Portable compressed-gas flamethrower (Flammenwerfer)
Lanzallamas portátil de gas comprimido (Flammenwerfer)
- Date
- 1901 (prototipo) / 1915 (uso en combate) · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- Richard Fiedler
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
A tank of flammable oil pressurised with compressed gas that projected a lit jet some 20 metres. Fiedler submitted models to the German army in 1901 and it adopted the weapon in 1911; it was used in combat in 1915 (Malancourt and Hooge).
Fiedler built the first models in 1901, demonstrated them in 1905 and teamed up with Reddemann in 1908; the German army accepted it in 1911.
What it led to
- assault on trenches and bunkers
- Second World War flamethrowers
- napalm