Molotov Projector?

[RUPD3658]

I don't like the product but I love their commercials.

My two alltime favorites are:

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and

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As you can see I have much to much free time at work to find these things on the internet.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

As you can see I have much to much free time at work to find these things on the internet.

Your words, buddy, not mine!

[RUPD3658]

I work for the State..what do you expect? [:)]

[Terminus]

Well, true...[:D]

[KG Erwin]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

I work for the State..what do you expect? [:)]

Another state employee? What agency? I work for the WV State Tax Dept -- "we make your money work for us." [:D]

[KG Erwin]

To Terminus: I really appreciate the great info you're posting -- for a brief moment, I thought a Molotov Projector might be a tool for a movie critic -- "wanna see me flame this waste of film? Well, here ya go -- "

[Terminus]

No problem, Gunny, I like finding this stuff.

As far as I can deduce from the gobbledegook produced by Babel Fish, this thing was based on an industrial machine tool, and fired thick-walled glass balls (ampoules, hence "Ampulomet") filled with White Phosphorous, launched by blank flare gun ammunition. Sounds like a very expensive, and needlessly complicated way to cause serious injury to your own men! [:D]

[Sharkosaurus rex]

Haven't you guys played Advanced Squad Leader?

The molotov projector was used by the Soviets in 1942-43 and then discarded. It was not recoilless. The US Army refered to it as a low-trajectory mortar for firng incendiary ampules at AFV. It was smooth-bore and muzzle-loaded. Its use was not widespread but during 42/43 at leat some rifle battalions contained one molotov projector platoon of 2-4 weapons. Photographic evidence suggests it was used in Stalingrad.


Also if you played Combat Mission- Barbarossa to Berlin the molotov projector also appears in the Russian OoB.