The use of foam filled tanks could have helped. Flying low with flight deck armour is false security as the biggest target is a fuel filled alley wing!!
Why no foam??? Cost??
All the USAF SF aircraft have it fitted, even the choppers!!
(They have even found rounds in the tanks when later servicing them)
I did raise the subject when I served with 'Them'.
All so silly and such a waste as many of us always said fuel tanks where a massive risk!!
Might not have been small / medium arms fire and could have been a missile in which case your f***ed!