sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 20 days ago"Big Wind"—A fire engine made by mounting two MiG-21 jet engines onto a Soviet T-34 tank chassis to blow out Kuwaiti oil fires like a candlelemmy.todayimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down13
arrow-up1214arrow-down1image"Big Wind"—A fire engine made by mounting two MiG-21 jet engines onto a Soviet T-34 tank chassis to blow out Kuwaiti oil fires like a candlelemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 20 days agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squareDanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·19 days agoThis 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.
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 days agoIt was a joke. Sorry, I thought that would be obvious.
minus-squareTaldan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days agoIs 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
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