone that doesnt join a squad. Plus you never need to look for a lighter again!

**Sabre_Tooth_Tigger** · 08-17-2008, 10:34 AM

With alot of the regulars testing .8 I figure its a good time to try out something different
I went from 1 minute to 30 minute commanding yesterday, mainly because someone took my truck while I was deploying a firebase but also because of a helpfull squad leader who heard my howls and came to assist

Morale of the story being good squad leaders make the team with or without a commander

More importantly I found the apparent real replacement for the flamethrower, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M202A1_FLASH

As seen in 'commando' , its a rocket launcher incendiary system
[media]http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3879/4762411ck0.jpg[/media]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh-QUh69MCg

The M202A1 FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon) is a type of rocket launcher that was designed to be a replacement for the flamethrower, which was showing its age after World War II.

The M202A1 is lightweight, and features four tubes that can load 66mm incendiary rockets. Each M74 rocket consists of an M235 warhead, containing approximately 1.34 pounds (0.61 kg) of thickened pyrophoric agent (TPA). The rocket-launcher is also capable of firing all four rockets at once, not just one at a time.

TPA is triethylaluminum (TEA) thickened with polyisobutylene. TEA, a organometallic compound, is pyrophoric and burns spontaneously when exposed to air at temperatures of 1200°C (2192° F). It burns "white hot" because of the aluminum, much hotter than gasoline or napalm. The light and heat emission is very intense and can produce skin burns from some (close) distance without direct contact with flame, only by thermal radiation.

**BigGaayAl** · 08-17-2008, 01:05 PM

Oh this seems to be the 'thermite' that was alledgedly used in the twin towers. Funny how use of a 50 cal on infantry is said to be banned, but this, or a jdam, or a clusterbomb,... not.

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