The Let's Play Archive

Silent Steel

by Magnetic North

Part 63: Info #42

Fangz posted:

radintorov posted:

That, and you can throw C4 in a fire without it exploding if it doesn't have a detonator.

C4 explodes with a combination of heat and shock. Throw C4 in a hot enough fire and then *kick it* and it'll explode. Really though the problem isn't so much the explosives, but the torpedo fuel. The torpedo fuel is the likely culprit for the loss of the submarine Kursk, for example. If the fuel goes off, then that will probably trigger the C4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia...Kursk_explosion