detonation of fuel tanks and fueltanks

[Grifflez]

Something similar happens with shooting a fuel tank with a laser. Things you'd expect to dramatically ignite and explode a fuel tank and result in an action-movie fireball don't quite work like that.

Flares fail to ignite a fuel tank because they don't convey any heat unless they set something on fire (and they don't set objects on fire unless they hit the floor, which is being blocked by the fuel tank).

I don't think lasers even convey any sort of change in heat to objects/people they hit.