from tank experts only, can a m1a1 tank survive a nuclear explosion close to ground zero?
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The M1A1 has an NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) protection system. It allows the crew to button up the tank to seal themselves off from harmful agents and radiation while filtering the outside air to provide clean air inside the tank to breathe. However, a nuclear explosion expands outward so fast that if the tank is too close to ground zero, the crew simply won't have time to react. Even if they did, the intense heat produced at that range from ground zero would cook the crew alive anyway.
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If welding, then the tank must be metallic.  If the tank is metallic with no liner, then the acid would eat the tank, releasing hydrogen gas until the pressure built high enough to, potentially, blow up the tank.\n\nIf the tank has a liner, then the explosion may have been caused by current between the welding electrode and the welding base connection, since sulfuric acid is such a good conductor.  Such a current could electrolyze the solution, again emitting gasses that could cause the tank to explode.
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Nothing is indestructable, everything burns or melts at a certain temperature. even aerogel, the most fire resistant synthetic material, has a melting point of about 2000 degrees farenheit. This website should help clear it up, \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_%28transportation%29\n\nbut basically it is a quarter of an inch thick steel with fireproof material like kevlar underneath. it is a flight data recorder and voice recorder that can store flight data to tell what went wrong and voice recorder to tell if it was a terrorist attack/highjack or determine if it was a human error. old ones used to have moving parts and failed occasianally, but newer digital ones have no moving parts, hold more information, and never fail that i have heard about.
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I've built a model rocket with a M80 in the nose cone.  The fuse was placed directly in the end of the motor which normally launches the parachute.  When the second stage motor ended, it lit the fuse on the M80 and it blew up - simple and reliable.  But it was launched straight up and reached its apogee at 500 feet before exploding - (it was actually one the happiest moments in my life because we had worked hard on a number of launches building up to this final successful launch).\n\nI'd suggest getting some experience launching vertically first (it's safer and you won't trash your $$ electronics every launch)  Just make sure the center of pressure is behind the center of gravity so it doesn't go unstable.  You CAN have a lot of fun launching model rockets vertically. \n\nLaunching a rocket horizontally is really risky (I've done it before and I wouldn't want to do it again), especially if there is wind (rocket will track into the wind).  If a single fin falls off (because the glue broke), the missile will go unstable and it may come back at you! (no kidding)  \n\nThe electronics/servos the home hobbyist is likely to buy or build is unlikely to have the control response speed to prevent the rocket from going unstable - it takes thousands of dollars (and an engineering degree) to build and test a stable model rocket that can fly horizontally under any kind of control - even nation-states have a difficult time doing this, not to mention the potential liability you (or your parents) will have. (fire, injury, whathaveyou) \n\nIf you're really interested in building horizontal flying missles, it would be better if you enrolled in an aeronautical program in college to learn how to do it.  You could get paid for doing stuff like this if you got your degree and went to work for General Dynamics or Boeing doing cruise missile design.
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There are several different ways the bomb damages surroundings, depending on the distance from ground zero:\n\n1. Nearest the bomb explosion, severe heat vaporizes everything.\n2. Nuclear radiation moves out from the epicenter.\n3. Pressure shock-waves also move out from the epicenter, knocking down structures.\n4. Fallout comes down from the skies, coating everything.
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Trey is correct, however I just ran into some red tape with two 20,000 gallon diesels in southern KY. My customer was really pushing to get these things out of the ground.. Fast! As it ends up, several states have a set time frame on how long a (ust) underground storage tank can sit empty. Your state fire marshel would be the best place to start.  If they dont over see this, ask them for a contact w/ the state EPA or the UST branch.  MAKE SURE YOU USE CERTIFIED COMPANIES.... THIS IS THE EPA WE'RE TALKING ABOUT! \n\nTOTAL BILL FOR TWO 20'S  W/ 3RD PARTY ENVIRO. CONSULTANT WAS AROUND 35 G'S
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I would suggest getting a color gaurd rifle.  Although made of wood, you should not have much trouble with breakage, unless you are practicing on concrete.  I would suggest practicing in your yard.  \n\nBuying a Garand with most parts is going to run you in the 500 to 800 dollar range at most gun shops, and this is for a worn used rack grade piece.  A collectors piece is more in the 1200 to 1800 dollar range.\n\nSecondly, for your purposes, you need no internal mechanisms, as you are not practicing firing the rifle, only spinning it.  \n\nI think a high school color gaurd rifle, weighted with metal if it is not heavy enough, would be more than sufficient. \n\nLastly, the U.S. Rifle M1 was made by Springfield, and Springfield is a company not a particular rifle.
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explosion, yes...nuclear, no
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As I recall that is a tank mounted weapon. They contained \nexplosives and blew up on impact with an object.\n\nThank you very much, while you're up.
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The U.S.'s M1A2 Abrahms tank. The tank has a 120mm. gun and is the most technologically advanced tank in the world. The Abrahms was designed to destroy Russian Tanks.
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Sure, no problem;\n\nYou can use the plutonium in the Nuclear Mole Traps from the garden center, the high-yield TNT from hardware, and I think the timers are on the end-of-the-aisle displays by the paint department.  Now, the plutonium is pretty low-grade stuff (since you don't want to kill the grass, too!) so you'll probably get a smaller yield, say 10-20 kilotons.  But if you use some conduit to make a gas centrifuge, you might be able to enrich it enough to boost that to 40-50 kilotons.  That's not a huge blast, but it's enough to let that bully know that you're serious when you say, "No, you can't have my lunch money".\n\nOr you can just take karate classes, like someone else suggested.  You'll still get your butt kicked, but it won't be as messy as the job the bully would do.
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Yah, I got one.\nDo you need the detonator circuit too?
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MC Hummer is a dolt, WMD would infer the DU rounds caused nuclear explosions... \n\nUnexploded DU rounds don't cause illness.  Messing around vehicles that have been destroyed by a DU round does cause illness...\n\nMc Dolt, nice photo's you scum bag, did you write the BS story all by yourself?  I'm retired Army been to Iraq three times and Bosnia and Kosovo both twice.  Seen plenty of destroyed vehicles courtsey of USAF DU rounds and I don't have cancer and neither do my children...  \n\nYou're a typical stuck on stupid liberal.  What part of an unexploded DU round poses no harm is hard for you to understand.  DU rounds are only dangerous after they have hit their target and irradiate the adjacent ground, dirt and dust.  Unfortunately much like yourself, the military has dolts that would approach destroyed vehicles and kick up and breath the irradiated dust.  Too bad you're an ignorant coward and rather run you yap than defend your country....\n\nAs for your links, pure BS...
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I think it very likely that some people will survive.  We have a great track record of tolerating and adapting to some pretty extreme conditions.  I expect there are some secret hideaways that would even allow a few folks to survive a "nuclear winter" scenario, and start repopulating without the technology.  Obviously, any less serious scenario will allow even more flexibility for means of survival.  Right now, today, I do not believe there is a practical possibility of more than two nuclear devices being detonated -- those few who might be otherworldly enough to use them do not, praise Allah and thank God, have the means to use more.  The tragic military, political, economic, and environmental consequences would immediately and eventually kill tens of millions of people, perhaps hundreds of millions, and alter the conditions of life for the billions remaining..  but "billions remaining" is a great lot of survivors to be tolerating and adapting to conditions.  We'll manage.
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Are we talking about a gun, if so the German 88mm canon.  if we are talking about an airplane bombing a boat, the Japan Zero.
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Steel... kevlar and ceramics are good for body armor, but when was the last time you've heard of small arms fire penetrating a tank.
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Open it up and smash it with a hammer. If you destroy anything vital, it will stop working.\n\nThe difficult part with atomic bombs is to make them explode. Everything MUST work perfectly with perfect timing. If anything is off, it's a dud. The chances of them exploding accidentally is almost zero.\n\nAccidental launch is a different matter.