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Small amounts of explosives laying on the ground surface don't make much of a hole at all. The force follows the path of least resistance up and to the sides. Most artillery shells have a heavy steel wall to withstand the acceleration and pressure on firing and have a relatively small amount...
I guess this hijacks the thread but....
I was a mortarman (Indirect Fire Crewman for the Army) I spent the first six years of my career as a Fire Direction Computer back in the days when we did all the ballistic and meteorological computations by hand or with some special slide rule...
As a "food for thought" item, I'm not sure if any fuel can that is that rough should ever be used for anything but a paperweight. Not only would a spill of 5 gallons of diesel present a fire hazard but in most states using a can that rough and having a spill would lead to some pretty hefty...