• deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    514·
    8 months ago

    Ask the crew of the CSS Hunley what water and shockwaves does to human bodies.

      • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, I would rather not ask either.

        Don’t ask what all that weight does to the running surfaces either. Some things it’s better to just not know.

        • Mikufan@ani.socialOPEnglish
          261·
          8 months ago

          A modern tank is already about 70 metric tons, 3 or 4 more wont matter that much.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      There (shouldn’t) be any blast from the gun firing released inside the tank itself. So, you’ve got vibration that’ll pass through the water. It might increase that, but that’s not direct exposure to the blast.

      There’s still air around the muzzle. Maybe water makes up some of the distance, but there is still a buffer of compressable air in there.

      I’m not sure that it wouldn’t cause problems, but I’m not sure that it wouldn’t, either. I don’t think that it’d just be the “depth charge near people in the water” issue.

      EDIT: Though some artillery has that recoil-compensating mechanism where the breach moves back when the gun fires. I dunno whether that’s true of the main gun on an MBT, but if so, that might cause issues.

      googles

      Yeah, here’s an Abrams doing it. That might suck.

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=sC2ePKRvo9k