Liquid soap as an anti-tank weapon !

I detect an urban legend based on a misunderstanding.

There is something that liquid soap is quite useful for, if you are trying to fight an invasion of tanks with only improvised civilian weapons. But it isn't trying to make them slip and slide.

Liquid soap is what you add to gasoline to make napalm.

Sure you can get more industrial about it, but that is the basic idea behind napalm - to thicken gas so that it sticks to stuff and burns thoroughly right on the surface, instead of evaporating and mostly wasting its combustion in the air well away from the object you are attacking.

I have no doubt getting some liquid soap would be useful to Hungarian rebels, to make their molotovs dramatically more effective. Seems to me a much more plausible use of it, than the slip-slide approach.

 

Imagine if there was an anti - tank ditch at the bottom of the slippery slope!

 

To the best of my, admittedly limited knowledge, I thought the ingredients of napalm were either naptha and palm oil, or petrol and palm oil. The palm oil is thick at normal temps, but melts easily ( its used as a cooking oil too) this would allow it to stick and yet flow to get a real good destructive fire.
I would have thought that liquid soap used in this application would separate, or atleast put a bit of a damper on the fire??

 

Soap is used to 'jelly' the flammable liquids, causing it to stick to whatever it hits rather than just creating a pretty fireball in the air.

 

It is dumbest thing i ewer heard ^^

Soup make tank to slip?

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Do u know weight of T-55?

Is it 45 degrees uphill so tank sliped?


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Once i read how can u kill tank with apple....

 

fairy liquid!

For the very FIRST time sinissa I totally agree with you....(I suppose it all depends on the soup?)... but don't do it too often! :lol:

 

An emulsifier in fact.

Soup - hot scotch broth at high velocity should do it - the meat and carrot acts as a shaped charge and squirts a stream of molten barley through the armour - devastating.

 

fairy liquid

'Mock Turtle' is pretty good, the AFV turns over!!!

 

Or maybe "French Onion" -- very smelly and causes immediate surrender :lol:

 

Liquid soup?

Sinissa... info for you, you remarked about killing tank with apple?
In WW2 there was a British AT unit that specialised in this operation, they were known as the 'Apple Corps'.

 

Nic merlin,name of my hometown is Apple, (on Serbian owkors),eaven a logo is similar,(owkors it is apple allso :lol: ) so it is fun to know that facts.Can u redirect me to some site maybe when i can learn more about them?

 

Apple Corps!!!

Ossie!!!! HELP!
"Beam me up Scotty".

 

One born every minute?

Or language barrier?

Try him on the Brownie elite!!!

 

I hate to say it, but Merlin is punning (lowest form of humour but highest form of wit etc.) Corps is prounounced Core, so Apple Corps = Apple Core -- the bit with the seeds you throw away.

Alternatively he is making some very bad computer related joke...

Tom

 

AT soup

sinissa, I'm very ashamed of myself for making such a bad joke, I did it more for the posters who have English as their first language, I hope I have not offended you, but very pleased my friend Ossie has explained.

 

:angry:

It is ok anyway,dont worry merlin

 

Skidding tanks

I have seen tanks skid dangerously on ice ( sometimes demolishing buildings and vehicles ) even when fitted with grousers.
BG