This Tank Has Jet Engines and Fights Fires

Yahoo News ^ | 1-1-2015 | yahoo

[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.

[AlmaKing]

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Scroll down to the video and skip the ad. This thing actually works.

Hold my Vodka!

[Farmer Dean]

This machine should be an effective riot control tool.A water cannon on steroids.

[Vendome]

TTIUWP’s!!!!

[Zathras]

That was REALLY cool!
Far less dangerous than using explosives and self propelled.

[biff]

Wonder if a couple of these may help out west with the brush fires they have every year. Fire it up and just drive down the fire line.

[Argus]

I want one!

[headstamp 2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIrOyIg6y0

[SkyDancer]

Hungarians make things like this when they’re bored. Imagine what they can do when they put their minds to it ... oh, right, five Hungarian Jews instrumental in the making of the “___________”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wouldn’t this have been great in Ferguson? Imagine the yutes getting blown down the street with baggy pants acting like jib sails!

[moose07]

Awesome Kit Ping!

[WMarshal]

That thing gives Darth Vader wood!

[Darksheare]

It looks angry.

[no-to-illegals]

Wow! Wants me one of those.

[MV=PY]

Very cool!

I suppose someone worked out the physics, but I’m not sure I’d stand behind it when they crank the jets up.

[Secret Agent Man]

“Number five is alive and ready to wipe you out!”

[moose07]

It is uncanny isn’t it?
Glad i’m not the only one that saw that. :)

[Chode]

fight fires hell, crank it up, kick in the burners and BBQ the friggin goathumpers with it!!!

[skinkinthegrass]

imagine bring "that" to water-balloon fight..or a
'yout riot w/blue or orange water dye.

[null and void]

Well, I'M impressed!

[Norm Lenhart]

It might make it worse though. Blowing hot coals thousands of feet...