Not completely: kinetic energy easily translates to heat, enough heat to ignite things. Coupled with easily ignited gunpowder, it would be close to certainty.
I handed my FAL loaded with ball ammo to a staff sergeant at Quantico during a fam shoot and he fired a couple of rounds at the edge of our cleared area - it it started a fire in the trees that stopped our shooting and brought the base fire department.
Interesting. Still...
Wait, I just thought that if the projectiles heated the steel of the vehicle while passing through enough before the metals hit the gunpowder.
Hmmm. I (Might) stand corrected.
Thank you.
Yeah. I saw fires on ranges in the Guard several times. Bullets can ignite weeds or grass, even at 300 meters.
Don't need heat....impact will do the trick. Take a very small amount of firecracker powder and hit it with a hammer.
A lot of the 7.62 NATO ball ammo had copper-washed steel jackets or mild steel cores.
If you ever shoot at night into gravel, you will see a shower of sparks.