From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   john larkin  wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:40:21 +0000, Jeff Layman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >On 21/12/2025 05:08, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> This is roughly equivalent to insisting that petrol-engined car won't   
   > >> catch fire if you shoot a bullet into the petrol tank.   
   > >   
   > >It won't catch fire. You can search for this yourself:   
   > >   
   > >bullet gasoline tank fire   
   > >   
   > >It's a myth, mainly as a result of many Hollywood movies showing cars   
   > >exploding from a single bullet to the tank. Even multiple bullets fired   
   > >into a tank won't cause the fuel to ignite. You need an incendiary   
   > >bullet, and even then you might require more than one.   
   >   
   > We (the good guys) got a great advantage in WWII, with planes that had   
   > self-sealing gas tanks.   
      
   I think you will find the Germans had them before WWII broke out but we   
   didn't develop them until later.  Apparently the UK research was bogged   
   down by mission drift or 'specification-runaway'.   
      
      
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