Meet The German Flamethrower Tanks of WWII

As if Nazi war equipment wasn’t scary enough

(Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-219–0595–23 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

World War II saw the rise of the flamethrower tank. Instead of machine guns and cannons, these tanks swapped high explosive ammunition for jets of liquid flames. These tanks would rise in use and popularity throughout WWII and continued into future conflicts.