#flammenwerfer

[kollaps7]

Megalomania - Isolation

Flammenwerfer

Copenhagen, May 2, 2026

Blixa Bargeld

[moavetwo]

/@ ryankellycomedy about lotr and ww1

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Snapetober day 7: Flame

"Hans Severus; get ze Falmmenwerfer!"

Today's piece is inpired by my post war snirius fanfiction "Agents of chaos", where Severus and Sirius are recruted by a secret organisation.

Sev seems to have picked up a flamethrower... bye bye enemies!

[amykirisame]

I don't want to set the wooorld on fireeee

Bonus greenscreen version

[thisdayinwwi]

Donut Flamethrowers

Mar 6 1918 #OTD At Menil-la-Tour, France, a US official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 94318, of American soldiers with captured German "donut" flame thrower, the Wechselapparat.

Oct 16 1918 #OTD At a training center near Chaumont, France, a US official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 60982, of American troops displaying a captured German donut flame thrower, the Wechselapparat.

National Archives Identifier: 55218287 Local Identifier: 111-SC-29489

Mar 14 1920 Photo, Call Number: LC-B2- 4894-1, shows soldiers during the Kapp Putsch with flame throwers in the Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

1918 a German photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 45348, of a captured British Mark IV tank (named “Fritz”) being used by the Germans. One of the Germans in trench are wearing a Wechselapparat flamethrower Colourized by Julius Jääskeläinen

[pinturas-gran-guerra]

1918 10 07  Argonne, Sturmtruppen - John Shumate

The final German attack on the lost battalion just after 1700hrs on 7 October 1918. Just two of the Americans’ original nine Hotchkiss machine guns were still functional. After days without food and medicine, and with little water and sleep, surviving Americans were weak and in poor health. Nevertheless, according to multiple accounts, once the final German assault began, wounded men rose from their foxholes with their rifles, while those too injured to move loaded rifles for the rest. From behind the American pocket, and uphill, the Germans attacked with potato masher grenades. The 16 Strosstruppen attached that afternoon attacked the Americans’ left flank with a handful of flamethrowers. On the right flank, Captain Nelson Holderman and a sergeant repulsed a German attack almost single-handedly. The attack lasted at least an hour and a half and virtually exhausted the Americans’ last ammunition. Throughout the nearly week-long siege, both sides had engaged in shouted psychological warfare, as many of the besieging Germans spoke English, while many of the encircled Americans spoke German. As the attack failed, the surviving Americans began screaming taunts at the Germans. Minutes later, an American patrol broke through to Whittlesey’s pocket, ending the siege.

[your-raifu-is-shit]

Roast ze flammenwerfer.

Flamethrowers are one of those ideas that sound awesome in concept but fall apart under the slightest bit of scrutiny.

Sounds badass at first, right? “I’m gonna set that sumbitch on fire from half a block away!” Well, there’s your first problem right there - you gotta get too damn close.  The entire history of warfare - from clubs to spears to bows to guns to artillery to aircraft to long range missiles to rail guns and hypersonics - has been about getting farther from the other guy, not closer. Man-portable flamethrowers top out around 30-40 meters max range, well within the range where even a beginning shooter can hit a man-sized target with a rifle.

Well, ok, so they’re shit if you’re outside, but what about in more confined settings like clearing out trenches or bunkers? The problem there is how damn big and bulky they are. Just look at that picture - that’s a big fucking tank on his back. WWII flamers ranged anywhere from 40-80 lbs in weight and would make trying to maneuver through any confined space a bitch. Now you’re just a big, fat, slow target, and one that’s probably gonna pull a shit-ton of aggro to boot. The Hollywood depiction of a single bullet causing the entire tank to ignite isn’t super likely, but a puncture in the pressurized tank could still cause it to rupture and throw shrapnel everywhere.

Flamethrowers are all about style over substance - they look cool and intimidating as hell, but they’ve got nothing to back it up and there’s a reason they fell out of favor post-WWII and into complete obsolescence by the end of Vietnam.

[pencilbrony]

When the flames raise your core temperature ~