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Hmm. I'm not entirely sold that a flamethrower would be an effective weapon against a modern main battle tank.
Do you have ANY idea how hot a typical dragon fireball is??
Besides, Fire Dragons are mostly cooks, glassblowers and welders.
Anti-Tank Dragons are most typically Rust Dragons or Mud Dragons.
Hmm. No, I don't.
considers
Hmm. I mean, it's orange, right? So figure black-body radiation determines the color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
So maybe something like 2000°F, 1100°C?
But I'm more thinking that a tank probably has a lot of thermal mass, and I figure that the dragon probably isn't keeping sustained fire on the thing for all that long. I mean, I've no doubt that dragon fire would be horrific in an anti-personnel role, but against heavy armor? It's gonna take a lot of energy to heat that up.
EDIT: I feel like a "how would the 1st Armored Division do against Smaug" would be a good !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works question.
NCD would tell you that question has already been answered by an anime called GATE.