LOL, and i'd pay to see it done
Posted on 01/10/2015 12:06:49 PM PST by AlmaKing
Here’s your proof that sometimes being just a little bit crazy results in something amazing. This is a working fire truck. It is made from a WWII-era Russian T34 tank. Strapped to that tank’s roof are the engines from a MiG-21 fighter jet. They call this Frankenstein creation Big Wind, and it’s a wonder to see it in action.
According to MPORA, the fire truck was built by Hungarian engineers and was first used in 1991. That was back when Saddam Hussein’s army was laying waste to Kuwait as they retreated from the country. One of their destructive tactics was to set huge oil fires that were very difficult to extinguish, unless you had this thing at your disposal.
Big Wind works by shooting water through six hoses that are mounted around the jet engines and will shoot out 8,000 gallons of water per minute. This would be impressive in its own right. Turn on the jet engines with their 27,000 pounds of thrust each, and all that water is now shooting out at 770 MPH. Of late, they’ve been using it to once again put out oil fires in commercial oil fields.
Odd. I wonder why fires restart after being doused all night by fire departments in burnt buildings all the time.
Aliens!
A whole lot more water is being put out by these things.
The air pressure front preceding the initial blast of this beast would scatter coals before water touched them.
Watch slow mo footage of a blast sometime to see this in action. Dirt flies everywhere before the fire hits.
Hell, watch this video as it powers up. Look at the oil fire as the jets spool up.
I think you’re playing with me - how about Szilard?
Yes. My “People we have been waiting for” was a play on Barrys comment, but also a play on Teller, Albert and Co. being the people that America waited for to finish another powerful/awesome device.
I just put in a request to build one of these for our department. (^;
Wow, “Big Wind” both sucks and blows! And it really does work.
LOL, and i'd pay to see it done
Where’s the problem?
I figured that would be the result.That’s what I call effective riot control.
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