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This Tank Has Jet Engines and Fights Fires
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Posted on 01/10/2015 12:06:49 PM PST by AlmaKing
Heres 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 tanks roof are the engines from a MiG-21 fighter jet. They call this Frankenstein creation Big Wind, and its 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 Husseins 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, theyve been using it to once again put out oil fires in commercial oil fields.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: jetengines; tank
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To: SkyDancer
...People we’ve been waiting for? ;)
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posted on
01/10/2015 12:53:43 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Landru/Romney 2016: "Are you Of the Body, Brother?")
To: moose07
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posted on
01/10/2015 12:55:39 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: skinkinthegrass
* imagining* Mmmmm, that works really well...
Can i add Sand?
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posted on
01/10/2015 12:58:47 PM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot.)
To: BenLurkin
“Its a Decepticon”
What? is it? How’d i miss that?
That was a close one! :)
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:00:48 PM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot.)
To: AlmaKing
I have a Big Wind also, but I think instead of putting out fires it would make them bigger.
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:08:05 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Farmer Dean
This machine should be an effective riot control tool. A water cannon on steroids. I think you'd probably kill people if you tried to use it for riot control — the water shoots off at about mach-1.
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:08:15 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:09:21 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
“Angry Tank will blast you with AWESOME!”
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:12:49 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: biff
out west with the brush fires
The apparatus, itself would be awesome, but the logistics required to deploy it into the remote and mountainous canyon areas would likely be more expensive than the air tankers that are used, in such instances.
To: AlmaKing
Man, I could pressure wash the driveway in a couple of seconds instead of three hours with one of those!
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:26:06 PM PST
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: AlmaKing
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posted on
01/10/2015 1:30:41 PM PST
by
dila813
To: AlmaKing
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:19:53 PM PST
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Norm Lenhart
To: SkyDancer
OH! it’s a bank thing! now I got you! ;)
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:22:08 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Landru/Romney 2016: "Are you Of the Body, Brother?")
To: AlmaKing
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:22:27 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:23:27 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Landru/Romney 2016: "Are you Of the Body, Brother?")
To: Farmer Dean
The drowned rioters would have broken ribs, faces and limbs.
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:25:51 PM PST
by
arthurus
To: biff
You have to have a very capacious water source.
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:26:29 PM PST
by
arthurus
To: Chode
One of thes things would pưrobably flatten a ZUS banlieu in short order.
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:27:47 PM PST
by
arthurus
To: Norm Lenhart
soaking wet hot coals don’t stay hot.
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posted on
01/10/2015 2:28:34 PM PST
by
arthurus
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