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Old 05-05-2014, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MaxGunz View Post
Those planes carried oxygen as well as fuel.
Oxygen systems were generally low pressure and oxygen cylinders (or globes) were small. That meant that a hit to a pressurized O2 container would do some secondary damage, but not enough to blow the plane apart in the same way that an explosive hit to a partially full gas tank, bomb or ammo magazine would.
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