Naft (Naphtha Incendiary Weapons) glyph Naft was the naphtha-based incendiary weapon of medieval Muslim armies, distinct from Byzantine Greek fire though built on the same petroleum chemistry. Specialist troops called naffatun, protected by thick fireproof suits, threw small copper vessels of burning naphtha onto enemy troops, siege engines and fortifications, a capability the Ayyubid and later Mamluk armies used heavily in siege warfare against the Crusader states. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Class (category)Flamethrower / Incendiary Weapon 1 Classification
Service Status Weapon ClassIncendiary weapon (naphtha-based) 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Greek fire
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1. Wikipedia: Greek fire
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Naphtha was also used by the Abbasids in the 9th century, with special troops, the naffatun, who wore thick protective suits and used small copper vessels containing burning oil, which they threw onto the enemy troops.
- Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
- Weapon class (siege-engine) is a pre-industrial/melee weapon type by its own nature per the entity's own sourced description text; not carried in current active military service.
- Correction: a naphtha-based incendiary weapon, not a siege engine itself.
- Operated By: Byzantine Army, infobox used_by/operator field: 'Byzantine Empire'
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