When this tank gets hit by a shell:
Why is there smoke coming out of your tank, Seymour?
Oh ho, no! That isn’t smoke, it’s steam! Steam from the steamed tanks we’re having! Mmm, steamed tanks!
Wait, so a shell hits a tank and it superheats the air inside? Is that real?
Only if you’re trying to prepare an unforgettable luncheon and are within view of the Aurora Borealis. /ncd
The water would heat up and boil slowly and eventually if there was a fire occuring on the outside of the tank.
If it is hit in an area which causes the tank’s armaments to explode into the crew cabin then yes you would have a Russian Instant Pot…
You can pee wherever/whenever you want.
Correction: you can no longer drink the water.
Bear Grylls has entered the chat
It’ll take awhile before even some dehydrated piss will cause dangerous levels in a tank full of water.
Was that really your first inclination?
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Don’t die of spall, but die extra quick of shockwaves transmitted through water.
put some weighted (i.e. neutrally buoyant) ballpit balls in the water to disperse the shockwave.
Simple solution: we’ll have a fishtank, but filled with air. Put it in the watertank to make the watertank mk. 2: the airwatertank tank
Love the emotional support fish
can drink the water
As a tank maintainer, this is the least credible part of the post.
Is it though? Technically, they can drink the water, but nobody said it would be a good experience to do so
✅ Can drink the water.
❎ Should drink the water.
random question: why are tank interiors painted white?
hide the cum stains
plausible…
better visibility, reflects what little light there is in the tank (i think)
I can’t wait to join the Army Diver Armored Division.
Maybe it’s a navy tank?
SONAR CONTACT BEARING 322, DEPLOYING ABRAMS.
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
COMRADE CAPTAIN, UNKNOWN AMERICAN CONTACT DIVING 50 METERS A SECOND AND TRACKS ARE CAVITATING.
I wanna be an ARMDIVARMDIV!
I’m not like an army guy, but I did get to ride around in a tank once, and based on that experience I’m in favor of this idea.
Everything was very hot inside the tank, the water will help with that a lot.
Eventually the water is just gonna start getting to boiling temperature and no one will notice because of the frog thing.
I know smth about this is fucking dumb, but no clue what. The added weight? The impracticality?
Air is a compressible fluid. Water is incompressible. Energy from shock waves will be transmitted from the hull to the crew in a much more efficient fashion.
Wait, explain that to an idiot please. Could the water pressure crush a person? It wouldn’t just go up?
Because water doesn’t compress it transfers any shockwaves straight through anybody who is in the water. This happens much faster than the water has time to move out of the way.
Sailors who are in the water after abandoning ship during naval battles are in extreme danger of dying if a bomb goes off close by.
So what exactly happens? The water moves into the person so fast it crushes them?
Not exactly. The shockwave propogates directly into your body. Basically, the energy transfer liquifies your internal organs.
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Since my answer seems to have been incorrect, can you help me understand how that’s different from being rapidly and thouroughly crushed by the water the soldier would be submersed in? The water is the medium of the shockwave, so the energy crushes you through the force propagated through the water. No?
For some reason my post wouldn’t post. Anyway, here’s a video demonstration https://youtu.be/W4DnuQOtA8E
It uses balloons filled with water and air and small firecracker explosions to show how different the pressures on your body would be (especially organs like lungs, digestive tissue, which would have air/gasses in them).
Thank you for this, wild stuff
Yup
This reply thread is the information I needed from this topic 👍
Ah, right.
Tank get hole, water go out hole
Early warning of Hullfailure from smaller penetrations. Success again
Big two stick energy.
Yeah, but then you’re left with a lighter, more agile tank. It’s a win-win!
And you get a hot tub from all of the heat! Awesome!
And the British version will be able to make tea much easier.
We don’t need emotional support fish, we need tank operator fish
the loader dolphin project was a failure
A fish tank, if you will
One bullet hits the body and the crew goes deaf.
Earplugs
Do they make those for lungs?
As a fun fact, tanks were really called that way because the British didn’t want the Germans to know what was being deployed in WW1 on the continental frontline.
That would be such a flex. You’re driving through the desert with you tank full of water and people around you are dying of dehydration.
*swimming through the desert in your tank
Well I swim through the desert in a tank with no name…
It felt good to be
out of the rainin the wet tank blob blob blob