Incendiary weapon
An incendiary weapon is a weapon whose primary purpose is to set fire to materials or objects or to inflict burns on people through the effects of flame, heat, or a combination of these. Incendiary weapons use incendiary agents as the actual means of incendiary .
The use of many such incendiary weapons in military conflicts is regulated by the International Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, which cause excessive suffering or which can act indiscriminately .
See also
- Aerosol bomb
- Fire balls
- Incendiary bomb
- Falarika
- flamethrower
- Greek fire
- Hand flame cartridge
- Hatrenian fire
- Carcass (bullet)
- Molotow cocktail
- napalm
- Pitch wreath
- Phosphorus bomb
- Pyr automaton
- RPO (rocket launcher)
- Stick incendiary bomb
- Stinker
- Storm spike
- Thermit grenades / bombs
- TOS-1 Buratino
Web links
- Law to the Convention of October 10, 1980 on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons ... ( BGBl. 1992 II p. 958 )