Ares Leviathan: Finest Hour
SST-31 Flamethrower
The SST-31 flamethrower is designed for CQC and bunker busting raids in the war against the "Cinnamon" drug being smuggled into the US. This weapon coincidentally was first used on the notorious Pumpkin Reapers gang on October the 31st. The gang was holding up in an old pumpkin patch where they kept caches of heavy weapons and a key place for producing the drug. Their field plan during an emergency, was to throw the drug making equipment into a hidden cellar (later discovered by forensic scientists), grab a weapon, and run and fight in the fields. Which was exactly what they did.
This posed a problem. It was obviously too dangerous to send a team into the high vegetation against men with M60s, RPGs and AK47s. Helicopters were ordered to fall back so they could not become targets for their RPGs. And they could not surround and close-in to the field, because not only could there be heavy casualties, but hostiles could even slip passed them if they wanted to.
The only option to prevent the most bloodshed was to use this weapon to set fire to the Southern and Eastern part of the field while cop cars waited patiently on the Western and Northern sides; flushing them out. They would either burn to death or flee to to the vehicles where they could be arrested.
Of the 48 or so people operating the drug plant, only 5 were killed and two severly injured. One was burned to death, one was severly burned but alive, one was shot in the shoulder and leg. The other four were shot to death as they ran out guns blazing. Everyone else surrendered and were promptly arrested.
SST-31 Flamethrower
The SST-31 flamethrower is designed for CQC and bunker busting raids in the war against the "Cinnamon" drug being smuggled into the US. This weapon coincidentally was first used on the notorious Pumpkin Reapers gang on October the 31st. The gang was holding up in an old pumpkin patch where they kept caches of heavy weapons and a key place for producing the drug. Their field plan during an emergency, was to throw the drug making equipment into a hidden cellar (later discovered by forensic scientists), grab a weapon, and run and fight in the fields. Which was exactly what they did.
This posed a problem. It was obviously too dangerous to send a team into the high vegetation against men with M60s, RPGs and AK47s. Helicopters were ordered to fall back so they could not become targets for their RPGs. And they could not surround and close-in to the field, because not only could there be heavy casualties, but hostiles could even slip passed them if they wanted to.
The only option to prevent the most bloodshed was to use this weapon to set fire to the Southern and Eastern part of the field while cop cars waited patiently on the Western and Northern sides; flushing them out. They would either burn to death or flee to to the vehicles where they could be arrested.
Of the 48 or so people operating the drug plant, only 5 were killed and two severly injured. One was burned to death, one was severly burned but alive, one was shot in the shoulder and leg. The other four were shot to death as they ran out guns blazing. Everyone else surrendered and were promptly arrested.