Tank barrel obstruction

If you were fighting a gorilla war against an enemy with tanks, would you be able to destroy an enemy tank by throwing a rock down the gun barrel? How would this NOT have catastrophic effects if the crew don't notice?

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Gas travelling ahead of the projectile will blow it out of the bore, unless it's really lodged in there. The shell itself could also knock it out. It shouldn't detonate that soon after being fired.

>Gorilla war

My grandpa was in a tank resupply unit in WWII and he talked about how some psychos would sneak over to enemy lines at night and put mud in the barrels of german tanks.

He had to find the American tanks on the front lines at night with the headlights off on his gasoline truck and fill up the American tanks. If he missed one that tank would have to retreat the next morning to refill so it was important to top them all off.
He loved to tell the story of going too far and pulling up beside a german tank, almost shitting himself, and driving back to the USA side of the battlefield.

Just spray black paint on every optical sight.

Well by the time gorillas figure out how to drive tanks, we probably wouldn't be living on this planet anymore.

I didn't know ooga booga gorillas could afford a tank

I can't remember what they were called. But I remember watching a documentary about WWII covert ops and there were special canisters made to fit in the bore of a german tank. You slide it in the muzzle, pull the pin, and it released a corrosive chemical that fused the can to the bore. The next time they fired it would make the barrel explode. Much more permanent than mud because it was chemically fused. The bore of the barrel was ruined. And it was silent so the commando could slip away undetected.

Dope as fuck
Where can I read more about this sort of thing? World war operations from the point of view of a layman

There's a bunch of books, one of them being "SAS Rogue Heroes" by Ben Macintyre. It's pretty alright.