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It would be a shaped explosion the round hitting it but more importantly the speed of the plasma would massivly compress the diesel easily hitting flash point then being vaporised.
The blast would be centred on the area of pressure so the explosion would be aimed mainly at the plasma jet taking energy out of it & hopefully distorting it.

I think at this point we're just stumbling over semantics for this effect. I think technically even this is going to be highly localized flash burning given a fuel that lacked oxygen prior to the trigger explosion, but whatever. I fully agree it would do the trick against a single HEAT effect.

The point remains, why? A metal grate would do the same thing with far fewer side effects.