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[Moghjubar]

Soviet T-54 tank armed with a jet engine for detecting and clearing out minefields with blasts of heat.

Ah, so instead of sucking, it blows.

[kingfisher1112]

Speaking of tanks and sport. Have you heard about tank biathlon?

Wow, they have tanks that can shoot 1800 kilometres? Told you Russia was going to invade.

[Guardian G.I.]

Speaking of tanks and sport. Have you heard about tank biathlon?

Wow, they have tanks that can shoot 1800 kilometres? Told you Russia was going to invade.

Russians (and Belarusians, and Ukrainians, and all the former Soviet Union) use comma as a decimal mark.
1,800 km = 1.800 km = 1800 metres

[Blargityblarg]

Speaking of tanks and sport. Have you heard about tank biathlon?

Wow, they have tanks that can shoot 1800 kilometres? Told you Russia was going to invade.

Something tells me that's a European decimal point, not an English-speaking thousands marker.

fakeedit: ninja

[Sergarr]

Soviet T-54 tank armed with a jet engine for detecting and clearing out minefields with blasts of heat.

Ah, so instead of sucking, it blows.

*cue supersonic tomato*

[jimboo]

It is a pretty cool photo.  Still, you have to wonder about engineers who don’t have history books.  The whole tank-as-minefield-clearer was pretty much worked out in the ‘40s – a tank with a rotating cylinder in the front with multiple chains/flails.  Works well.  Problem is, they’re slow moving/great targets.  With the retrofit top, it’s hard to identify as a T54 but, whatever.  The most b.a. tank made by the Wehrmacht was the Tiger II, considered invincible at 70 tons – until the P-51 showed that any tank is pretty vulnerable on the top to air attack.  King Tigers were taken out by wing-mounted bazookas on airplanes, imagine what a hellfire from a drone would do to anything in the DMZ.  Then imagine the conversation in the control room in Syracuse or wherever; “Hey, Bob, come see this thing, you’re not gonna believe it!”         

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/21968-big-scary-tank/
Maybe better at oilfield fires than minesweeping.

[kingfisher1112]

Speaking of tanks and sport. Have you heard about tank biathlon?

Wow, they have tanks that can shoot 1800 kilometres? Told you Russia was going to invade.

Russians (and Belarusians, and Ukrainians, and all the former Soviet Union) use comma as a decimal mark.
1,800 km = 1.800 km = 1800 metres

Oh, alright. Just the fact that they wrote 1.800 confused me. Shouldn't it be 1.8?

[MonkeyHead]

Not if you wanted to show that it was bang on to 3 SF. Though I really doubt that.

[Steelmagic]

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/21968-big-scary-tank/
Maybe better at oilfield fires than minesweeping.

Because tanks and jet engines were invented for each other to fight fires.

[Guardian G.I.]

On the topic of battle tractors, Syrian rebels use them too!

[Max White]

So... Has anybody yet had the chance to weaponize a pope-mobile? I mean they go through a few of them, so there must be a second hand prayer buggy market, and they are already bullet proof...

[misko27]

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/21968-big-scary-tank/
Maybe better at oilfield fires than minesweeping.

Because tanks and jet engines were invented for each other to fight fires.

Jesus, do soviets just attach anything they want to be mobile to a tank and call it a day?!?

[stabbymcstabstab]

Thats less soviet and more Eastern European, I saw a photo that looked like a ship's gun on a tank once.

[Bauglir]

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/21968-big-scary-tank/
Maybe better at oilfield fires than minesweeping.

Because tanks and jet engines were invented for each other to fight fires.

Jesus, do soviets just attach anything they want to be mobile to a tank and call it a day?!?

Why would that be a problem?

[Vattic]

On the topic of sticking guns on things.