Howard Holey Hail
2010-11-01 22:51:43 UTC
My only experience with Molotov Cocktails is what I see in movies, and
somehow I get the feeling that Hollywood doesn't just make documentaries.
I've seen Molotov Cocktails in the movies and on TV do everything from blow
up tanks to spray cute little flames which can be doused by brushing them
off with your hands or patting them down with your blazer.
How effective are they, really? If they're so great, why didn't armies
make catapults and shoot them by the gross back in 1942? Or maybe modify
them so that Patton could shoot gasoline bombs from his Shermans back in
1944? And if they're so ineffective, why are they so famous? Is the
straight dope that they worked well if you had the engineering expertise
of Soviet Russia teaching people how to make them, but they weren't much
good in the hands of a typical radicalized 1969 Anthro major?
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somehow I get the feeling that Hollywood doesn't just make documentaries.
I've seen Molotov Cocktails in the movies and on TV do everything from blow
up tanks to spray cute little flames which can be doused by brushing them
off with your hands or patting them down with your blazer.
How effective are they, really? If they're so great, why didn't armies
make catapults and shoot them by the gross back in 1942? Or maybe modify
them so that Patton could shoot gasoline bombs from his Shermans back in
1944? And if they're so ineffective, why are they so famous? Is the
straight dope that they worked well if you had the engineering expertise
of Soviet Russia teaching people how to make them, but they weren't much
good in the hands of a typical radicalized 1969 Anthro major?
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