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Old 12-12-05, 09:09 AM   #1
Etienne
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Originally Posted by Schpeedy
I do wonder what form the oil was in that was on these tankers.
Was it ready to be put into airplanes as is, or did it need to be refined?
I'm sure that refineries were main targets for the luftwaffe.

Anyways, since ye don't have a phd in chemistry and work for shell oil, I have to doubt that a tanker wouldn't catch fire and/or explode when hit by a torpedo.
Depends. Tankers can carry peanut butter as well as JP4. It all depends on what the customer needs.

Do you have a phd in chemistry and work for shell oil? I'm a merchant marine cadet, and sort of qualified to work on a tanker. They might explode, or they might not. It depends on many, many factors, some of them not even factored into the game, like temperature. So while a tanker going up in a fireball is realistic (And I've had it happen in-game), a tanker slowly taking on a list and chugging on toward home is also realistic.

The most explosive thing, as I've explained in a previous post, would be an empty tanker that hasn't yet been cleaned.
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