Re: SG II: Flame vs. armor

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:

> Modern AFV's have air intakes and vents for their engines... if you
dumped
> a bottle of burning fuel into one, it might do *something*.

Many that have been designed for IS work have been getting flame 
resistant components on the engine (Nomes/metal/asbestos) fittings and 
wireing. This makes the molotov cocktail less than useful.

> Unless the AFV has an on-boar fire supression system in the engine
bay.

The fire supression system may help to a degree if there is some medium 
to minor damage, if a hellfire missile strikes the turret, I doubt there

is much to be gained from the largest bottle of Halon..

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