Hot what is it

[Mark]

[LeeEnfield]

 

 

Errr, ......................Flamethrower.........:cool2:

Looks to be on an american tank................( wheres the 'dunno' smile gone ?/)

[GoranWC51]

M48 tank with flame thrower, picture probably taken somewhere in Vietnam.

 

As always,

 

Goran N

[Tony B]

Hell of a way of getting rid of weeds. Flame throwers were used in WW2 Korea and Vietnam. Britsh also used them, nasty weapons but very effective at persuading troops in bunkers to desist.

[Great War truck]

Fairly certain that it was taken in Korea. Oh yes, it is an M48 as well.

 

Tim (too)

[AlienFTM]

My guess was M47 in Vietnam (mainly because I cannot honestly remember there being a bulge in the turret wall of the M48 to cater for the hatch on the turret LHS as we see it).

 

I'd be prepared to bet that flame tanks in Vietnam were M47s because, having developed a flame tank on an M47 chassis, there wouldn't be a great deal of loss of function and no need to prepare a flame kit for the M48, which would primarily be a gun tank (though I am having serious doubts about whether the Americans even took M48s to Vietnam, when I'd guess the M60 was available).

 

And I cannot recall ever seeing M47s / M48s in Korea. But as usual, I haven't bothered checking so it's all wild conjecture.

[Mark]

This was badged as Vietnam if that helps at all ??

[AlienFTM]

Curiously, shortly after posting my previous yesterday, a colleague and I looked at his Big Book Of Pictures of Tanks or whatever it was called and I explained some of the technical errors and minutiae to him, where we found an M48 and compared the turret bulge with the pic above and it would appear I was right. There is a tiny amount of turret bulge to accommodate the hatch on the left-hand side of the M48, but in this pic the bulge goes practically to the turret ring.

[AlienFTM]

Funnily enough when I think about it, on the few occasions I played Battlefield Vietnam, ISTR the tank available was an M47.

 

Takes cover from incoming shoot-down.

[Adrian Barrell]

It's an M67 Flamethrower. Essentially an M48 with a flame gun.

 

M47 was not used by the US Army in action and looks nothing like the M48 from that angle.