Wysten wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:They aren't air tight, they are water tight to a degree but generally would require additional work to be carried out to be able to ford rivers (fording kit including snorkel). While a Molotov cocktail would not be very efficient at completely knocking out a modern tank, because they are designed with that eventuality in mind, it can still have some effect. As already mentioned radios, machine gun mountings, ammo, and personnel equipment are all commonly attached or stored on the outside. This is not to mention that tank commanders like to keep their heads out because it gives them better fields of vision than staying inside. The fire and/or smoke in the engine to mobility kill a tank is rather hard and uncommon, but similar things have happened to modern tanks. Enough fire can also block the vision ports of a tank, making it harder to maneuver and fire small arms attacks definitely tends to drive away supporting infantry which makes the tanks job a lot harder.
TL;DR: Molotov Cocktails are inefficient and unlikely to get any form of kill, but can slow and degrade a tanks capabilities.
Or we could always go that one route that Japanese Commander did and just straight up take a Katana and take out the crew that way./s
But that wouldn't work on a modern MBT, because MODERN TANK INVINCIBLE LIKE BORIS!
