"Listen. Hear me and obey. A foul darkness has seeped into my temple. A darkness that you will scrub. Return my bar of soap to Mount Kilkreath. And I will make you the instrument of my cleansing suds."
Pretty much, though blanks aren't actually bullets, they're rounds or cartridges. The main difference between blanks and regular rounds/cartridges is that blanks don't have bullets (the metal bit which gets shot out of the gun)
They still have the gunpowder though, so like can@sh.itjust.works said, they are still dangerous due to the explosion that no longer has to propel a bullet.
I thought I would be smart, and brought the shield generator to keep out the shriekers.
Yeah, that only blocks projectiles, and the shriekers flew right through it...
I think it depends on if you hit the ship before the tank/bot has started dropping. If you can hit it while it's still completely on the ship, I think it works. At the very least, I've seen tank corpses stuck in mid-air after the ship goes down.
"Listen. Hear me and obey. A foul darkness has seeped into my temple. A darkness that you will scrub. Return my bar of soap to Mount Kilkreath. And I will make you the instrument of my cleansing suds."