Imagine being inside a tank and it getting hit by a warhead. If that didn’t literally ring your bell, nothing could. You wouldn’t have eardrums left, I don’t think.
LOL! Indeed your whole system would be left numb and ringing! Lost enough hearing from close encounters with things that go BOOM to get a C&P rating... Still can't hear worth a damn from that. Can't imagine being entombed in a tin can being slammed with Boom!
I have been inside an open-topped armored fighting vehicle when a shaped charge warhead struck us, the explosive jet blowing right in one side and right out the other. We hardly noticed it at the time [taking full-auto RPK fire, among other things] though it would have been pretty rough on anyone standing directly between entry and exit.
I'd also have been less happy to have undergone the experience in a fully-enclosed vehicle such as a tank. A couple of my Israeli pals who have survived impacts from wire-guided AT missles such as the Soviet Sagger/Malyutka tell me I worry too much, that the commander's cupola comes right off [with the vehicle commander in it] and relieves the pressure.
A description from an old style tank: The driver said the round hit the front armor, did not penetrate, and the front wall of the tank glowed cherry red for a while.