Schwerer-Flammpanzer auf Tiger I. +IMG

[ZakTheBuilder1]

The Germans, right from World War I, were fans of flamethrowers and understood the potential of them both in their direct military application for clearing an enemy position as well as for their psychological effect. Various German tanks in World War II were trialed with flamethrowers, although some are better known than others. One of these projects that is mostly forgotten and was never realized in a vehicle was the fitting of a heavy flamethrower into the hull of a Tiger I,

"Hitler ordered Maj.Gen. Thomale to fit the flamethrower system to a turretless Tiger I with the second idea of increasing the thickness of the armor on the front. Quite how much additional armor was meant to be added is not clear nor how it was to be done, but perhaps something akin to the method used on the Ferdinand/Elephant is the best approximation as to which would have been adopted. The Sturmtiger was similarly up-armored with an extra 50 mm plate, which suggests the frontal armour of the Schwerer-Flammpanzer auf Tiger I could have been increased to around 150 mm across the front, a lot less than Hitler might have wanted but certainly a significant improvement."

[HauptmannHorst]

What was the volume of the flamethrower?

[ZakTheBuilder1]

The size ?

[HauptmannHorst]

The size ?

Yes... size, range, gallons per minute.. datas, facts, digits

[Jasondunkel]

is there a wiki link or something similar?

[ZakTheBuilder1]

Tank encyclopedia is the source
Also here is info about the flamethrower

"The new flame-system that was to be fitted to the Flammenlage auf Tiger I reverted back to using compressed nitrogen and special reduction valves (obtained from the Kriegsmarine) which raised the pressure output from the tanks. This meant that this new system had abandoned the motor-driven-pump system. In this way, the pressure of the system could be raised from 1.52 to 1.72 MPa (15 to 17 atmospheres) to 2.03 to 2.53 MPa (20 to 25 atmospheres). With this increased pressure, the system could deliver a jet of burning fuel out to a range of 120 to 140 metres. A pair of 400-litre fuel tanks* would be fitted on the inside (there was more room because no turret was required), providing enough fuel for 16 to 20 bursts, meaning each burst would use about 40 to 50 litres of fuel. At 2-3 seconds per burst, this means the system delivered about 20 litres per second.

The fuel was different to what had been used before. Koebe, when asked at the end of 1942 to design a long-range flamethrower for use on the Porsche-Maus, proved unable to develop a system with a range of more than 100 m. Even then it would have required a flame-nozzle (Spritzkopf) 22 mm wide and would have used 33 litres of fuel per second propelled by a 30 hp engine driving a pumping system."

[HauptmannHorst]

WOW

[ZakTheBuilder1]

Anymore questions

[ZakTheBuilder1]

Burn

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[ZakTheBuilder1]

Burn better

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[Shark guy 35]

Can you make it darker? And also add small fire to the end of the barrel so it is distinguishable?

[ZakTheBuilder1]

Its pretty dark but I'll do it and the fire

[ZakTheBuilder1]

I couldn't make it darker but the fire is there

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[ZakTheBuilder1]

It pretty distinguishable already with no turret

[Stratego (dev)]

i list this too as to be put in on disord