Posted on 05/18/2014 7:39:39 PM PDT by Morgana
The Ukrainian army apparently left this fully gassed-up tank on a street near Mariupol. Naturally, people got curious — and then they got handsy. Not content with gawking at the outside of the tank, they started crawling inside, and inevitably, someone managed to fire off the still-loaded cannon. Abandoned tanks: All fun and games until someone loses a torso.
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Oh for sure it gets chilly sometimes. I’m on the River near Bullhead City. At night here it is usually over 100 from June through October’ish. ‘Usually’. But occasionally it cools off into the 80s. THOSE nights are awesome.
Just to add, probably my second favorite is after the scenario above when the sky clears up, it’s a full moon and the temp drops below zero... and that silence engulfs everything.
All the trees branches are crushed downward and it looks like a field of giant white cones sticking up from a sheet of cotton. And EVERYTHING literally sparkles in that moonlight.
Russia and its (for now) former colonies: As close as you’ll ever get to an entire nation of drunken fraternity and sorority members. (And closer than you want to get, believe me.)
And they have nukes!
I was thinking the BTR is tracked, while the BMP is wheeled.
BTR-60, 70 are wheeled, BMP-1, 2, 3 are tracked. Even my frau knows this is not a tank.
My bad, thanks. Forgot about the 8wheeled BTR.
We have one at school and the D@MN thing never shuts up. You should have seen /heard him the day my Cocker spaniel; decided she wanted chicken for lunch. Kept his mouth shut for the whole day after that.
Sure at that point it was empty.
You just did. Thanks for the pretty picture.
Tanks for posting that!
Hmmmmm? What’s this red button for? BOOM!
Dumb asses.
A friend of mine use to live in Lake Havasu City. I never understood how it could get so hot there. I would have thought the river would have some cooling effect.
It does. Havasu sits at the bottom of a valley. I’d hate to imagine how hot it would get without the lake.
Makes sense. Thanks!
It’s a weird deal. To the west there is a gradual several hundred foot climb, to the north and south, another several hundred foot drop and the east sits up against the mountains. Then there is the lake whose water is coming off the bottom of Hoover/Lake Mead and then the bottom of the BHC dam. So it gets to Havasu about 32.1 degrees ;)
Seriously though, it is quite cold even considering the 50ish mile trip from Bullhead City. So Lake Havasu itself is a huge heat sink.
Lake Havasu City is usually within 3 or so degrees of BHC/Laughlin/Needles despite sitting at the bottom of that valley so that lake has to be absorbing a huge level of heat to keep it there. Granted, BHC/Laughlin/Needles are also at the bottom of a valley but it is a MUCH bigger valley with much more circulation.
Yes, because we all know these things only carry one round, and he knew for a fact the tank did not have an automatic feed system. /sarc
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