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    ArgusEye reacted to ArgusEye in BR350A and B HE fuse and Pzgn39 HE fuse   
    Where do you get this ridiculous twaddle? The air pulse from being displaced by a round coming into the tank is slightly *less* than outside of the tank (after armour it's slower) and it's rather sub-lethal even there. Cartwheeling doesn't happen at the scale typical for tanks, and as for vaporizing anything... I want some of what you're smoking.

    Flash fire kills by burns if it is not going high-order. That's one of the uncomfortable facts tankers have to live with. Thence the oft-heard memories of tankers screaming as they burn to death. The amount of heat from even a single 75mm propellant charge is enough to heat the entire inside of the tank to flesh searing levels, but the pressure doesn't build up because the propellant isn't properly enclosed. The deflagration speeds up when the pressure goes up, and it goes exponentially. If the pressure builds enough to kill the crew the chance becomes very slim that it will not explode to high order levels and just blows up the entire tank. The mechanism is illustrated clearly in this Syrian video:
    After colliding with a tank the round will have transferred all the shock it's going to transfer, and if it doesn't damage the tank, the tank is going to rock a little. The physical shock to the crew will typically be about similar to firing their own main gun. Detonating kilo's of TNT just outside will really give a nasty shockwave, which will -at least- knock the breath out of your lungs, blow sight blocks in, and stall the engine.
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