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Relevansi Penggunaan Flame Thrower di era Modern
BTW, baru-baru ini ada berita ketika PLA ground forces dengan People Armed Police menggunakan flame thrower untuk menghabisi kelompok bersenjata di daerah pegunungan di Xinjiang. Dari sudut pandang militer apakah flame thrower yang dibawa oleh infantry masih relevan dalam modern warfare. Apalagi dengan proliferasi persenjataan infantry support seperti Grenade launcher dan RPG serta berbagai macam tipe senjata infantry support regu lainnya sudah cukup terjangkau oleh pasukan dari negara-negara berkembang seperti Indonesia.
Flame thrower sendiri sudah lama digunakan terutama dalam bentuk kunonya yaitu Greek Fire yang digunakan untuk mempertahankan Byzantium dari serbuan pasukan Abbasiah dalam pertempuran di luar kota Konstantinople. Dalam PD I, Flame Thrower yang dibawa oleh infantry sudah mulai digunakan secara luas baik oleh pihak Kekaisaran Jerman maupun oleh pasukan Perancis dan Inggris. Lalu dalam perang Pasifik senjata ini menjadi pilihan utama US Marine Corps untuk membersihkan pill boxes dan spider hole pasukan IJA dan IJN yang berada di kepulauan Pasifik. Terakhir digunakan secara massal adalah ketika perang Vietnam terjadi. Zippo Tank menjadi pembawa flame thrower, begitu juga beberapa patrol boats vessel yang digunakan untuk membakar desa-desa Vietcong dipinggiran sungai. Setelah itu popularitas senjata ini seakan berkurang.
Dan kini apakah senjata ini bisa menjadi weapon of choices untuk menghadapi kelompok insurgents dan terrorist? dimana Indonesia sendiri masih kerap kali bermasalah dengan kelompok-kelompok bersenjata seperti ini.
Chinese police use a FLAMETHROWER on 'Muslim terror suspects' after grenades and tear gas fail to lure them from cave
Forces say they initially used grenades and tear gas to target attackers
Beijing says it is hunting 'foreign-led extremists' in Xinjiang
Rights groups say unrest due to controls on Muslim Uighurs
By BRENDAN COLE FOR MAILONLINE and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 13:14 GMT, 23 November 2015 | UPDATED: 21:59 GMT, 23 November 2015
Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 'terrorists' from a cave in the western Xinjiang region in the hunt for what Beijing has called foreign-led extremists.
China said security forces had recently killed 28 members of a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in Aksu in September.
In its account, which could not be independently verified, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said armed police had tracked the attackers into the mountains 'like eagles discovering their prey'.
On the hunt: Armed officers spent 56 days hunting a group Beijing says were 'Muslim terrorists'. This image is from September as they hone in on their targets
Burning: A flamethrower like one of these was reportedly used by People's Liberation Army soldiers to flush out suspected terrorists in Xinjiang. Here they are being used on China's border with Vietnam in early November
Armed operation: The special task force hunting the group just as they are about to storm the cave
The PLA Daily said the special forces used flash grenades and tear gas to force the attackers out of hiding, but when those methods failed, a senior officer said: 'Use the flamethrower'.
After that, the newspaper said the attackers came out at the troops wielding knives and that they were then 'completely annihilated'.
China's government says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists in energy-rich Xinjiang, on the border of central Asia, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years.
Rights groups say China has never presented convincing evidence of the existence of a cohesive militant group fighting the government.
Much of the unrest, they argue, is due to frustration at controls on the culture and religion of the Muslim Uighur people who live in Xinjiang.
Beijing vehemently denies accusations of rights abuses, though independent verification of the situation in Xinjiang is hard because of tight government controls on visits by foreign reporters.
In a statement, spokesman for exile group the World Uighur Congress Dilxat Raxit said: 'The Paris attacks gave China a political excuse to brazenly use flamethrowers to clamp down on unarmed Uighurs who have no just legal protection and who seek to avoid arrest.'
Senior Chinese officials have increasingly described the security challenges in Xinjiang as an important front in the global fight against terrorism.
Western nations, however, have been reluctant to cooperate in China's anti-terrorism campaign there, nervous about being implicated in possible rights abuses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3sOOYDwx4
Flame thrower sendiri sudah lama digunakan terutama dalam bentuk kunonya yaitu Greek Fire yang digunakan untuk mempertahankan Byzantium dari serbuan pasukan Abbasiah dalam pertempuran di luar kota Konstantinople. Dalam PD I, Flame Thrower yang dibawa oleh infantry sudah mulai digunakan secara luas baik oleh pihak Kekaisaran Jerman maupun oleh pasukan Perancis dan Inggris. Lalu dalam perang Pasifik senjata ini menjadi pilihan utama US Marine Corps untuk membersihkan pill boxes dan spider hole pasukan IJA dan IJN yang berada di kepulauan Pasifik. Terakhir digunakan secara massal adalah ketika perang Vietnam terjadi. Zippo Tank menjadi pembawa flame thrower, begitu juga beberapa patrol boats vessel yang digunakan untuk membakar desa-desa Vietcong dipinggiran sungai. Setelah itu popularitas senjata ini seakan berkurang.
Dan kini apakah senjata ini bisa menjadi weapon of choices untuk menghadapi kelompok insurgents dan terrorist? dimana Indonesia sendiri masih kerap kali bermasalah dengan kelompok-kelompok bersenjata seperti ini.
Chinese police use a FLAMETHROWER on 'Muslim terror suspects' after grenades and tear gas fail to lure them from cave
Forces say they initially used grenades and tear gas to target attackers
Beijing says it is hunting 'foreign-led extremists' in Xinjiang
Rights groups say unrest due to controls on Muslim Uighurs
By BRENDAN COLE FOR MAILONLINE and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 13:14 GMT, 23 November 2015 | UPDATED: 21:59 GMT, 23 November 2015
Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 'terrorists' from a cave in the western Xinjiang region in the hunt for what Beijing has called foreign-led extremists.
China said security forces had recently killed 28 members of a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in Aksu in September.
In its account, which could not be independently verified, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said armed police had tracked the attackers into the mountains 'like eagles discovering their prey'.
On the hunt: Armed officers spent 56 days hunting a group Beijing says were 'Muslim terrorists'. This image is from September as they hone in on their targets
Burning: A flamethrower like one of these was reportedly used by People's Liberation Army soldiers to flush out suspected terrorists in Xinjiang. Here they are being used on China's border with Vietnam in early November
Armed operation: The special task force hunting the group just as they are about to storm the cave
The PLA Daily said the special forces used flash grenades and tear gas to force the attackers out of hiding, but when those methods failed, a senior officer said: 'Use the flamethrower'.
After that, the newspaper said the attackers came out at the troops wielding knives and that they were then 'completely annihilated'.
China's government says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists in energy-rich Xinjiang, on the border of central Asia, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years.
Rights groups say China has never presented convincing evidence of the existence of a cohesive militant group fighting the government.
Much of the unrest, they argue, is due to frustration at controls on the culture and religion of the Muslim Uighur people who live in Xinjiang.
Beijing vehemently denies accusations of rights abuses, though independent verification of the situation in Xinjiang is hard because of tight government controls on visits by foreign reporters.
In a statement, spokesman for exile group the World Uighur Congress Dilxat Raxit said: 'The Paris attacks gave China a political excuse to brazenly use flamethrowers to clamp down on unarmed Uighurs who have no just legal protection and who seek to avoid arrest.'
Senior Chinese officials have increasingly described the security challenges in Xinjiang as an important front in the global fight against terrorism.
Western nations, however, have been reluctant to cooperate in China's anti-terrorism campaign there, nervous about being implicated in possible rights abuses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3sOOYDwx4
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