Flamethrower (attachment)

The Flamethrower is an underbarrel attachment for assault rifles, that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is available for purchase once the player has bought an assault rifle, and costs.

Mechanics
The Flamethrower lets out an invisible projectile traveling along the flame stream that causes 50 points of damage. Each projectile eats up 4% of fuel in the 100% tank, meaning 25 "shots" total. The flame projectiles reach out to about 12.5 meters before fading out, almost the range of shotguns. It carries one spare fuel tank, and if reloaded, it substitutes the whole tank, discarding any leftover ammo, unlike all other weapons. The Flamethrower can also be reload canceled. As with the other under-barrel attachments, the flamethrower's ammunition cannot be replenished via Scavenger. If the player is using Warlord, they can't equip any other attachment if the Flamethrower is equipped.

This is a good weapon if the player has a long-range weapon or has run out of ammo and is in a CQB situation.

Trivia

 * The pilot light activates when the Flamethrower is readied.
 * If the player reloads the Flamethrower before the canister is empty, they will lose whatever fuel was left in the canister. It was most likely added for balancing reasons.
 * The Flamethrower attachment will give some weapons a heat-shield. Interestingly, some of the heat shields are colored bright red. This can be clearly seen on the M16.
 * The Flamethrower attachment is not available on the Wii due to large amounts of lag occurring when it is used.
 * In the campaign, the flamethrower attachment is only found on AK-47s wielded by enemies, suggesting that it is Russian origin.
 * The Flamethrower is the only underbarrel attachment that does not appear in Nazi Zombies on Pack-A-Punched weapons.
 * The Flamethrower attachment uses the same reticle as the Wunderwaffe DG-2 and the Thundergun.
 * The Create-a-Class image shows the Flamethrower attached to an M16 heatshield.
 * If the player has the turned on the lighter for the flamethrower and switches to another underbarrel attachment for their other gun, the lighter's flame will still be there, this glitch is purely visual and has no gameplay effects.
 * On SOG, if an AK47 with the flamethrower attachment is picked up when the US Marines are climbing the hill after the napalm barrels part, it will have 100 ammo with 9 spares. If this is reloaded before it is finished, the spares will stay at 9 and the ammo will refill. This effectively means that it is impossible to run out of ammo for it.
 * The Flamethrower attachment is near useless for enemies that are using Flak Jacket Pro.

Videos
thumb|300px|left|A FAMAS with the underbarrel flamethrower

thumb|right|300px|Gameplay with the AUG w/ Flamethrower