PLA has demonstrated the use of a knapsack flamethrower

The Chinese army remains one of the few that still use backpack jet flame throwers, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

As previously reported by the Chinese media, at the beginning of the 1950-ies, the Soviet Union delivered the latest LPO-50 infantry flamethrowers to China. Already in 1955, the Chinese army deployed them during a battle with the Kuomintang troops on Yijianshan Island. According to media reports, with the help of these flamethrowers, 45 enemy firing points were destroyed.

Soon, LPO-50 began to be produced in China with the designation “Type-58”.

The total mass of the system is 23 kg, designed for 3 shots in a row (more than 10 liters of combustible mixture distributed over three cylinders are burned). The effective range of direct fire is up to 50 m (along the hinged trajectory, the distance increases to 79 meters).

Later, Chinese engineers improved the flamethrower, denoting it "Type-74". The updated system has become lighter on 3 kg. From the base model, it was also distinguished by higher lesion characteristics and a wider range of applications. In addition, the recharge time was reduced from 10 to 4 minutes.

In the Chinese army there are special units of flamethrowers, whose task is to support the motorized infantry in the course of hostilities.

A short video of the flamethrower can be viewed here.

Comments

[andrewkor]

Disposable flamethrowers only in PLA!

[clown]

It seems that the Chinese are preparing for a “color revolution”. The population is huge and there will not be enough riot police for everyone .. Maybe I’m cruel, but the United States will try to destroy China from the inside and don’t spare money for it .. Just remember the wave of such unrest that swept precisely in Eurasia. .

[Blackmokona]

Why do they happen color, with their economic growth?

[clown]

Quote: BlackMokona

Why do they happen color, with their economic growth?

The USA owes them a lot of money over 1 trillion ... And the Anglo-Saxons do not like competitors and usually destroy them, like the USSR from the inside recently
Remember Livia M. Gaddafi ..? There was no such social network in any country in the world. There was no such thing. He gave a hint about the "air dollars" and the end is to the dude ..
The best option for them is to bleed Russia and China .. There will be sky-high profits that even during the time of Hitler’s attack on the USSR they didn’t receive, and especially after that .. Think about the "dollar exchange rate" ..

[Blackmokona]

1) Only 1 trillion, the head of the Fed can take a piece of toilet paper, write 1 trillion and the debt is paid
2) About Social Gaddafi is a myth. Heaps of billions in foreign banks guarantee this.
3) Therefore, the US is constantly stealing the PRC and Russia?

[Hadastus]

1. What is the head of the Fed so the US debt does not pay off? You look at the US economy and would not dive down.

[Blackmokona]

Did she dive?
US GDP growth by years

year value
2007 1.9
2008-0.3
2009-3.5
2010 2.4
2011 1.8
2012 2.3
2013 1.5
2014 2.4
2015 2.6
2016 1.6

[Hadastus]

Lol, this is a manipulation, not numbers. And the growth of the national debt? Is there already 120% of GDP? And the flight of American factories to Asia? And the degradation of infrastructure? And the loss of competence in many industries, such as nuclear or tank? But can we compare the economy with a really healthy time, when the US economy occupied half of the world’s GDP and there was almost no debt? The Americans wrote about this - Buchanan (Suicide of the Superpower, Death of the West) to Russian communities like Aftershock.

So why the Fed, if so simply does not pay the damn US public debt and not improve the economy? So it’s not so simple.

[conservative]

Why do they happen color, with their economic growth?

Now local pensioners will explain to you what will happen when they are denied pensions, well, as in China now, which they take as a standard

And if GDP growth of at least 10% does not help. Although if you start paying pensions in China, you can forget about economic growth

[Blackmokona]

The PRC has already begun, and pensions do not interfere with growth in any way, since it creates additional demand

[Beltasir matyagu]

Moreover, in China, the situation is constantly heating up from the outside. All kinds of demonstrations. Shkolota riots. Something like oral-18. Attempts to destabilize regular ones. Suppress it hard, but it reappears. There are still nationalists and terrorists. So that...

[Xnumx vis]

In Ukraine, in 2013, there was also a boom in the economy .. People did not heal badly. Earned less or less with low prices for food and utilities. Rocked the country. . Found a crack in the power structures and ruined the country. It would be desire and money, but they would find traitors!

[Blackmokona]

The economic growth of Ukraine in 2013, zero percent, in 2012 0,2%. This is not growth, but laughter. Given inflation, the dollar is a recession.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: BlackMokona

This is not growth, but laughter.

Maybe .
I judge by how people lived .. But they did not live badly! It is about the standard of living in Ukraine. Most had jobs and livelihoods. Now the pipe is the thing.

[Blackmokona]

So the war is on

[conservative]

war? they even renamed ATU - but they still didn’t call war.

Only users call this war.

For the rest, this is a civil kneading on both sides of which are Ukrainians

[Blackmokona]

On both sides are Ukrainians? Say it in the DNI

[cost]

In vain you laugh. Good powerful mobile weapon, especially against DOT

[san4es]

In the Chinese army there are special units of flamethrowers, whose task is to support the motorized infantry in the course of hostilities.
A short video of the flamethrower application can be viewed here.

Jul 27 2012 year
Chinese collective farmers turned to the authorities with a complaint about a huge hornet's nest that grew on a tree. Those called up the troops.

[MoJloT]

Severely, Chelyabinsk approves!

[vindigo]

Just a blaster from a science fiction movie. Our flamethrowers would blow up the whole tree with their volume-detonating ammunition.

[Aleks2048]

And nobody cares about greenpeace ...
And right ... Chelyabinsk approves ....

[Imobile]

The Chinese army is so huge that you can find in it armed with clubs, sabers ...

[MPN]

Yes, his feedback is not weak, judging by the video .. I didn’t even think ...

[Rader]

The jet flamethrower, although an archaic weapon, is very scary. It has a tremendous demoralizing effect on the enemy. In China, there are enough "elements" who want to secede or proclaim whatever the local autonomous "caliphate", but against such elements you can give in to the light. The Chinese are far from fools, and understand this, and therefore do not write off old weapons.

[Phil77]

Quote: Rader

The jet flamethrower, although an archaic weapon, is very scary. It has a tremendous demoralizing effect on the enemy. In China, there are enough "elements" who want to secede or proclaim whatever the local autonomous "caliphate", but against such elements you can give in to the light. The Chinese are far from fools, and understand this, and therefore do not write off old weapons.

That's why the flamethrowers were not taken prisoner. Immediately at the expense.

[2329 Carpenter]

Or, instead of demoralization, on the contrary, resistance increased and the fire focused even more on the figure with odious tanks and a scribble in his hand.
And God forbid to fall into the paws of others ...

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Kloun

It seems that the Chinese are preparing for a “color revolution”. The population is huge and there will not be enough riot police for everyone .. Maybe I’m cruel, but the United States will try to destroy China from the inside and don’t spare money for it .. Just remember the wave of such unrest that swept precisely in Eurasia. .

And the thought here is, what ...
But Xinjiang Uyghuria is our wound. We will pick it for China ourselves. We will not give it to the states.

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Phil77

Quote: Rader

The jet flamethrower, although an archaic weapon, is very scary. It has a tremendous demoralizing effect on the enemy. In China, there are enough "elements" who want to secede or proclaim whatever the local autonomous "caliphate", but against such elements you can give in to the light. The Chinese are far from fools, and understand this, and therefore do not write off old weapons.

That's why the flamethrowers were not taken prisoner. Immediately at the expense.

Not right away.
“Immediately” is the dream of a flamethrower, or sniper, when captured.

[Archivist Vasya]

A flamethrower is a topic, and why it was considered incomprehensible ...

[vindigo]

Probably because of the short range. While you reach the enemy ... It's the same as hand-to-hand combat.

[Archivist Vasya]

50 meters then? Well, long arms)), some of the small arms at such distances smear ...

[Blue fox]

When combing the ruins of buildings, cellars, caves, tunnels, kyariz, long-term field fort facilities and special fort facilities, there is no price for a backpack flamethrower.

[Sergey Ui]

For someone suitable, watch the video from the Caucasus, the security forces are behind the fence, about 20 meters to the house, the flamethrower crashed and that's it.

[Royalist]

To some extent - archaic, but in some cases it is very good

[Royalist]

Quote: 30 vis

In Ukraine, in 2013, there was also a boom in the economy .. People did not heal badly. Earned less or less with low prices for food and utilities. Rocked the country. . Found a crack in the power structures and ruined the country. It would be desire and money, but they would find traitors!

That's for sure: those who want to get "thirty silver coins" are always there

[vonWolfenstein]

The article is about a flamethrower, and most of the comments are again about Ukraine, geopolitical conspiracies, and arrogant Saxons. And why did the PLA not abandon the seemingly outdated knapsack flamethrower?

[gukoyan]

If you didn’t refuse, it means a very effective thing, only a pity the ammunition is very limited ...

[vnord]

Quote: BlackMokona

Why do they happen color, with their economic growth?

China is not homogeneous according to nationality, they are just one person for us and all Chinese .. By the standard of living there are still those contrasts ... There is practically no social, you can forget about pensions and retirement age .....
And read on the Internet topics about Uyghurs, Tibet, etc.

[vnord]

Quote: BlackMokona

The PRC has already begun, and pensions do not interfere with growth in any way, since it creates additional demand

You tell it to the Chinese

[gukoyan]

The article is about nothing ... The fact that knapsack flamethrowers are in the service of the Chinese army is a well-known fact, and I saw pictures about firing with them two years ago.

[Altona]

Quote: 30 vis

I judge by how people lived .. But they did not live badly! It is about the standard of living in Ukraine. Most had jobs and livelihoods.

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And then everything is like a Chinese flamethrower.