Russian tank with fighter engines. Its use will surprise you

Oil well fires are not easy to extinguish and snow-covered airport runways require an enormous amount of work to restore them to full operational efficiency. Therefore, the Russians decided to find an unusual solution for this, and this is how trucks with jet engines mounted on them were created. On this basis, over time, a Russian tank with fighter engines was created.

Although the Russian tank with fighter engines sounds like a road conqueror, it runs at just 4.8 km / h

Known as the Big Wind and the Windy, this probably the largest fire engine in the world was created thanks to Hungarian engineers who decided to combine the T-34 and MiG 21 with each other. caterpillars, but in reality its nature is completely non-combatant.

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Its history was recently recalled by Car and Driver, mentioning that in this project the traditional T-34 turret was replaced by a special platform with two MiG-21 fighter engines, each just over 3 meters long. However, their role is not to lift the tank into the skies, but to spray the water supplied to the engine outlets through six nozzles onto the target at a speed of almost 1240 km / h. Replace the water supply with a flammable mixture, and voila, the vision of a great flamethrower will nevertheless come true.

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The principle of extinguishing a fire with the use of such equipment requires three trained personnel to operate engineers operators is simple. The jet jets cut off the fire from the air, i.e. access to oxygen, and the atomized water cools the area, preventing re-ignition. It is in extinguishing oil well fires that allows you to get rid of the problem quickly and effectively.