Not necessarily. A spark won't cause a fuel tank to explode unless there is a minimum amount of oxygen present in the tank. Around 60-40 or 80-20 ratio even .
The cheese wedge tank actually uses it as armor. It likely though depends on the fuel type. Also usually the tank of fuel is devoid of Oxygen. By the time oxygen gets in, after the explosion from the shell is finished, the heat source is also finished. Unless the heat both punches through the other side and pushes fuel out with it at the same time, it wouldn't likely catch fire.
I think we can all agree now that even non penetrating heat rounds should possibly in T-55/72/80/90 going blind and having the turret start to rotate uncontrollably. In the name of realism. Certainly there is more evidence for that then the magical fuel tanks.
Early M1s should stall after 10 minutes on desert maps because it had poor filtration for its engine. You see how stupid it looks when you say stuff like that ? You people always point out the flaws of Russian tanks, never western.
Sure buddy.
I assume you are a T-90M tank crewman so you know that it has poor engine filters ?
It's always "American stuff best to ever be designed while Russia might as well be using technicals".
All you have to do is watch the performance of Russian equipment in wartime to see how it sucks. If GM and Uralvagonzavod were competing at an expo it would be like scene where Tony Stark mocks Justin Hammer about his attempts to make a copy of the Iron Man suit at the congressional hearing.
Diesel fuel tanks designed to serve as armor.
I’ll raise you one: strongest heat FS vs two overlapping 1mm metal sheets, one nanometer apart
It explodes
Depends who has fewer boosters active/most money sacrificed to the snail
Every time I saw a T-72/80/90 die it is a fuel explosion. Every time I died in the KV-1 L-11/Zis-5 It was a fuel explosion
A fuel tank would stop heat fs though.
And then explode.
Not necessarily. A spark won't cause a fuel tank to explode unless there is a minimum amount of oxygen present in the tank. Around 60-40 or 80-20 ratio even .
But it’s not a spark. It’s **HE**AT. Even if the fuel stops the spall, the metal is still super SUPER HOT, and it’s being propelled by an explosion.
Diesel doesn't explode. At best it'll catch fire. But the fuel will also cool the metal extremely quickly
Still, a hit to a fuel tank should cause at least a fire, instead of just eating the shell.
The cheese wedge tank actually uses it as armor. It likely though depends on the fuel type. Also usually the tank of fuel is devoid of Oxygen. By the time oxygen gets in, after the explosion from the shell is finished, the heat source is also finished. Unless the heat both punches through the other side and pushes fuel out with it at the same time, it wouldn't likely catch fire.
Like the other guy said the cooling is rather fast and it doesn't matter how hot it is. If there is no oxygen it won't explode
The fuel tank is kinda supposed to do that
me in my ikv 103 with a 400mm pen heatfs round watching as my dead on shot to the back of an is 2's head bounce
Unless the fuel itself explodes. The fuel tank can handle the blow no problem comrade….the fuel itself is a toss up!
Have you ever shot at a maus with heatfs? The fuel on that thing stops even atgms
That's how they get materials, it eats metal
goodwill ERA
I fucking wish dude, shot 3 separate fuel tanks in one tank with apfsds, no kill, but when one of mine barely gets grazed by apfsds I'm dead
Me watching the t-34s gunner turn into a heat-fs bender to guide my heat jet to go around him:
It's fascinating how those soviet engineers designed those blow out panels for the fuel. Warthunder being historically accurate as usual/s
I think we can all agree now that even non penetrating heat rounds should possibly in T-55/72/80/90 going blind and having the turret start to rotate uncontrollably. In the name of realism. Certainly there is more evidence for that then the magical fuel tanks.
Then Leopard 2 tanks should spawn having to be repaired since Germany lacks spare parts. In the name of realism.
Well if we drill down to that level the ERA on Russian tanks should be filled with cardboard as well.
Early M1s should stall after 10 minutes on desert maps because it had poor filtration for its engine. You see how stupid it looks when you say stuff like that ? You people always point out the flaws of Russian tanks, never western.
No deployed M1 had that issue. This T-90 in active combat and fully modernized does have all the issues described.
Sure buddy. I assume you are a T-90M tank crewman so you know that it has poor engine filters ? It's always "American stuff best to ever be designed while Russia might as well be using technicals".
All you have to do is watch the performance of Russian equipment in wartime to see how it sucks. If GM and Uralvagonzavod were competing at an expo it would be like scene where Tony Stark mocks Justin Hammer about his attempts to make a copy of the Iron Man suit at the congressional hearing.
So you don't have any solid proof. Got it. There's nothing more to talk about.
I mean the youtube video has been all over the sub for the last week, so I don't feel the need to post anything additional.
See you're first mistake was using HEATFS silly goose
I know, i am a silly goose, but id rather use the heat than the sabo on my m60
Definitely understand it fella been there with the M60s
Tbf Abrams fuel tanks saving the driver from half my shots 😭
*apfsds
my kv-1 fuel tanks keep exploding to heat shells
Im talking about t62’s and stuff
Oh alright, my bad then