The Greek Fire Flamethrower

The "Greek Fire" Flamethrower was a greatly feared naval weapon of the classical period, documented to have terrorized many major cultures including the Romans, the Moors and the Turks. Reconstructed here from ancient blueprints, the present demonstration illustrates that a weapon of this kind would originally have had a comparable level of fire-power with that of a Vietnam War era Napalm Canister; the "Greek Fire" agent itself - a cocktail of naptha and other inflammatory chemicals - proving to be so effective that it burns even while underwater.