#Flamethrower
From Flamethrower to Rocket Box: The XM202 Story
Most of you will remember Arnold Schwarzenegger firing the M202 quad rocket launcher in the 1985 film Commando. In the popular imagination, a “flamethrower” usually means a heavy fuel tank strapped to someone’s back, a hose, and a very nervous operator spraying liquid fire a short distance across some patch of jungle. By the late 1960s, that classic setup was already dated, dangerous to its user, cumbersome, and too short-ranged for the bunker, trench, and tree line problems that American units kept running into in Vietnam.
