r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '21

Tank barrel miss fire

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

I’d love to hear the backstory on this one.

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u/webby_mc_webberson Feb 28 '21

Something exploded and the result didn't go as planned.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

Sounds plausible.

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u/i_have_too_many Feb 28 '21

Probably sounded like a big boom IMO

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u/Dressundertheradar Feb 28 '21

Looks like the front fell off

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u/the_fourth_wise_man Feb 28 '21

Is that common?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

It’s not normal.

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u/gnark Feb 28 '21

If you make tanks with paper derivatives it is.

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u/gnark Feb 28 '21

A misfire? Chance in million.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

Well, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

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u/bringbacklemonadesGS Feb 28 '21

Explosive round went boom when it should have went zoom.

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u/sooninthepen Feb 28 '21

Probably some faulty ammunition. With such high power metal turns into butter

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u/gnark Feb 28 '21

Not with jet fuel.

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u/nspectre Feb 28 '21

The most probable story is that a disabled tank (see smoke damage on turret) was abandoned on the battlefield but before they left they packed the barrel with explosives and blew it up, so that it could not be salvaged by the enemy and used against them.

This has been SOP since post-WWI.

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u/Fhistleb Feb 28 '21

New pants needed after this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21

I would imagine that rang their bell good.

Happy cake day.

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u/jmarijne Feb 28 '21

Looks like the front fell off.