The F3, and it's slightly smaller brother, the F3C, are BlasTech's first expedition into the manufacture of flamethrowers in over a hundred years. Being of fairly modern design, they both use a small tank of fuel that is attached to the underside of the "barrel", and connected via a threaded socket to a pump housed before the standard pistol grip. The F3 is the larger of the two, and is fitted with a carrying handle/sight assembly, a heavy insulated forearm and a full shoulder stock, along with vertically mounted fuel bottle. The F3C is smaller, about the same size as the E11 blaster rifle, and lacks the shoulder stock and carrying handle, instead fitted with a LED "bead"-type sight at the muzzle and a horizontally mounted fuel bottle, eliminating the need for a forearm. It is small enough to be fitted under the barrel of some of the larger blaster rifles, such as the BlasTech A280 or EKX-10, or the Merr-Sonn Tracker 16, but not the newer, carbine sized weapons such as the Stormtrooper One or the E11. [stats for the F3C appear in brackets]
type: flame rifle [flame carbine] skill: Flamethrower: rifle [carbine] availability: 2 F,R,X cost: 700 (25) [500 (20)] range: 3-5/7/10 [3-4/5/7] area of effect: 1m [1/2m] fire rate: 1 [1/2] ammunition: 15 [10] damage: 5D+1 [5D], both do 3D damage for the next five roundsReturn to the Armoury