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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • It’s an old saying. The Empire had colonies all over the world so at any point in time it was day for at least one colony. Therefore the sun never set on The Empire as a whole.

    The joke is making fun of that old saying, pretending it means there is no night for the British isles and all the sun is causing the temperature of the isles to increase.

    I hope that’s enough explanation to remove any humor from the joke.











  • I assume probably nothing for both modern tanks and WWII era, but for different reasons.

    I think the WWII era tanks basically shot slugs, so hooting a bullet at a much bigger bullet would probably not do much, at the very worst it triggers the firing mechanism and the tank fires normally (but prematurely).

    Modern tanks fire much more complex projectiles that contain explosives, so there is the possibility of triggering the detonation mechanism early… But for robust battlefield reasons the detonation mechanism is disabled until after firing. So that is also unlikely.

    Now take all of this with a grain of salt, this isn’t the War Thunder forums.