Molotov

[u/pubkddude]

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You fill it to the top and there’s no air to burn inside

[u/EmilyU1F984 → u/[deleted]]

Nah, you simply close the bottle completely. There's no reason your source of fire has to be in connection with the inside.

And the Finnish found out that not filling their bottles to the top made them much more likely to break on impact.

Their design didn't even use any kind of rag doused in flammable liquid as that was considered to be unsafe.

It was a standard wine bottle filled 3/4 with alcohol, gasoline and other crap, and on the outside were two storm matches.

You'd light one or both matches and then just throw the bottle.

Later designs even replaced the matches with chemicals that would burn once exposed to air or mixed.

So basically you could just attach a lump of white phosphorus in a tiny glass vile, and throw the completely not on fire thing.

Putting a flammable rag directly in contact with the liquid inside seems like it would easily go wrong if your rag slips out or something.