This genuinely look like some shit we would have on Command & Conquer original games
Right down to brightly colored parts so you can see which player it belongs to.
I didn’t know Kuwait was playing Orks
How much gas does it use?
Yes.
Would highly recommend the full doc that shows why Big Wind was made - Fires of Kuwait (1992) [36:05]
Invidious link - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-tUzkF_Dp8M
Used only once. The fire blew out and the tank was last seen at 35,000 feet over Saudi Arabia.
This isnt true I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
There’s some footage of it doing its thing and it really does seem to blow it out like a candle.
It was a joke. Sorry, I thought that would be obvious.
Is the footage you’re referring to oil fires in a desert? Because that’s Kuwait. It’s the only video of Big Wind that I can find
Technically it was used a couple more times in Hungary, but to poor results and no fanfare
Looks almost like a mammoth tank from Tiberian Sun.
Do they sing happy birthday before they turn this on?
Y’all should go watch Fires of Kuwait which is about how the world mobilized to help extinguish the oil field fires. Using novel machines like these and dynamite to extinguish and cap burning well heads.
Of course they used a T-34 chassis lmao.
Cold war era jet engines on a WWII tank for extra doohickery
With the guy in red in front it looks like something straight out of the old Dune II strategy game. A Harkonnen tank or something.
how does that even work…? and wouldn’t the thrust push that thing like a sled?
The jetstream is mixed with water to create a high pressure mist cloud, which puts out the fire. Here is a video. They turn on the jet engine at 0:26
Awesome af
Two big fat jets of 750mph wind and an insane 220 gallons a second of water mixed into the air stream, according to the article.
Tanks are also very heavy.
I somewhat question the 220gpm per second figure. That seems maybe too high. You know those big streams of water you see coming from ladder trucks for building fires? It would take the equivalent of 12 or 13 of those to flow that much water. It’s just a whole fucking lot of water. Fill a swimming pool in 1 minute.
Well, it’s a tank.
Fighter jets are made of all kinds of advanced lightweight materials to keep their weight down and make flight possible. The engines are the heaviest parts on the aircraft.
This is a tank.
Tanks are famously heavy and have a smidgen more terrain friction than a sled
They probably don’t rev it up past the point where the sled gets pushed 🤷
maybe it’s also strapped down somehow.
Bah! Soviet propaganda! The American Red Adair could put fires out just by glaring at them!
Once upon a time explosives were used to remove the oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere
This essentially does the same thing, it’s smothering the fire
The man who really put that on the map - Red Adair - is shown in the movie Hellfighters.
Worth a watch because it does a good job showing just how insanely dangerous it is putting out a well fire.
There’s some real footage of Red and his team in it.
No. Not at all.
Explosives create a vacuum, removing one of three components needed for a fire to burn, in this case oxygen.
The jet engines do not create a vacuum. They also remove one of the three needed components, but it is not oxygen. It is the heat that gets removed.
So totally different concepts.
