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Bookmark or Share- Cross between a T-34 Tank & MiG-21 Jet. Putting oil well fires out like ...With the tough body of a now-obsolete tank and civilian guns made from military jet engines, Big Wind is the Frankenstein’s monster of the firefighting world – a powerful beast stitched together from the parts of dead machines.
- Record Gust, Human Grit: 90 Years of Big WindThis record, confirmed by the National Weather Bureau, still stands as the fastest wind speed ever recorded at a staffed, non-automated station. It is here that we turn our attention to the great human effort behind this endeavor.
- This tank-jet hybrid was used to put out oil fires set by Saddam“Big Wind” is a 92,600-pound beast made from a tank chassis and two turbojet engines that are powerful enough to blow out oil fires like candles on a birthday cake. While it looks ridiculous and would be nearly useless in a tank fight…
- Big Wind- The God Of Hellfire • MotorPunkResembling the love child of a Transformer and a Thunderbird, Big Wind is the Top Trump of fire fighting vehicles. 2021 marks thirty years since this machine made its official debut when it helped save the world from an environmental disaster in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. Retreating from Kuwait, the Iraqi military set 700 oil wells ablaze.
- The Most Powerful Fire Engine In The World: The Big WindA group of Hungarian engineers inadvertently developed the most powerful fire engine in the world when they were initially designing a way to decontaminate old Cold War tanks. Using an old T-34 tank and two MiG 21 jet engines its fittingly called “the Big Wind” and when you see it in action you can immediately see why.
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