It was designed to shoot incendiary rounds to replace the aging army’s flamethrower from World War 2, the M1 and M2. Go figure. It’s always shown taking out tanks or giant monsters in video games, when it reality it burns shit.

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    It also leaks self-igniting fuel all over the place bc iirc it’s a factory loaded unit and can’t be disassembled to store the launcher separated from the ammo. Classic US MIC.

    Apparently they stopped using them a long time ago bc thermobaric weapons are so much better for killing people in fortifications.