Accuracy of flame tanks

[Weasel]

Well fire must do something to a tank or else the Soviets wouldn't have invented the Molotov cocktail.

I do know that on older tanks the episcopes were not sealed tight, thus the gasoline would be able to seep into the episcopes with no problems. But mostly they would use it on the engine compartment to melt hoses etc. Throwing it at the side of a tank turret wouldn't do a thing.

Hell we even use to have the gun blast come down the episcopes when the main gun was fired over the drivers hatch! Boy was that fun having a sheet of flame come down the scope. Always had to make sure you sat well back in your seat when they were shooting.

Obviously todays episcopes are well sealed incase of NBC wafare.

I just finished reading a book called CUTHROAT about a sherman tank driver in the pacific. They mounted a flame thrower to his tank were the bow MG should be. Well when they went to use it the naplam dribbled down the front of the tank and set the tank on fire! Luckily they also installed a fire extinguisher to the front of the tank in case that happened and they were able to put it out, but the author sure was freaking out!! It ended up the pressure tank had a leak and all the pressure had escaped so there wasn't enough to squirt the napalm out.

BTW - the crew hated it so much that they took the flamethrower out after the first try.