Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Are Molotov Cocktails effective vs Modern Tanks?" video.

What if you're just heating up the air that goes into the intake instead of the steel? No need to heat the outer sheet metal on the oven, just feed it hot air.
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Active protection systems have a minimum activation speed of something like 70 m/s or else they'd go off due to nearby infantry throwing grenades or even birds flying.
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@LoisoPondohva The crew is provided air through a filtration system. I don't know where the intakes are, but if you heat up the air going inside the tank, surely you you can make the interior temperature rise without having to heat the entire tank. Would the crew be able to seal the air and be forced to fight on stale air? The physics and common sense work both ways. We don't light a fire outside the oven.
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Thermite isn't that effective. If you look at rail welding it requires a mold to constrain the heat, while thermite burning in the open loses a lot of its energy to the surrounding air and doesn't melt through metal as impressively as most think. They're useful to disable abandoned vehicles but not as an attack weapon.
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Ordnance Lab videos show thermite isn't as effective as people think.
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Possibly cause the explosive to melt or just burn depending on the composition used.
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You'd still need to cool the electrical components.
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@ERIK-457 The problem is that many people get hung up on this efficiency number regarding how an electric motor converts electricity to movement, however efficiency of a battery is degraded as temperature increases. The fuel of a tank also powers all the electronics, including the computers, sights and elements like the radars in active protection systems. The battery bank won't just have to be responsible for movement but also power somewhat demanding electronics. The energy density of fuel is just too important to give up. The crew also needs fresh air. So in the end it's impossible to run on an hermetically sealed tank except for a short while.
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Thermite doesn't work like that. /watch?v=yp90C0KWaY0 /watch?v=yto4Sx-yhFY Thermite can't even destroy a filing cabinet full of paper.
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@nattygsbord What about the air? Would the crew be forced to close the air intakes? Because there's filters to prevent the poisoning, but I can't imagine hot air getting sucked into a metal box won't turn it into an oven. Resisting heating from the outside also means build-up of heat inside because you can't just conduct it away easily.
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