Avgas (aviation gasoline, the super-high-octane blend used in piston-engined aircraft) can blow up like this (with a very Hollywoodish fireball), which is why airplanes since the 1920s have things like self-sealing fuel tanks and inert-gas-pressurization for their tanks. Jet fuel's extremely-high ignition temperature causes it to behave a lot like diesel. Diesel pretty much won't blow at all unless you light a fire under it and keep it burning until it causes a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion), which will take a while to accomplish. An ordinary passenger car's gas tank with unleaded gasoline will produce a "POP" and a quick (and anticlimactic) flash of flames underneath the vehicle with all four tires remaining firmly planted on the ground, though the resulting fire may consume the vehicle pretty quickly. Even if (against all odds, logic, and reason) the fuel tank does explode, the result is rarely the spectacular car-flipping fireball that Hollywood promises. Besides, if you have a minigun then you're not going to need to shoot the fuel tank anyway. A real-life fuel tank explosion was only possible when they used a minigun armed with incendiary rounds which, suffice to say, is generally unlikely. This myth was busted by MythBusters, as they proved that in most cases it simply will not work. This makes for an effective tactic in battle, as it's filled with nitro, in addition to the gas.
In fiction, shooting a fuel tank makes it explode.
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