When I played Barotrauma I always thought I had some mod on since I didn’t know stowage was an actual word. I thought it was more like “stowage :3”, you know, silly speech?
As a non native English speaker I thought that some furry guy decided to change storage by stowage, because uwu.
Then I looked up at word reference.
God that ammo is so wet.
Is wet ammo stowage a thing?
It used to be, but not in the sense that the shells are in a pool of water. They had containers of water in between the ammo, so that in the case of a hit on the ammo rack, it would soak the ammo and hopefully not turn the tank into a quickbake oven.
Whether or not it worked, or if just moving the ammo out of the line of fire was what helped is up for debate. Modern tanks use faster burning charges, so soaking them probably wouldn’t work anyway, so they have blowout panels instead.
That makes sense. I was mildly surprised that shells would be okay to permanently immerse in water.
Yeah, superheated steam is really good for the skin, I hear.
The USS Arizona has wet ammo stowage.
It’s used in tanks, too. Or was, at least, with the Sherman being a famous example.
Huh.
In that case this isn’t as dumb as OP probably thought when they drew it. If your ammo cooks off in 40 or 50C, you have bigger problems. The only thing I’d worry about is what the shells leach into the water.
Heavy metals that will be absorbed into your skin over a long enough time frame, gradually giving you the sub-dermal armor augmentation from Deus Ex
My first response was its a firefighting thing where the mag could be flooded to protect them.
But now you actually asked the question I could actually be full of shit.
