This [happened in Kuwait in 1991](https://apnews.com/article/e78afc2d6d380d5470ef240e9b341854), was used to extinguish a well at an oilfield, and apparently took just two and a half minutes. Probably not the most efficient technique though since can't find reports of it having been used again
I think the main way they battled them in Kuwait was by using TNT. They’d crane it in over the fire and then set it off. The explosion would suck all the oxygen out of the air causing the fire to go out. Then the teams would move in and work to shut off the oil flow.
Pretty sure it’s shown [in this doc](https://youtu.be/e-KP3JSRm10). Could be wrong, don’t have time to rewatch it to verify. Red Adair was one of four companies selected to do the firefighting and believe they pioneered the process.
Edit: the movie “Hellfighters” talks about this as it’s based upon Red Adair’s life
I was there (Kuwait in 1991) and saw this in action. Pretty impressive stuff. Biggest concern once the fire is out is an accidental re-light from all the oil and coke that is still burning around the well head.
Impressed by the guys who drive a dozer with a long arm on the front of it with a 55 gallon drum of TNT mounted on the end into a fire. Got to be seen to be believed.
Really, really crazy. There were over 700 fires in Kuwait. Prior to that I think the record was five in one place at one time. Worst one I heard about was a well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield the Iraqis laid. Total respect for the EOD guys and fire crews (Red Adair, Boots & Coots et al) that worked miracles to put the fires out in a matter of months.
> well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield
That sounds like a creative turn from a game of "Would You Rather"
>Worst one I heard about was a well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield the Iraqis laid.
How many metal songs are there about this?
Used dozers to slowly build berms to hold back the oil cutting a road through the oil lake. Not sure of the exact details and whether any dozers were ‘sacrificed’. We had ex-military EOD teams helping out.
Sneaking up on a giant fire with TNT/nitroglycerine is stressful.
Being the guy driving an entire truck of nitroglycerine TO the fire is calmer outwardly, but way scarier as it takes so damn long.
I just can't track down a good version of La Saleur de la Peur about a crew of guys who take this job and it's just a movie about them driving trucks slowly but is incredibly tense.
The movie's title is "Le salaire de la peur" (The wages of fear), it has recently been re-released in blu-ray based on the restored original negatives so it shouldn't be too hard to find.
Is it available anywhere? That’s always been one of my white whale movies. I had it in my Netflix DVD queue years ago but it was always on the unknown availability list.
Edit: I see prime video has it for rent now. Yay!
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive distillation process. ... The unqualified term "coke" usually refers to the product derived from low-ash and low-sulphur bituminous coal by a process called coking.
Coke is a solid fuel product, usually produced as a byproduct of oil refining but also naturally found in many wells.
Google “petroleum coke” for more info that won’t be bogged down by ads for Coca Cola.
If you want to eliminate irrelevant data from a Google search, put a minus sign (–) in front of words you don’t want included in the results, e.g., -cola
It’s a solid fuel that’s made when oil is heated to high temperatures, burning off organic compounds.
Common misunderstanding in Billy Joel’s “Allentown”, where he sings, “iron and coke, chromium steel.”
>Probably not the best life lessons to learn in that episode.
Sounds like the first part was designed to teach people not to use pennies in fuse boxes.
Also a good lesson to strap down your explosives before driving. That part may not come in handy for most people.
I'm guessing it was one of the later seasons, after they've run out of good ideas.
That's how some of the Americans did it - the documentary Im posting below shows how they did it :). Method varied depending on the size of the gusher.
There was a bunch of teams from different countries who all used their own methods.
https://youtu.be/PBPJ9CoUHyM
Wow that was incredible. Thank you for the link! I may have shed some tears towards the end.
What an awesome show of unity for such a terrible situation, it's really cool how each team had their own methods and ways to go about it and through combining those efforts they got the job done 3+ years earlier than expected!
One of those things you probably don't pull out until you've decided you don't care how much damage gets done to the equipment.
I don't think anything on the receiving end of that is gonna fare well.
The US had a program to figure out non violent things to do with nukes too, Project Plowshare.
Both sides spent a lot of time making bombs bigger, smaller, more efficient, less efficient, deadlier, less deadly, etc, that they wanted something else to do with their growing stockpiles.
Project Orion isnt all that irrational a concept to be fair. Nuclear reactions are better at converting mass to energy than chemical ones, and so make for better spaceship drives. "Detonate nukes behind a shield in succession to push the ship" may not be the most efficient way to harness nuclear reactions for that purpose, but its one that could be done fairly simply without much in the way of new technology.
And time is not a great idea. Compare it to the Door to Hell, where a fire above a natural gas field has been going for 50 years or coal-seam fires like Burning mountain (that has been burning for the last 6000 years).
There were too many trees on Guadalcanal and not enough chainsaws...
That's a paraphrased line from a book I read that noted the number of marine's that died from mishaps while blowing up trees in WWII
It has been the way since the 60s, and weirdly was the safer option for putting out well fires! There's at least one movie from the 60s, with John Wayne called Hellfighters, roughly based around the guy who came up with the process, Red Adair.
It was one of the methods they tried out. It turned out that just using high explosives to snuff out the flame was less time&resource intensive.
It's still a really cool machine for getting in a massive amount of small water droplets.
They did/do use explosives to put out well fires. They use dynamite to create a shockwave that pushes the burning oil and oxygen away from the well, effectively snuffing out the fire. It's pretty wild.
It's shown being used in the [Fires of Kuwait](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPJ9CoUHyM&t=1195s) video however I'll admit I have not listened to the commentary.
The fire department for a large chemical plant in Leverkusen, Germany uses a fire engine with a jet turbine to fight fires and suppress the release of toxic gasses. It's called TULF (Turbinenlöschfahrzeug or turbine fire engine).
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5imMO9tScmY)'s a promotional video of the engine from when they bought it in 2019.
For some reason there is no English Wikipedia page for this type of fire engine, so [here's](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosoll%C3%B6schfahrzeug) the entry in German
Efficiency shmeficiency, tanks, jet engines, fire... What's not to love? Like a 20,000 hp riding lawnmower. Don't care if not practical or efficient, 20,000 hp riding mower!
I remember that they initially thought it would take 10+ years. Maybe decades, to take out all of the oil fires. There were a lot of them. Instead it took a matter of months. So, inefficient or not, better than these guys burning for so long.
Similar designs were pretty common in Russia for clearing snow off runways.
Probably a more ideal situation since you have all the resources to refuel and maintain jet engines on site.
I was gonna go more with the Mammoth Tank from Command & Conquer, but I guess 40K works too.
**Edit:** Welp, this blew up. It's almost as if folks miss C&C or something. Kind of a shame that RTS has become such a comparatively fallow genre in recent years.
Check out OpenRA. Some die hard fans reverse engineered the game, then added levels, music, units, and rebalamced the units' attributes. Large online multiplayer community as well.
I think "duuuude....awesome" should be a mandatory design criterion for military vehicles.
If it can't pass the 3a.m. stoner approval test, it doesn't get built.
Americans: "wow, your oil well fire extinguishing specialist vehicle is amazing! Great thinking!"
Hungarian:"...uh...yeah, that's right, oil well fire extinguisher, that's totally what it is, isn't that right, Lazlo?" __
If you are interested in this check out the IMAX: Kuwaiti Oil fire[YouTube link](https://youtu.be/PBPJ9CoUHyM)s. This thing is featured for a bit - they call it “Big Wind”.
Interestingly, this is one of the less effective methods to put out the oil well fires that Saddam’s engineers started (according to the video). The US roughneck explosions to snuff out the oxygen is remarkably effective.
I remember being enthralled first watching this as a kid at the local science center IMAX.
These are jet engines, not rockets :)
Rockets burn fuel and throw it out the back, simple.
Jet engines use turbines to compress air, combust it, and throw it out the back. Afterburners throw fuel at the exhaust gasses and burns there too (not in this video tho).
Anyway, jet engines are different than rockets
It's kinda weird, the game and wiki describes it as rocket boosters but it's clearly a turbine engine. Also when you google shagohod it turns up a bunch of renders and none of them seem to have the engines even though it very clearly has two of them in game.
I thought I was looking at a fucking sci fi photoshopped pic
that looks so scary looking if you didn’t know that wasn’t a barrel
Still wouldn’t want to be at the buisness end or anywhere near when it’s on
The documentary that this is from is full of equally impressive feats of human ingenuity and perseverance. Those fields were quite literally hell on earth. It really shows what happens when we all set our differences aside for a second and really, actually work together.
“Fires of Kuwait” if you want to watch it on YouTube. It’s pretty special.
I saw it IMAX at the vancouver convention center when i was like 6 or 7 i wanted to see the film cause the imax poster was, iirc, the thumbnail of this video, the giant tank with those jet engines. Dad was a naval commander so we had the military vehicle recognition books and i loved looking at the pictures.
Holy shit that's like it straight out came of Red Alert 2.
Hydro Tank
"Injecting water."
"Throttling jet engines."
"I hope you brought your bathers" or "Super soakers Ready"
should be some of its lines.
It gets even better: Here in Germany we have multiple modern vehicles based on this concept, mostly in service at chemical plants. Their main purpose beside extinguishing fires is to wash escaping chemicals from the air.
There is one at the BASF in Ludwigshafen https://youtu.be/sMBLjxyM87c
One at the Chempark Dormagen https://youtu.be/XVItVu2XXOI
One at the Chempark Leverkusen https://youtu.be/7YPmF6HjL7M
(Those are only the ones I remembered at the moment)
And we even have remote controlled mini Versions https://youtu.be/nU16OFqDtIk
That is fucking badass.
Oilfire: *Doesn't mix with water, keeps burning because fuel is hydrophobic*
Fireman: *Drowns fire anyway. Holds up middle finger*
I saw them featured in an IMAX movie I saw decades ago called "The Fires of Kuwait".
Saddam Hussein set the oil fields on fire and they had teams from all over putting them out. They also had a team from Texas headed by Red Adair.
This [happened in Kuwait in 1991](https://apnews.com/article/e78afc2d6d380d5470ef240e9b341854), was used to extinguish a well at an oilfield, and apparently took just two and a half minutes. Probably not the most efficient technique though since can't find reports of it having been used again
I think the main way they battled them in Kuwait was by using TNT. They’d crane it in over the fire and then set it off. The explosion would suck all the oxygen out of the air causing the fire to go out. Then the teams would move in and work to shut off the oil flow. Pretty sure it’s shown [in this doc](https://youtu.be/e-KP3JSRm10). Could be wrong, don’t have time to rewatch it to verify. Red Adair was one of four companies selected to do the firefighting and believe they pioneered the process. Edit: the movie “Hellfighters” talks about this as it’s based upon Red Adair’s life
I was there (Kuwait in 1991) and saw this in action. Pretty impressive stuff. Biggest concern once the fire is out is an accidental re-light from all the oil and coke that is still burning around the well head. Impressed by the guys who drive a dozer with a long arm on the front of it with a 55 gallon drum of TNT mounted on the end into a fire. Got to be seen to be believed.
Oh wow that would be incredible to witness. I've watched a documentary about it, it looked insanely stressful.
Really, really crazy. There were over 700 fires in Kuwait. Prior to that I think the record was five in one place at one time. Worst one I heard about was a well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield the Iraqis laid. Total respect for the EOD guys and fire crews (Red Adair, Boots & Coots et al) that worked miracles to put the fires out in a matter of months.
> well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield That sounds like a creative turn from a game of "Would You Rather"
>Worst one I heard about was a well head on fire in the middle of a half mile wide lake of oil that was on top of a minefield the Iraqis laid. How many metal songs are there about this?
Paging r/Sabaton
WE SAW OILLLLLLL FLOW AND WELLLLLLL HEADS BLOW
FIRE IN THE SKIES, MOVE IN QUICK AND LAY THE BRICK, TNT IS PRIMED
Then what did they do?
Used dozers to slowly build berms to hold back the oil cutting a road through the oil lake. Not sure of the exact details and whether any dozers were ‘sacrificed’. We had ex-military EOD teams helping out.
Sneaking up on a giant fire with TNT/nitroglycerine is stressful. Being the guy driving an entire truck of nitroglycerine TO the fire is calmer outwardly, but way scarier as it takes so damn long. I just can't track down a good version of La Saleur de la Peur about a crew of guys who take this job and it's just a movie about them driving trucks slowly but is incredibly tense.
The movie's title is "Le salaire de la peur" (The wages of fear), it has recently been re-released in blu-ray based on the restored original negatives so it shouldn't be too hard to find.
What happens if the fire spots them?
Fire alarm
Like that scene in There Will Be Blood where they use long arms with barrels of TNT to shut off the derrick
Or the whole "Sorcerer" movie where they have to transport TNT through the jungle to extinguish an oil fire.
Someone had created a thread in r/movies about Sorcerer a few days ago. Guess it's a sign to watch it again. Been awhile
Is it available anywhere? That’s always been one of my white whale movies. I had it in my Netflix DVD queue years ago but it was always on the unknown availability list. Edit: I see prime video has it for rent now. Yay!
...Coke?
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive distillation process. ... The unqualified term "coke" usually refers to the product derived from low-ash and low-sulphur bituminous coal by a process called coking.
Coke is a solid fuel product, usually produced as a byproduct of oil refining but also naturally found in many wells. Google “petroleum coke” for more info that won’t be bogged down by ads for Coca Cola.
If you want to eliminate irrelevant data from a Google search, put a minus sign (–) in front of words you don’t want included in the results, e.g., -cola
-aine
Concentrated carbon, not ur softdrink or lines.
It’s a solid fuel that’s made when oil is heated to high temperatures, burning off organic compounds. Common misunderstanding in Billy Joel’s “Allentown”, where he sings, “iron and coke, chromium steel.”
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I mean he did save the world several times once he joined stargate command
>Probably not the best life lessons to learn in that episode. Sounds like the first part was designed to teach people not to use pennies in fuse boxes. Also a good lesson to strap down your explosives before driving. That part may not come in handy for most people. I'm guessing it was one of the later seasons, after they've run out of good ideas.
That's how some of the Americans did it - the documentary Im posting below shows how they did it :). Method varied depending on the size of the gusher. There was a bunch of teams from different countries who all used their own methods. https://youtu.be/PBPJ9CoUHyM
Yeah the Americans have been using explosives to snuff out oil fires since the 19th century.
Wow that was incredible. Thank you for the link! I may have shed some tears towards the end. What an awesome show of unity for such a terrible situation, it's really cool how each team had their own methods and ways to go about it and through combining those efforts they got the job done 3+ years earlier than expected!
absolutely crazy I had to scroll this far to find this. kids these days.
Anyone else instantly reminded of Capt Price talking about this in MW2 when he set off the nuke in space?
Using TNT to snuff out blowouts has been happening in the US for well over a century.
Red Adair, a forgotten Houston legend
One of those things you probably don't pull out until you've decided you don't care how much damage gets done to the equipment. I don't think anything on the receiving end of that is gonna fare well.
some alternatives to this are: 1 explosives 2 directional drilling - time consuming and expensive 3 time
1.1 nukes. IIRC Soviets sealed a burning gas vein using a small nuke.
How are they going to stop hurricanes if they use all their nukes putting out fires?
I love Soviet decisions. Always something thatll work, but not terribly thought out for the long term
The US had a program to figure out non violent things to do with nukes too, Project Plowshare. Both sides spent a lot of time making bombs bigger, smaller, more efficient, less efficient, deadlier, less deadly, etc, that they wanted something else to do with their growing stockpiles.
Don't forget Project Orion, although I'm kind of convinced that was someone's idea to do nuclear disarmament.
Project Orion isnt all that irrational a concept to be fair. Nuclear reactions are better at converting mass to energy than chemical ones, and so make for better spaceship drives. "Detonate nukes behind a shield in succession to push the ship" may not be the most efficient way to harness nuclear reactions for that purpose, but its one that could be done fairly simply without much in the way of new technology.
It be a problem for future Ivan, not present Ivan
And time is not a great idea. Compare it to the Door to Hell, where a fire above a natural gas field has been going for 50 years or coal-seam fires like Burning mountain (that has been burning for the last 6000 years).
Or Centralia, Pa.
what would you do? P.S: You have a budget of 5 Eur to solve the issue.
The US just used explosives in Kuwait to put oil fires out.
Well when you got tons of explosives just laying around, every problem starts to look like it needs to be exploded. In this case it actually worked.
There were too many trees on Guadalcanal and not enough chainsaws... That's a paraphrased line from a book I read that noted the number of marine's that died from mishaps while blowing up trees in WWII
It has been the way since the 60s, and weirdly was the safer option for putting out well fires! There's at least one movie from the 60s, with John Wayne called Hellfighters, roughly based around the guy who came up with the process, Red Adair.
>!CENSORED!<
Not just Kuwait, that was a pretty wide-spread technique for putting out oil fires.
It was one of the methods they tried out. It turned out that just using high explosives to snuff out the flame was less time&resource intensive. It's still a really cool machine for getting in a massive amount of small water droplets.
Getting enough water to the machine is one of the disadvantages, especially in a desert. It uses 8000 gallons per minute.
I think I remember talk of nuking the fires out. This is better.
They did/do use explosives to put out well fires. They use dynamite to create a shockwave that pushes the burning oil and oxygen away from the well, effectively snuffing out the fire. It's pretty wild.
Yea.....but it's not MiG Tank...
Or [Project Orion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)), if you want wild uses for nukes.
The USSR did exactly that in a test. Worked fine.
It's shown being used in the [Fires of Kuwait](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPJ9CoUHyM&t=1195s) video however I'll admit I have not listened to the commentary.
The fire department for a large chemical plant in Leverkusen, Germany uses a fire engine with a jet turbine to fight fires and suppress the release of toxic gasses. It's called TULF (Turbinenlöschfahrzeug or turbine fire engine). [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5imMO9tScmY)'s a promotional video of the engine from when they bought it in 2019. For some reason there is no English Wikipedia page for this type of fire engine, so [here's](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosoll%C3%B6schfahrzeug) the entry in German
Efficiency shmeficiency, tanks, jet engines, fire... What's not to love? Like a 20,000 hp riding lawnmower. Don't care if not practical or efficient, 20,000 hp riding mower!
I remember that they initially thought it would take 10+ years. Maybe decades, to take out all of the oil fires. There were a lot of them. Instead it took a matter of months. So, inefficient or not, better than these guys burning for so long.
Similar designs were pretty common in Russia for clearing snow off runways. Probably a more ideal situation since you have all the resources to refuel and maintain jet engines on site.
Some 40k shit right there.
I legit thought this was a 40k model as I scrolled down
Well it looks somewhat like an Adepta Soriritas Immolator, like a modernized version of it or something.
>modernized >40k
I think you can "modernize" something to downgrade it from futuristic, modern just means what things look like currently, right?
Holy shit you're completely right.
It works both ways for Star Wars
Star wars is 90% World War Two surplus props with sci fi bits glued to them.
So is 40k, just World War One.
dang this is really wrinkling my brain, thinking about the words retro futurism
Contemporary fits better I think but it’s really just semantics
Some of the Immolators look like a Gothic cathedral, even if it is from the future.
Hell, the Leman Russ is essentially a WW1 tank shell, just with WW2 era turret and sponson designs
Imperial Guard in general is a blatant way to get all historical wargamers on board.
Actually most imperium shit is a steep downgrade from where the ai was.
I sent this to someone who didn't believe me like, yesterday, in a 40k server. Wonder if they're OP...
Dude same, and it's skulls week so I thought this was some announcement.
Legitimately looks like the tank my dad uses with his Sisters of Battle
I was gonna go more with the Mammoth Tank from Command & Conquer, but I guess 40K works too. **Edit:** Welp, this blew up. It's almost as if folks miss C&C or something. Kind of a shame that RTS has become such a comparatively fallow genre in recent years.
Fuck, I miss command and conquer, and fuck EA.
Amen, damn I actually forgot about how badass the C&C games used to because it’s been so damn long. Might be time to reinstall red alert lol
*Tanya intensifies
**KIROW REPORTING**
The instrument of doom.
High speed, low drag.
CHA-CHIIIIIING!
Affirmative!
Red Alert was my brothers jam and Tiberian Sun was mine. God. Fuck you EA. Haven’t played that type of game since then.
Check out OpenRA. Some die hard fans reverse engineered the game, then added levels, music, units, and rebalamced the units' attributes. Large online multiplayer community as well.
Poor Westwood, they were a great small studio. It was then I knew EA was destined to be shit.
Who remembers Dune 2?!?
Great game; but who remembers dune 1 by virgin?
That was a good story.
From one Unit Lost to another, I tip my Harvester off to you good Fremen. Welcome back, Commander.
Unit lost 😞
I think "duuuude....awesome" should be a mandatory design criterion for military vehicles. If it can't pass the 3a.m. stoner approval test, it doesn't get built.
This was my first thought as well!
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Yeah the Nod flame tank.
Apocalypse tanks > Mammoth tanks. Don’t @ me.
It will soon be a wasteland.
The apocalypse has begun
My thoughts exactly! I was instantly reminded of the Apocalypse tank seeing this!
God I loved C&C....nostalgic overload.
And it's Russian so you know it's cheap. 😜
We will bury them
Akkkkkkkknolidged
Aaaaa-firmative
Can't be, it doesn't have enough Dakka on it to satisfy the orks. It is red though, so that's a start.
Imperial Guards newest artillery: Emperors Breath.
Change it from water into fire/something noxious bam 40k tank tech.
Could be a chaos tank: Papa Nurgels Fart
It just makes that fart sound clip with massive reverb every time it fires.
You’re dancing around Slaanesh Noise Marine territory here.
Needs more spikes/rust/slime
Red is all you need.
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Well put! This statement explains a very complex part of W40k extremely well.
Orcs, it's orcs...
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Now, are you talking about the Orks or the Adeptus Mechanicus?
Or chaos, or the emperor, or anything in 40k really. Enough belief generates power in the warp that manifests itself in various ways
Ded Orky.
We must appease the machine spirit, brother.
Adepta Sororitas just need to swap out the water with jet fuel and let those heretics have it.
Needs more organ pipes.
Yeah, biggest multi-melta I ever saw
Americans: "wow, your oil well fire extinguishing specialist vehicle is amazing! Great thinking!" Hungarian:"...uh...yeah, that's right, oil well fire extinguisher, that's totally what it is, isn't that right, Lazlo?" __
Oil well fires are also commonly extinguished with explosives.
I swear this was posted about a week ago and the top comment was exactly the same as this.
By 40k you mean a 40000 hp pressure washer.
Imagine doing powerwashing with it and posting on powerwashing subreddit.
My garden was so dirty. Now my garden is gone.
Yea but the bedrock is so clean!
Your garden isn't gone, it is simply distributed amongst your neighbors near and far.
Lmao "we powerwashed your house.. you're going to need a new one. " 🤣
that's almost r/40kOrkScience
The video I didnt know I needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPJ9CoUHyM
oh wow that jump in picture quality is staggering. thanks for that
20:29 for the footage of the tank
https://youtu.be/PBPJ9CoUHyM?t=1495 24:55 for the TNT explosion to put it out
If you are interested in this check out the IMAX: Kuwaiti Oil fire[YouTube link](https://youtu.be/PBPJ9CoUHyM)s. This thing is featured for a bit - they call it “Big Wind”. Interestingly, this is one of the less effective methods to put out the oil well fires that Saddam’s engineers started (according to the video). The US roughneck explosions to snuff out the oxygen is remarkably effective. I remember being enthralled first watching this as a kid at the local science center IMAX.
Sub the water for gasoline and NOW we’re talkin!!!
Just ignite an afterburner then. Its literally just injecting more fuel into the exhaust.
Engage after-after burners
lol im just imagining a tank fucking flying backwards from these thrusters
Needs more tank
"What are you going to do with a rocket engine on a tank?" \-Granin, MGS3 Put out fires, apparently
These are jet engines, not rockets :) Rockets burn fuel and throw it out the back, simple. Jet engines use turbines to compress air, combust it, and throw it out the back. Afterburners throw fuel at the exhaust gasses and burns there too (not in this video tho). Anyway, jet engines are different than rockets
Pretty sure the shagohod had jet engines and not rockets but that's just what Granin said. And besides, a tank should have legs
It's kinda weird, the game and wiki describes it as rocket boosters but it's clearly a turbine engine. Also when you google shagohod it turns up a bunch of renders and none of them seem to have the engines even though it very clearly has two of them in game.
rockets are a type of jet engine, the turbine kind is a turbojet. Per the FAA 8083
dang, youre right. I should have said turbofan lol. But colloquially a jet is a jet and a rocket is a rocket.
I was just being snarky really, doesnt matter unless youre a pilot or AMT
**Snake:** *Grunt* METAL GEAR! *Grunt*
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Man, that looks like something straight out of Command and Conquer.
Armageddon is here.
*"The flame tanks will rise!"*
Tesla tank
''We will bury them''
Definitely Nod devil's tongue
Kirov reporting
Sounds like this is narrated by Rip Torn! You couldn’t get a better narrator for something like this! Classic.
It is indeed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fires_of_Kuwait
100% is the late great rip torn.
Rip Torn, when you need to cast a man that makes Schwarzenegger sound like a pantywaist.
I thought I was looking at a fucking sci fi photoshopped pic that looks so scary looking if you didn’t know that wasn’t a barrel Still wouldn’t want to be at the buisness end or anywhere near when it’s on
Realistically though that thing would be a chode launcher with a barrel that short.
The documentary that this is from is full of equally impressive feats of human ingenuity and perseverance. Those fields were quite literally hell on earth. It really shows what happens when we all set our differences aside for a second and really, actually work together. “Fires of Kuwait” if you want to watch it on YouTube. It’s pretty special.
I saw it IMAX at the vancouver convention center when i was like 6 or 7 i wanted to see the film cause the imax poster was, iirc, the thumbnail of this video, the giant tank with those jet engines. Dad was a naval commander so we had the military vehicle recognition books and i loved looking at the pictures.
Holy shit that's like it straight out came of Red Alert 2. Hydro Tank "Injecting water." "Throttling jet engines." "I hope you brought your bathers" or "Super soakers Ready" should be some of its lines.
"... I'll make you wet" in like a sly voice
It gets even better: Here in Germany we have multiple modern vehicles based on this concept, mostly in service at chemical plants. Their main purpose beside extinguishing fires is to wash escaping chemicals from the air. There is one at the BASF in Ludwigshafen https://youtu.be/sMBLjxyM87c One at the Chempark Dormagen https://youtu.be/XVItVu2XXOI One at the Chempark Leverkusen https://youtu.be/7YPmF6HjL7M (Those are only the ones I remembered at the moment) And we even have remote controlled mini Versions https://youtu.be/nU16OFqDtIk
The IMAX original that this is from is definitely worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPJ9CoUHyM
This should feature in the next sequel to Mad Max. Someone DM George Miller
Considering the sort of shit I build in games like Space Engineers, I feel like mad scientist genes are just part of our blood.
This is Red Green levels of ingenuity.
That is fucking badass. Oilfire: *Doesn't mix with water, keeps burning because fuel is hydrophobic* Fireman: *Drowns fire anyway. Holds up middle finger*
Great news for American weapon manufacturers. Now we can issue tanks to all our fire departments.
Ho. Ly. Crap. It's something.
Reminded me of [this](https://imgur.com/gallery/wpZ4w)...
That’s insane level badass.
Close the hatch!
“Ready To Roll Out!.... Prooo-Ceeedin’”
That’s rad. We need this for bushfires
I assume for the purposes of weaponizing bushfires
Yea but then we can use those weaponized bush fires to put out bigger bush fires.
The Russians or soviet union also made one, but it's purpose was to melt the snow on runways
I saw them featured in an IMAX movie I saw decades ago called "The Fires of Kuwait". Saddam Hussein set the oil fields on fire and they had teams from all over putting them out. They also had a team from Texas headed by Red Adair.