Molotov Cocktail

We had battle camp at Vogelsang and one of the lectures we had was to make and chuck these things. Great fun and the tank target got well plastered! A friend of mine had too short a fuse and the bottle went up in his hand - he had a marvellous scar and burn!

The british tried giving these to the home guard in a slightly modified way,

it was called the phosphorus bomb half a pint of petrol, some water, a piece of rubber(disolved in the petrol and made it sticky), and a lump of white phosphorus(burns on contact with air) were placed in a bottle and a stopper closed the bottle.

to use shake and throw,

the home guard hated these and hid them away.
they still turn up in people's cellers/garden sheds/old anderson shelters, and are still very dangerous.

The Russians used these well against even the biggest tanks. They would throw them on the engine louvres which had the desired effect.
The cheapest Anti Tank weapon ever

There were a number of ill-considered weapons relating to gasoline bombs. In the pic, French soldiers have a device which used spring power - rather like a PIAT - to toss gasoline bombs. There were others, but this was what I could find on short notice.

Of course, the concept has bad idea written all over it. If the crew has a cracked or unusually thin bottle, it could easily break on launch, making a long day for the crew!

The best of the genre mixed a little sulfuric acid in the gasoline and put a certain chemical powder into an envelope which was taped to the bottle. When the bottle shattered, the acid reacted with the chemical, igniting the gasoline. Much safer than the wick system.

(it seems a bad idea to name the chemical)

Other useful information for gasoline bombers was to never use pop bottles. The glass was thick since they were intended to we washed and reused. Those would often bounce unbroken which gave the intended target good opportunity to fire on the bomber.

My fire weapon of choice? Napalm ! SW

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This is the pic I mentioned with French soldiers using a spring-loaded gasoline bomb thrower. SW

**edit** Looking closely, those are probably not gasoline bombs - I uploaded the wrong pic, but this looks a lot like the glass bomb thrower.

The Guidetti mortar fired from the equipment you posted @NebrHogger