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Marek_Tucan said:
There was Abrams recently hit in Iraq by "top attack" RKG-3M grenade. It hit the ammo compartment and ammo went off, two crew members (supposedly unbuttoned at the time) suffered 3rd degree burs.
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Were the crew supposedly injured in the resulting ammo explosion? For this to happen in the M1, a crewman would have to have been in the process of retrieving a round from the magazine. Otherwise they should be protected by a blast door and the compartment is designed to divert the explosion upward away from the crew.