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Spoilers within, regarding the final set piece in the new A-Team movie and the plausibility of one of the elements.
Okay, so in the final set piece, a single shot from a shoulder-launched rocket ends up breaking a cargo ship in half amidships. Yes, there's some secondary explosions from the containers, but it's still just one rocket.
On the other hand, a cargo ship is designed to resist diffuse forces like waves, and maybe deal with running aground. It's not designed to handle anti-armor weaponry, so it's possible that a single shot in the right place would break the keel.
Does anyone with more knowledge of either ships or anti-armor rockets know if that part of the movie is at least plausible? Or would it take several shots in exactly the right places to sink a ship like that?
Oh, and regarding the tank drop: steering certainly plausible. Slowing down...maybe. It's hard to tell how high the terminal velocity really is on just one chute, they might not have really needed to cut that much speed. But repeated firing wouldn't help any more than a single shot at the end, since the firing cycle is long enough to get back up to the new terminal velocity between shots (not that I'd expect people in a falling tank to think of that). But even if they hit softly enough to avoid destroying the tank's systems, I'm pretty sure a completely submerged tank will not drive. Unless this model is designed for limited runs on batteries or something.
Okay, so in the final set piece, a single shot from a shoulder-launched rocket ends up breaking a cargo ship in half amidships. Yes, there's some secondary explosions from the containers, but it's still just one rocket.
On the other hand, a cargo ship is designed to resist diffuse forces like waves, and maybe deal with running aground. It's not designed to handle anti-armor weaponry, so it's possible that a single shot in the right place would break the keel.
Does anyone with more knowledge of either ships or anti-armor rockets know if that part of the movie is at least plausible? Or would it take several shots in exactly the right places to sink a ship like that?
Oh, and regarding the tank drop: steering certainly plausible. Slowing down...maybe. It's hard to tell how high the terminal velocity really is on just one chute, they might not have really needed to cut that much speed. But repeated firing wouldn't help any more than a single shot at the end, since the firing cycle is long enough to get back up to the new terminal velocity between shots (not that I'd expect people in a falling tank to think of that). But even if they hit softly enough to avoid destroying the tank's systems, I'm pretty sure a completely submerged tank will not drive. Unless this model is designed for limited runs on batteries or something.
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