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Type 100 Flamethrower

Introduced Year : 1940
Weight : 2.6 kg
Range : 25 m
Usable Time : 12 sec. (Type A nozzle), 15 sec. (Type B nozzle)


IJA developed some types of flamethrower. Type 100 flamethrowers were used in the Philippines and Indonesia in the early Pacific War. However, flamethrowers had been hardly used after that. It seems due to that the Japanese had a few opportunity to attack the enemy fortifications.