/k/ - Weapons

>>548567

>take SCUBA tank

>cut open, refill with fuel/oxidizer mixture

>spend a fuckton of money getting the tank reapproved, jacking up your price

>attach a nozzle

>???

>profit

>>548569

Pretty much this.

If you really wanted to make a business selling flamethrowers, you'd sell them as 'do it yourself' kits containing everything but the pressure vessels.

On the design of the 'wand', there's two sticking points. First, the valve needs to be at the tip, separate from the trigger, to avoid 'dribble'. Second, some method of primary ignition must be provided. Military models tended to use pyrotechnic charges for robustness, but for a hobby project, a propane burner would suffice.

I have a question regarding artillery and thermobaric weaponry. Has there been cases where someone has saturated the battlefield with flammable fuel with artillery, and then just setting the whole fucking battlefield on fire in one go with the aim to burn out all the oxygen in battlespace? NBC protection won't do dick if there is no breathable oxygen available.

>>548711

While metal as fuck, that seems excessive and inefficient and Lockheed loves it when the military is excessive and inefficient, but since we're using artillery and not akbaring F-35s straight into the base I'm assuming we're going for a reasonable strategy. If you have artillery, and are willing to saturate the battlefield with fuel, why not just saturate the battlefield with HE shells?

>>548714

>why not just saturate the battlefield with HE shells?

Because fire and thermobarics are the universally accepted weapons for sending the 'fuck you and the whore you crawled out of' message.

>>548567

>it is time to design a Flamenwerfer™

Do you mean a 1940s vintage napalm squirtgun, or a thermobaric rocket? If it's the first just mass produce something based on the Handflampatrone or however the Krauts insist on spelling it it's basically a hand operated piston shaped like a pistol and filled with incendiaries. If you want the more modern rocket based design there's a few dozen options out there. More information for its intended use would be helpful here.

>>548727

I mean the back-pack-dont-get-shot-or-explodey kind, yknow like the ones in kawadutee, basically a new version of that

>>548869

>basically a new version (of the M2/LPO-50)

But, why?

>>548869

A small fire extinguisher and two medium ones will work for what you want, the problem being if you're trying to sell em you do need to have them recertified and you'll have to build a frame to hold the bloody cans in as well. Another thing to note is you'll have lots of fun trying to recreate the WW2/Nam era goo the fuckers spray.

>>548891

Because someone wants others to enjoy the wonders of spraying a 75yrd jet of go fuck yourself.

>>548896

>Because someone wants others to enjoy the wonders of spraying a 75yrd jet of go fuck yourself.

Why not just fire a rocket that makes everything within a 50yrd radius of the impact point burn while it's being crushed?

>>548900

because I want to be able to water my gooks the way I would water my garden.

Also, rockets with explodey fire = alphabet visit

id rather not have my dog get shoa'd and my shit taken, up to and including my freedom.

not to mention that the rocket you describe, from what I can imagine, would be fuckhuge, and thus impractical

>>548900

Rockets are one thing and probably best left to the ivans upstairs with their mad writings. Besides that there isn't anything better than reenacting the pacific front in a really really dry woodland.

>>548902

Granted building a TOS 'Heavy Flamethrower' would be a little impractical, and probably end up with you getting v& very swiftly- even if it would be pretty fucking awesome. An RPO-Bumblebee is definitely man portable though, and as a one shot disposable launcher much easier to build than a vehicle mounted MLRS. It would also allow you to water your Gooks from just over a mile away.

Can a freezer be built? Som e thing that shoots liquid that freezes enemies to death.

>>548939

There's liquid nitrogen, but it tends to bounce off of surfaces like human skin unless you apply lots of pressure or lots of quantity (which is why you can put liquid nitrogen in your mouth as a cool science trick without injury, but if you swallow it your esophagus will pressurize it and freeze your internals).

>>548953

What about liquid nitrogen mixed with water?

Can lava be weaponized?

>>548962

You'd either clog the system if the water freezes too soon, or you'd just be hitting the enemy with blocks of ice solidifying mid-air. **Unless you mean dousing the enemy in water and then liquid nitrogen, but at that point it would be more efficient to use huge quantities of the latter.

>>548939

>>548962

In general you can't create "freeze rays," because cold is a negative value. There's no particle that causes cold, cold isn't an energy you can reflect, because cold is just the absence of heat.

>>548988 Heil

Can lava be weaponized?

>>548998

>Can lava be weaponized?

As in artificially produced lava? Or somehow cracking the Earths crust underneath the feet of your enemies?

>>548998

>Can lava be weaponized?

Best Korea commando planting atomics inside mountain in yellowstone? I like the idea.

>>548988

>>548962

You might be able to create a freeze ray using cooled and pressurized purified water in some kind non-oxidizing container, you could make amorphous ice.

>>549037

Might as well replace the bucket with a tire and go full nigger-tier.

>>549001

Melt rock and pour it over a gook.

>>548988

You could create a "freeze ray" by spraying someone with a material undergoing an endothermic chemical reaction. It would just be shooting them with a liquid or particle solid though, not an actual ray.

>>549067

It's a toy, basically a cool (temperature) blowtorch.

>>549067

That's not a flamethrower, it's just an inefficient blowtorch.

>>549073

>>549067

That being said, Musk is a good fundraiser assuming he's making a profit off these things.*

Imagine a newtonian liquid propeller that shoots some kind of corrosive or toxic chemical at high speeds, to that on impact it destroys the target, but then immediately after it turns into liquid that seeps through the cracks and corrodes.

Can icebergs be weaponized? I read about an ice ship design in ww2.

>>549108

You mean non-Newtonian, right?

>>549109

>build pykrete boat

>stuff it with explosives

>ram into enemy ship

>???

>profit

>>549067

It's literally a propane torch for burning weeds and grass along fence lines put into the shell of an airsoft gun. Go look it up, people even tracked down the exact model of airshit window dressing they used.

A $30 blowtorch and a $20 shell was sold for $500 to 20,000 people. I used to think Musk was a con artist, now I know he's a scam artist.

>>549122

It was sold as part of a fundraiser to raise money for hyperloops, anon.

Y'know, crowdfunding but you actually get physical shit form it. See the $20 hats they sold right before the blowtorch.

>>549120

Yes I mean't non-newtonian. Imagine

>>549045

Why not melt the Gook and pour it over another Gook?

>>549145

You cannot melt flesh

>>549174

If you applied enough temperature in an anoxic environment it wouldn't be able to burn - and everything melts when it gets hot enough.

>>549174

>>549180

Failing that, you could just put the gooks through thermal depolymerization and turn them into napalm.

>>549180

Does wood melt?

>>549265

Theoretically, yes. The problem is keeping it from igniting before you hit ~3500 degrees C.

>>549265

>>549278

You are away you can make it melt by dissolving it right?