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Originally Posted by Rockwolf66
Yet there were instances of the fuel or ammo in a tank going up in a fiery conflagration. Among those of us who are not explosive techs we are used to seeing huge fireballs when things go up. Still I prefer sharper bangs and clouds of dust.
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Oh absolutely, it goes without saying that if a bunch of fuel or other volatiles goes up there is going to be a fireball. I haven't been in combat but those on this forum who have have no doubt seen explosions of both the fiery and non-fiery variety in combat conditions. But secondary explosions notwithstanding, I bet they saw more non-fiery than fiery explosions.
I'm sure many here will recall the Mythbusters concrete truck explosion. One of my favorites!
Edit: The Youtube embedding code seems to have failed on this one so here's the raw link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxm_qpKh7Jw