Flamethrower really needs a buff

[HeinzBeans]

just spent ages grinding to finally unlock the flamethrower, only to be completely underwhelmed and disappointed by it. It is incredibly weak in its current state and really has no actual use atm. The range shoots about as far as a stream of piss, hostiles can easily kill you even if they are on fire, the ads turn speed is far too slow, and you have to aim to actually shoot it and cant hipfire.
At very close range which is the only range you can actually use it at you are pretty much outmatched by everything, this is very unrealistic and annoying.
All of these things combined makes it very weak.
It would genuinely hugely benefit from a few thing:

Increased range

Increased turn speed

The ability to hipfire

A suppression effect / the ability for hostiles to not aim and 1 tap you when they are literally melting alive

Maybe more black smoke to reduce visibility

And the ability for it to break more deployables

All of these things would actually make it useful and more akin to a real flamethrower. Now if you are worried about it being overpowered, so what?
In reality they where very powerful and terrifying at close range and also ingame it takes a huge amount of grinding to unlock and there is only 1 potential flamethrower per squad so it should be a powerful, usable weapon.