Posted on 07/17/2019 4:31:32 PM PDT by Norski
A company expects to make available soon in the United States a tracked wildland fire suppression vehicle featuring a turbine aided nozzle/mist blower and a 1,300-gallon water tank that can be refilled by helicopter.
“The first demonstrator chassis is ready in Reno, Nevada at Powerbully now and waiting for the turbine to be shipped from Italy by air freight,” Nicholas Davis, CEO of Arcus Fire said. “It will be doing a week-long demo program at Reno during late October. The second demonstrator is also ready for the turbine in Montreal at Prinoth. It will have an HKD Blue turbine on it and will be on display at the Ottawa conference in November and then doing a tour of the provinces.”
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When there was that International effort to put out all the fires in the Kuwaiti oil fields, an Eastern Bloc vehicle like this showed up. T-72 chassis with a mig-21 jet engine mounted on top. They would aim the exhaust at the fires be snuffed out, and right after the tailpipe was a massive fire hose injection of seawater.
So you got the full blast effect of a jet engine blowing full power sea water. There’s a cool National Geographic video about it called “The fires of Kuwait”.
Increase the vehicle size and holding tank of water and it would be even better............
I remember Williams Boots and Coots. Class act.
Sorry, that should have been directed at DesertRhino.
Drop your weapons!!!
Looks like a really pissed-off Transformer, doesn’t it?
I think this would be great in flyover country(plains states) but the coastal ranges and the Sierra would eat this thing alive.
A Cedar forest would turn these into fire hazards.
Excellent and very useful.
Can’t speak personally to the Sierras, but agree on the coast range, and imagine that would be true of any forested place with real topography. The steep hills would make for tons of roll overs, as well as make it very difficult to aim water accurately. Hard to do halfway up a hill.
That thing will never fly, wings are too small.
On fourth thought I have figured this out, and it is brilliant.
This is not about public fire suppression, it is about ‘corporate fire suppression.’
Imagine 2-3 of these circling the campus of ‘xyg’ corp, LTD making sure the encroaching wildfire remains off worksite.
In a manicured environment these could be very effective.
Out ‘inna woods’ they would be a liability.
IMHO
Useless in any kind of steep country with reasonable-sized trees. Might be OK in sage and cheat grass range fires if the wind didn’t push them very fast.
Great for areas that have been built-up where it could take water up through yards etc. to put out grassfires, wet down roofs, etc.
That’s the beast. I think it was Romanian but I’m not sure. And they made an ingenious move to get seawater to the fields for all the teams. The pipeline infrastructure was there to take oil to the seaports.
So they reversed the flow and piped seawater back to each group of oil wells.
Sagan said it would be a nuclear winter and it would burn for years. It was done in 7 months.
Good lord, it’s not a T-72 with MiG-21 engines. It’s a T-34!! Hungarians built it.
Dream weapon against antifa or idiots wanting to storm area51
looks like the contraption was built on a Soviet T-55 hull.
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