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.
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!
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...
It'll take awhile before even some dehydrated piss will cause dangerous levels in a tank full of water.
Is it though? Technically, they can drink the water, but nobody said it would be a good experience to do so
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
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put some weighted (i.e. neutrally buoyant) ballpit balls in the water to disperse the shockwave.
COMRADE CAPTAIN, UNKNOWN AMERICAN CONTACT DIVING 50 METERS A SECOND AND TRACKS ARE CAVITATING.
Gotta keep it sealed though if you don't want all those until-recently-internal organs to slosh out.
Isn't that good? It sounds like it's creating a shield? I'm pretty sure I'm right, I say ship it.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine
Eventually the water is just gonna start getting to boiling temperature and no one will notice because of the frog thing.
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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.
Not exactly. The shockwave propogates directly into your body. Basically, the energy transfer liquifies your internal organs.
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).
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.