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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I know smth about this is fucking dumb, but no clue what. The added weight? The impracticality?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Wait, explain that to an idiot please. Could the water pressure crush a person? It wouldn't just go up?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

So what exactly happens? The water moves into the person so fast it crushes them?

[-] Voroxpete 13 points 6 months ago

Not exactly. The shockwave propogates directly into your body. Basically, the energy transfer liquifies your internal organs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[-] JungleJim 1 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you for this, wild stuff

[-] JungleJim 1 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This reply thread is the information I needed from this topic 👍

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Tank get hole, water go out hole

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Early warning of Hullfailure from smaller penetrations. Success again

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Big two stick energy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but then you're left with a lighter, more agile tank. It's a win-win!

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