@Cpt_Bel_V @Azinfriit M1A1 & M1A2 tank blow out panels on ammunition stowage - YouTube
the doors have never malfunctioned ( as far as i know of ) . even if the doors are penetrated the crew still has a high chance to survive since the fire extinguisher system will be activated ADA517470.pdf (dtic.mil)
Develop a better reading comprehension my man. A percentage of failure simply means it wont work 100% of the time. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. The same logic applies to seatbelts and airbags.
And since you’re having a hard time grasping this concept, here’s the internals of an Abrams that could not be saved by the blowout panels:
I reiterate, it’s not alien tech and will SOMETIMES fail. Thinking otherwise is not scientific thought, it’s just faith.
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once again, you have failed to provide any SOURCE STATING THE BLOW OUT PANELS HAVE FAILED. a Picture does not show why the inside of the tank was burned.
Oh, what source would satisfy Mr. “Blowout panels never fails”? The ones straight from the Pentagon or the ones straight from the fog of war happening right now? Do you really think the video that shows a SINGLE test made to impress MIC contractors is a valid source?
Anyone with basic engineering knowledge know that there’s no such a thing as a 100% fail proof device.
Not sure if you’re cynical or delusional. Not a good look either way.
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You need to cite the example and context, preferably with a link or two of the instance you are referencing.
AFAIK M1s are 100% in protecting their crews from ammo fires. That does not mean that the tanks didn’t burn up ultimately. That isn’t what its for. It it to enhance crew survivability. Which WT uses surviving crew count to determine vehicle destroyediness.
This goes both ways, you have also to prove that the crew survivability is 100%. None of you did.
Fog of war and the secrecy of the tests made during the trials to adopt the tank make it near impossible to the average man.
What’s left for us? The millenia old notion that’s there’s no perfect mechanical contraption. Crazy right?
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So… you can’t support your argument. Got it.
my guy the U.S Military documented every single abrams ever hit, burned, or removed from combat, not one of these reports ever stated" AMMO BLOWOUT DOOR FAILURE " i don’t care what picture you show or what you " claim to think " happened. because you have ’ NO PROOF " its like me saying a colt 45 could blow up a t90ms by shooting down its barrel, and i should a random image of a destroyed T-90
My argument is simple: No mechanical device is fail proof and that does not mean they are bad.
There’s no need to go further than that.
The argument of you two is simply faith based, since you believe in the “perfection” of a material object. It’s simply idolatry, faith.
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The military of the same government that ordered all media of Abrams being defeated to be removed from Meta social media?
The government that is interested in selling those vehicles abroad?
Of couse they will report no losses lmao.
Please.
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Or it could be that we actually know what we are talking about.
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you gonna post a source ?
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A cynical fella like you would know that this won’t be found in the MSM, but anyay.
“Protection of business and company image” lmao.
Very transparent of the US ain’t it?
That wasn’t your original question. We were talking about the Meta censorship that happened earlier this year. Nice bait and switch though, proving once again that you have cynical motives.
But be my guest. I guess you’re adamant on being a zealot about a piece of engineering, worshipping it like something divine.
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As Exocetta mention In case of ammo door getting hit it rather depends on the size of the hole in the wall / doors between the crew and ammo compartments. A little hole might throttle the flow of gases from the ammo rack into the turret crew compartment enough to let the blow-off panels do their job, but any hole of sufficient size (for example LOSAT missile) will dump the heat and blast onto the crew compartments for sure.
As for the case where entire ammo rack being blow up. we did have some case like that but it not an instant explode as it was burned for a while before entire ammo rack being blow up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/16ddje1/m1a2_abrams_belonging_to_13acr_destroyed_by_ied/
It has been told that all crew lived and tank was recover.
my guy wtf is meta censorship? and why would it matter if its being reported on all media platforms
If you don’t know what the company Meta is, you must live under a rock. And it matters for the context of that period of time, which in case you don’t know, it’s not the same as today’s.
But I don’t expect you to know what “context” is, since you don’t have object permanence and also by the fact that your notion of percentage is only the values of 0% or 100%.
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