Based on older Russian idea, Hungarian "Big Wind" project was for the first time used to deal with Kuwait oil fires in 1991.
Using two MiG-21 engines, mounted on a T34 or T62 tank chassis, this machine can blast, at very high speed, a huge amount of fine mist of water to extinguish a resilient fires, blown out gas or oil-well fires.
Technical details
- crew: driver, controller and a fire chief
- two MiG-21 engines on T34 or T62 tank chassis
- six fire hoses, 9000 gallons/minute
- 2x 27,000lbs of thrust blowing the water at 770mph
Original Russian concept was used to blow out the snow from railways, roads or airport runways by using single Mig-15 or Mig-17 jet engine.
Simple, effective and probably very noisy.
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