… pressure != explosion. Pressure in a confined space and the correct mixture ratio, diesel can ignite alone from pressure, that is not what we are seeing happen here. The fuel cannot ignite unless it is in the range of 0.6 to 7.5% fuel vapor in air by volume. That is straight from the datasheet, perhaps it would be good for you to take a look at: Gases - Explosion and Flammability Concentration Limits. 100% concentration of diesel will not explode, yet alone ignite. Basic chemistry.
Existence of a ‘vacuum’ != explosion. Upon penetration, a small amount of air will enter the tank from the opening do to the newly formed hole, that is by far not enough to make a difference unless the tank is <1% fuel loaded. The mixture ratio is key to understanding when something can actually explode, penetration in a tank without the correct mixture will not explode. Again, it is the shockwaves that are dangerous. Fuel is dense, all that fuel forced into a direction will result in a large force. See here: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxbsZ1JyTErqb85Chr6zxgPF3mpLMT9lzA. The effect is as we can see, the shockwave ripping apart the fuel tank. There is a fire started from the vapors interacting with the hot shell fragments. It is not an explosion in the sense of a bomb detonating; it is massive shockwave blowing it apart and the spilled out fuel catches fire.
In terms of gameplay purposes, it would be more accurate to have a conical damage cone in the direction of penetration with a large angle spalling. The damage cone would kill crew members in it. So if you shoot a fuel tank from the side, we would not expect a ‘fuel explosion’ as the shockwave is outward and not in the crew compartment. If it is shot towards the crew compartment, we would expect dead crew, modules, and most likely dead tank. This same effect should also be on NATO tanks unless they actually have a baffle system in the fuel tank.
Yes. My focus was on diesel since that is what Chinese tanks use. Other fuels I would need to take a look at the datasheet for to see if it is different. Regardless, my point stands that gaijin needs to remodel fuel tank explosions to be more accurate and not solely turn off or on the effects based on if the fuel tank has any armor by it.
So you want russian mbts to suck even more? It just needs one single shot to kill them 90% of the time , USSR 10.3 is nothing but getting curbstomped by Leopard2a4s and type 90 fuji
If i get a side kill shot on one, hitting it right in the ammo, it should not be able to turn its turret and return fire. It makes no sense at all. It’s pretty ironic because it happened to me a few times in the Indian T-90 which was too slow to reverse back into cover so I died.
if you cant read and understand my words or cant watch any pictures ,then you shouldnt write any words about chinese mbts bugs here.if you think chinese mbts fuel tank has no bias bug issue than other nations you can show your evidence.
there are many vedios show that chinese fuel tank wont get exploded even by shoot through by apfsds.but gaijin just ignore all bug reports and keep saying there is no any bug on chinese mbts fuel tank this rediculous high explode possibility,while compare with usa/germany/russian black hole effect eater fuel tank .
i know it,but i said,everyone fuel tank in chinese mbts is same easy to get exploded as ler2 only one under crews feet.every one.Do you know how many fuel tanks chinese mtbs have?its 3-5,means if ler2 get 20% dead on fuel tank while shoot that under feet fuel ank,chinese mbts is 100%,since fuel tank with nuclear bombs inside is everywhere in chinese mbts.ler2 other fuel tank are not high possibility explode as that under feet one.i have played 500 game on ler2 and 4000 on ztz99 s ,i know it very clearly
ture,and gaijin always choose the worst data for chinese mbts if they cant get enough data for chinese mbts.that is a very unusual thing in war thunder.if this naiton bias thing happened to french or italian ,they will cry every day and night.But it is in chinese mbts,so no one cares.
but chinese mbts use it,and there are many vedios to show chinese mbts fuel tanks have many anti fire or explode things inside it,how can chinese make worse tanks when we get total a t72 ,we know russian mbts more than russian.from we improve russian mbts mobility to ztz99a or vt4a1 one you can clearly see it.But gaijin just make chinese mbts fuel tank explode possibility extremly high ,i nearly get 99% dead if fuel tank get hit,even i already golden my mbts crews.How can chinese mbts get 10 time higher dead possibility than russian one.i played over 500 on t80u,i never feel so ridiculous high fuel tank explode possibility,even without any crew grinded to silver or even gold.If there is no bias on chinese mbts,that is just impossibile.No more need to say chinese mbts in reality very know fuel tank need anti explode system,they even made a vedio specially to tell us how they do this to decrease fuel tank explode possibility ,and that vedio is also on PLA official youtube vedios
sad thing is this thing is happening on every chinese top tier MBTs,including ZTZ99A WZ1001E VT4A1,and no one care chinese mbts is so easy to get fuel tank exploded with nearly 99% possibility.While russian is just 50% even lower.
And no one care chines sucks,every one know lerc2 under feet fuel tank easy to exploded or italy protection sucks,no one care about chinese protections also nerf tons and also sucks.its survivity on side shoot is even much worse than italian C1.They always show you how big front armor is and how high ERAs protection is,but they wont show you how big gun part is and how easy to one shoot kill any chinese mbts by aim at gun or front guide wheel or any places of side.And all chinese mbts side is very very huge.And no any side ERA,while they do have in reality and gaijin keep deny these bug reports.
