Incendiary device
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Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires. They may destroy structures or sensitive equipment using fire, and sometimes oper
Loading a Mark 77 napalm bomb onto a US Marine Strike Fighter Squadron F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during a June 1993 training exercise
A 17th century fire or light ball from Veste Coburg, Germany
An incendiary bomb dropped on Southend-on-Sea in 1916
Remains of a metal canister from a thermite incendiary bomb dropped by a Zeppelin on London during World War I
Early thermal weapons
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Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the ancient and post-classical periods.
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning
Normans use torches to fire the wooden keep on a motte at Dinan, 1064, Bayeux Tapestry
Chinese fire ships from the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript, 1044, Song dynasty
Two fire arrows (crossbow bolts). Southern Germany, ca. 15th century, with preserved incendiary mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, sulphur and textile on the shaft.