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thewiseone9115 karma

Honestly get one of those smaller portable XM42 flamethrowers. They use gas as a combustible and have a very short controllable range. However, with that being said I wouldn't use a flamethrower in your back yard!

thewiseone9113 karma

The sound is hard to describe without a specific instance I can't say. It sounds like a roar with liquid fuel. When I use napalm or gelled fuel in it the sound is horrifying. It is truly scary, you knew when one of these was near by and you ran for your life. The sound was also a way to also demoralize the enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDZ54cvg0hY

thewiseone9112 karma

We briefly entertained the idea of reintroducing them for the middle eastern conflict in the early 90s but that idea was quickly shot down. The US currently does not employ portable or vehicle mounted flamethrowers in combat and hasn't done so since Vietnam. I probably wouldn't use a flamethrower on an ant hill. If you're too close and you fire at the ground flames will roll back on you. Then you will get pretty messed up. I would stick with pesticides!

thewiseone9110 karma

Then you're good to go!

thewiseone919 karma

I thought that they were cool.