Flashcards: Incendiary weapons

The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒ qiāng) or fire spear was one of the first gunpowder weapons in the world.

A fire balloon (風船爆弾 fūsen bakudan, lit. "balloon bomb"), or Fu-Go (ふ号[兵器] fugō [heiki], lit. "Code Fu [Weapon]"), was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II.

TOS-1 (Russian: ТОС-1 – тяжёлая огнемётная система, English: Heavy Flamethrower System) is a Soviet 220mm 30-barrel (original system, Ob.634 or TOS-1M) or 24-barrel (Ob.634B or TOS-1A) multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon mounted on a T-72 tank chassis.

Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.

A grenade is a small bomb typically thrown by hand.

Falarica, also Phalarica was an ancient Iberian ranged pole weapon which were sometime used as an incendiary weapon.

Chlorine trifluoride is an interhalogen compound with the formula ClF3.

Triethylaluminium (TEAL) is an organoaluminium compound.

The M202 FLASH (FLame Assault SHoulder Weapon) is an American rocket launcher, designed to replace the World War II–vintage flamethrowers (such as the M1 and the M2) that remained the military's standard incendiary devices well into the 1960s.

Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States.

BINC-300 is a Brazilian incendiary bomb.

A Ranken dart was an air-dropped weapon developed during World War I for the purpose of destroying or damaging the German Zeppelins which were attacking Britain at the time.

The FHJ-84 (Simplified Chinese: 发射器，化学，箭, meaning "Launcher, Chemical, Projectile") is an over/under twin-barreled 62 mm incendiary rocket launcher used by the People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces.

A fire pot is a container, usually earthenware, for carrying fire.

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Thermate is a variation of thermite and is an incendiary pyrotechnic composition that can generate short bursts of very high temperatures focused on a small area for a short period of time.

The Handflammpatrone DM34 ("hand-held flame-cartridge") was a single-shot, disposable incendiary weapon issued to the German Armed Forces from 1965 to 2001.

A flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to fougasse and may be spelled foo gas) is a type of mine or improvised explosive device which uses an explosive charge to project burning liquid onto a target.

Thermite (/ˈθɜː(r)maɪt/) is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder, fuel and metal oxide.

M4 flame fuel thickening compound is a nonhygroscopic thickener, adi-acid aluminum soap of isooctanoic acids derived from isooctyl alcohol or isooctyl aldehyd, which are obtained from the oxidization of petroleum.