May 20th, 2009, 04:59 AM
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Re: Whats an Aplomet??
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Originally Posted by Mobryan
Playing with some more Russian Partisans, one of the support weapons is a "Ampulomet 1941", which is some variety of ranged napalm weapon. What I'm curious about is, what exactly was it? Some type of short range rocket launcher, a flame mortar, what???
The closest thing I can find references to is the British Northover projecter, which had a similar range and role, and could concievably launch Molotovs.
Matt
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A 125mm tube on 4 legs that threw a petrol filled glass sphere - so much like a Northover/Blackard bombard.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v...um=10#PPA47,M1
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