Soldiers didn’t have to carry around a giant, flammable tank either.
“It relieves the field soldier from the burden of mixing flame fuels for the weapons.” Frank Mildren, who had served as the second-in-command of all American forces in Vietnam, said during an official debriefing in 1970. “The weapon reflects a radical departure from traditional flame throwers,” Army Lt. The boxy weapon-unimaginatively dubbed the Multishot Portable Flame Weapon-could could shoot off the fiery projectiles in rapid succession. In response to those requests, the Army’s weaponeers put together a relatively simple four-barrel rocket launcher that would fire 66-millimeter incendiary rockets.
troops used flamethrowers to scorch foliage that guerrillas might use as cover.īut well aware of what an incendiary weapon could do in the Vietnamese jungle, American commanders still wanted an improved design that troops might actually want to use in combat. Instead, the grunts mainly used the fire-spewing guns to seal up tunnels and bunkers after operations had finished up.
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