In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana rides up to the WWI Mark VIII Tank on a horse and jams a large rock inside the side gun causing the barrel of the cannon to mushroom out and backfire the gun. Is this possible?....

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Originally posted by CultureShock:
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana rides up to the WWI Mark VIII Tank on a horse and jams a large rock inside the side gun causing the barrel of the cannon to mushroom out and backfire the gun. Is this possible?....

I like your way of thinking! That is a good question. I remember they did that with a gun though. I think it was a hand gun, not sure. Unfortunately, it didn't work for that so I'm going to say it won't work for the tank either.

Dunno - watching a few documentaries about WW2 in general and tanks in particular, I am sure I have seen, in the background, a tank gun barrel with that sort of damage. How it came by that damage, no-one said. Large barrels might be constructed differently, they certainly use a much larger charge.