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  • @ylstorage7085
    @ylstorage7085 Před 27 dny +5073

    "it saves 400,000 dollars to fire this gun for 12 seconds"

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 Před 27 dny +346

      Some fires think they can outsmart me.
      Maybe.
      *sniff*
      Maybe.
      I have yet to meet one that can outsmart water.

    • @christhompson4630
      @christhompson4630 Před 27 dny +146

      MEET THE FIRETRUCK

    • @XxDramaticBatu
      @XxDramaticBatu Před 27 dny +76

      Finally, a class to beat w+m1 pyros

    • @MrTcollinson
      @MrTcollinson Před 27 dny +176

      This is a very American unit of measurement. Dollars per gun second.

    • @nnelg8139
      @nnelg8139 Před 27 dny +37

      ​​​​@@noahwilliams8996 Flourine fires. Alkaline metal fires. Nuclear reactor fires. Underwater flares.

  • @aithwndr
    @aithwndr Před 27 dny +2672

    That burning map animation was 🔥

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 Před 27 dny +20

      Yeah that was a good touch.

    • @nawfalshafiu5694
      @nawfalshafiu5694 Před 27 dny +23

      😂saw what you did there
      Nice pun

    • @lelandbatey
      @lelandbatey Před 27 dny +43

      Burning map is @ 0:31 in the video
      In case you're like me and were looking away when the video started.

    • @gamingforfun8662
      @gamingforfun8662 Před 27 dny +1

      Volumetric smoke

    • @jt92
      @jt92 Před 27 dny +1

      Literally

  • @trappist-1d587
    @trappist-1d587 Před 27 dny +3574

    "Chill, it's just a watergun!"
    What bro pulls against me:

    • @felixleong61
      @felixleong61 Před 27 dny +43

      Bro be like:
      *The Instrument of Doom.*
      *It is Day of Judgement.*
      *Armageddon is here.*
      *Soviet power supreme.*

    • @sdHansy
      @sdHansy Před 27 dny

      Man I hate how you type / speak.

    • @WangNurMouth
      @WangNurMouth Před 27 dny +11

      Da.....for the motherland

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 27 dny +7

      I'll write your tombstone buddy

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 24 dny +1

      this is like a watergun if it was made up by a kid play-fighting during recess.

  • @ethercat.
    @ethercat. Před 27 dny +3084

    This machine is every 10-year-old boy's fantasy IRL.

    • @bunkey1
      @bunkey1 Před 27 dny +21

      When I was 10 my fantasy was a big tank

    • @WangNurMouth
      @WangNurMouth Před 27 dny +10

      That's for chumps when I was 10 I wanted the Mach 5, and I still do lol.

    • @wowplayer160
      @wowplayer160 Před 27 dny +23

      Pretty sure any large, especially tracked, vehicle is a kids fantasy.

    • @dragondev2617
      @dragondev2617 Před 27 dny +2

      @@bunkey1 SAME!

    • @gladlawson61
      @gladlawson61 Před 27 dny +2

      When I was ten I wanted the councillor from star trek next gen

  • @schwkrls
    @schwkrls Před 14 dny +250

    People: Nuclear energy is too dangerous!
    Oil industry every couple years:

    • @GM-xk1nw
      @GM-xk1nw Před 12 dny +7

      Nuclear energy IS too dangerous, that area is safe now unlike Chernobyl.

    • @YTDE426
      @YTDE426 Před 11 dny +58

      @@GM-xk1nwit’s not.

    • @enderexiusnova5213
      @enderexiusnova5213 Před 11 dny +4

      @@YTDE426 its more risky instead of dangerous id say

    • @zoxl345
      @zoxl345 Před 11 dny +1

      Please watch a informed statistics analysis of nuclear energy like the kurzgusgat video on it, oil industry has an average death 20x-50x higher per kwh generated compared to nuclear because of the invisible pollution. It's the same logic as why some people think planes are more dangerous, it's because the media likes to sh*t on it and make headlines with it to get views. Car crash happenes every hour, but nobody reports massively on them because it will just be stale news, imagine if every death caused by pollution in the air is reported, you will be one hundred percent horrified by it.​@@GM-xk1nw

    • @teejin669
      @teejin669 Před 11 dny +52

      ​@GM-xk1nw if we base our risk management off of soviet builds, we'd go back to the stone age.

  • @ktkdiabl0
    @ktkdiabl0 Před 27 dny +1365

    As a Hungarian, I'm extremely proud that you made this episode. The story behind the development of this true beast is the following. A gas well drilling accident in 1979 took 21 days to completely put out. They had a smaller unit with a MiG-15 jet engine, but the fire reignited after putting it out. Motivated by the need for a more powerful firefighting machine, there was an order for an advanced unit in 1984 that was sufficiently powerful to fight against such fires. The preceding firefighting engine had only one jet engine and three less powerful water injection ports. The tank base was from a T-55 tank. The Big Wind is still in operation, but fortunately, it didn't receive any further real tasks to put out similar fires.

    • @kangirigungi
      @kangirigungi Před 27 dny +43

      There was a gas well fire at around 2000 in Hungary, where they used this same machine to put out the fire. Unfortunately, they couldn't cap the well so they had to relight the fire until they could come up with a solution.

    • @ylstorage7085
      @ylstorage7085 Před 27 dny +15

      @7:06
      the tank base was clearly a T-34 there.
      also, jet engines are not the best for this purpose either, turbo fans should have performed a lot better

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 Před 27 dny +15

      The chassis seen at 7:05 is a T-34. Its story is more complicated, but this video gives a great shoutout to it. Love it!

    • @andrew1717xx
      @andrew1717xx Před 27 dny +3

      ​@@ylstorage7085Am I hearing a little jealousy?

    • @francikaa1
      @francikaa1 Před 27 dny +28

      @@ylstorage7085 In 1991 the first iteration, based on a T-34 chassis, was used in Kuwait to put out fires. Later it was updated to use the T-55 chassis because there were part supply issues to the old T-34 chassis, and more parts available to the newer T-55 chassis.

  • @JM-cv7nv
    @JM-cv7nv Před 27 dny +1030

    This thumbnail looked 100% like clickbait garbage but it turns out to be completely real haha. I only clicked cuz it was Real Engineering

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 Před 27 dny +25

      Yea, as a Hungarian I knew about this crazy monster, so for me it was a throwback in time to see a real engineering video about it.

    • @hugoytb194
      @hugoytb194 Před 19 dny +11

      I also found clickbait I clicked to confirm if it was clickbait If that were really the case, I would use the "do not recommend videos from this channel" option hehe. I was happy with the authenticity of the channel. Congratulations, by the way.

    • @FungkhaBasumatary1997
      @FungkhaBasumatary1997 Před 16 dny +2

      If it were any other channel I would have skipped the video too...

    • @Etendard1708
      @Etendard1708 Před 13 dny

      ​@@Sekir80who is he? I thought the guy on the thumbnail is just another AI-generated thing

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 Před 13 dny +4

      @@Etendard1708 I haven't seen this thumbnail. Real Engineering changed it. Originally it was a 3D render of the Hungarian tank/jet hybrid which looks like some sci-fi shit. That's why people considered it fake on first glance.

  • @Blaze10523
    @Blaze10523 Před 27 dny +767

    By far the most Thunderbirds looking vehicle that ive seen

    • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
      @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Před 27 dny +33

      If it's not transported by a Thunderbird 2 I'd feel my life has been pointless.

    • @RegiRaidillonVT
      @RegiRaidillonVT Před 27 dny +2

      First Helldivers and now this 💀

    • @jasyamaha
      @jasyamaha Před 27 dny +2

      Absolutely

    • @codeysimmons790
      @codeysimmons790 Před 26 dny +7

      I was looking for this exact comment. The machine is so incredible and the problem so massive that only something from the brains behind the Thunderbirds could work.

    • @Favk21
      @Favk21 Před 25 dny +3

      Exact same thoughts from me as well.

  • @mdexterc2894
    @mdexterc2894 Před 27 dny +858

    Doomslayer's watergun

    • @TheCrewExpendable
      @TheCrewExpendable Před 27 dny +4

      Lol reminds me of those arcade firefighting light gun games. They even had "boss fires" with a boss healthbar at the bottom of the screen.

    • @bbbnuy3945
      @bbbnuy3945 Před 27 dny +5

      blast & splash

    • @submachinegun5737
      @submachinegun5737 Před 27 dny +9

      For putting out the fires of hell

    • @WangNurMouth
      @WangNurMouth Před 27 dny +1

      Hahaha he just gets into the barrel instead of shooting water. Hahahaha

    • @WangNurMouth
      @WangNurMouth Před 27 dny

      Cant propel yourself at a target through a giant weapon to solve all ur problems my guy
      *doomslayers hand you his beer*

  • @majlosz21
    @majlosz21 Před 27 dny +343

    C&C unit quotes:
    "Water tank, ready to spray"
    "Let's quench their thirst"
    "Fight fire with water"
    "We will hydrate them!"

    • @smithyMcjoe
      @smithyMcjoe Před 26 dny +14

      I just heard it with the same voice as the GDIs Mammoth tank.

    • @majlosz21
      @majlosz21 Před 26 dny +11

      @@smithyMcjoe I'm hearing it with a RA2 Soviet/Eastern European accent myself, since the tank is of Hungarian make. I'm imagining if you could play as the soviets and choose Hungary as the subfaction, you'd get this special unit.

    • @mnxs
      @mnxs Před 25 dny +29

      "Wet dream, standing by."

    • @majlosz21
      @majlosz21 Před 24 dny +22

      "We will drown their sorrows"

    • @kanemartin2249
      @kanemartin2249 Před 24 dny +1

      Read this with COD4 ac130 comms voice

  • @theRunel0rd
    @theRunel0rd Před 27 dny +249

    The guy's shaking hands at 4:22 - you can tell he is fearful for whatever is about to happen when he touches that mine.

    • @ian4175
      @ian4175 Před 10 dny +6

      Considering it’s not covered in oil and there’s a camera crew filming I’d think that was some form of training but who knows.

    • @Redslayer86
      @Redslayer86 Před 6 dny

      He wouldn't be that nervous if it wasn't real.
      there's a ton of combat footage out there.
      ​@@ian4175

    • @fastinradfordable
      @fastinradfordable Před 5 dny

      @@ian4175tell the new guy the test bomb is live

    • @redactedrider7606
      @redactedrider7606 Před 3 dny +1

      Yeah training for sure. They even show the training area and the dude watching over him. You dont just go out there in your BDUs and bare hand mines lol

  • @SeseSchneider
    @SeseSchneider Před 27 dny +439

    I highly recommend the documentary film "Fires of Kuwait" (1992) which also features this machine and gives great insight into the fire fighting efforts made in Kuwait.

    • @stoshu9584
      @stoshu9584 Před 27 dny +15

      I agree, that's worth the watch. This is one of the more overlooked conflict events of its period imo

    • @sywor
      @sywor Před 27 dny +3

      It's available to watch here on youtube!

    • @T4gProd
      @T4gProd Před 27 dny +1

      Thanks for the tip, had a quick look, seems interesting!

    • @simpledragon
      @simpledragon Před 27 dny +3

      They showed the tank shoots water driving forward then they hit the jets and put out a well fire like a match.
      Wish they showed it in action.

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 Před 27 dny +3

      In that film, Safety Boss from Alberta Canada is shown to have extinguished more than half of all burning wellhead using large, off road fire trucks. Simple and massively cheaper and more deployable than this monstrosity.

  • @_Bosley
    @_Bosley Před 27 dny +386

    That thumbnail pic looks like it would make a sick Transformer 😁

    • @ChineduOpara
      @ChineduOpara Před 27 dny +8

      Transformers don't get sick 😐
      😂

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 27 dny

      Look like something Char would drive slaying tanks

  • @joshb8302
    @joshb8302 Před 27 dny +251

    11:17 I think those guys were having a bit of an argument.

    • @Eddy002
      @Eddy002 Před 27 dny +31

      😂 I thought he was gonna kiss him

    • @alyoooh
      @alyoooh Před 27 dny +20

      Yeah, I came to check if anyone else also noticed that

    • @damnwereinatightspot
      @damnwereinatightspot Před 27 dny

      Ya he was barking alright... i think 11:15

    • @sntslilhlpr6601
      @sntslilhlpr6601 Před 27 dny +10

      Yeah he was a bit heated. I wonder if it was about a safety issue.

    • @RikaRoleplay
      @RikaRoleplay Před 26 dny +3

      I was curious about that interaction as well, someone beat me to the comment

  • @axmajpayne
    @axmajpayne Před 27 dny +136

    6:36 Big Wind wasn't built on a T-62. It was originally built on a T-34 and then some time after it was used in Kuwait its turret was moved to a T-55.

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 Před 27 dny +15

      T-34 at 7:05; T-55 at 8:45.

  • @OrdenTheMan
    @OrdenTheMan Před 25 dny +55

    my dad was a firefighter that helped put out the fires. I remember him telling me stories about how big the flames were, and telling me about his team. I didn't think much of it but man was he a hero

  • @NovaAge
    @NovaAge Před 27 dny +187

    New Command & Conquer looking good.

    • @felixleong61
      @felixleong61 Před 27 dny +8

      *The Apocalypse has begun.*

    • @KevinDC5
      @KevinDC5 Před 26 dny +4

      lol it does look like the "tesla tank" from CC Red Alert! 😂

  • @user-ux5px4en8c
    @user-ux5px4en8c Před 27 dny +142

    looks like something out of a special event in war thunder.

  • @rojorohr4723
    @rojorohr4723 Před 27 dny +44

    I remember this, was 7-8yo back then; it was overwhelming and heartbreaking to see it on the news, like watching hell coming to Earth.
    This and the gulf of México spill by BP left a huge impact on my mind. Every year when I teach Environment conservation at school (I'm a highschool teacher in México), I use this cases to show my students all the damage we cause to the environment with petroleum, when we abuse, overuse and become selfish and greedy.
    Great vid, my boy.

  • @N8Claw
    @N8Claw Před 27 dny +145

    At 6:34, you say "They removed the turret from and old Soviet T-62 tank". As far as I can tell, this is False. Every source I find says that a T-34 hull was used for "Big Wind" and the footage I've seen seems to back up this claim.
    However, I did find some images that suggest that the turret was either later transferred to a T-62 hull or a version of the turret was made for the T-62 hull. This would've likely happened after these oil fires were put out though.
    After some further research, it seems that the T-34 hull was retired after the gulf fires, being replaced with the hull of a VT-55A tank according to the site CarAndDriver. (I couldn't find it anywhere else)

    • @ati847
      @ati847 Před 27 dny +19

      You are correct. In the first years it had a T-34 hull, but nowadays a T-55 recovery tank’s hull is being used. In the following video from 1:23 to 1:35 the host talking about just like that. He says that it was increasingly difficult to find new parts and people who could repair the T-34, so it was switched to a VT-55.
      czcams.com/video/YYF8YQ7pLng/video.html

    • @minidreschi2
      @minidreschi2 Před 27 dny +6

      czcams.com/video/eJuwpC4yZtg/video.html Attraktor's episode about is is better, but you guys are right. Its not a T-62, its a T-55 but it was T-34 originally.

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 Před 27 dny +11

      Yeah, at 7:05 it's clearly a T-34 chassis. Later in the video, the MOL section, it's a different one, (8:45) seems like a T-55. And thanks guys for the additional info! Great stuff!

    • @SaltyMartian
      @SaltyMartian Před 27 dny +3

      Furthermore, Hungary didn't have T-62 in the first place

    • @RussianBiasEnjoyer
      @RussianBiasEnjoyer Před 27 dny +1

      The tank shown in the older video footage was certainly a T-34, while the newer footage looks like a T-55, so your probably right

  • @cmrs521
    @cmrs521 Před 27 dny +32

    11:15 that guy was getting his ass chewed out lol

    • @ryanthomas2374
      @ryanthomas2374 Před 17 dny +1

      actually they were probably just trying to talk. Those wells were so damn loud.. 7000PSI jet stream is LOUD! the fire fighters at the base of the well would use hand signals for communication.

    • @bypy3550
      @bypy3550 Před 13 dny +1

      ​@@ryanthomas2374imagine losing valuable time by trying to understand 3 words for 5 minutes cause no one was taught an specific hand signal

  • @tonywatson987
    @tonywatson987 Před 26 dny +8

    I had the privilege to see one of these flares up close - absolutely terrifying! The noise was deafening, the heat was volcanic and the low-frequency vibrations actually shook my body, making it even more difficult to breath. The soles of my boots melted, as did the tyres on my 4X4 - I didn't stay long!

  • @Thoran666
    @Thoran666 Před 27 dny +26

    Great video and visuals. I love how this video doesn't just focus on Big Wind, since it had little impact, but on the insane task of the people in Kuwait. Some of the firefighters in the clips are not even wearing gas masks or face protection.

    • @ctdieselnut
      @ctdieselnut Před 9 dny

      Theres a great documentary on yt about this. You're right, iirc 'big wind' put out a very small percentage of wells. To think saddam did this only for spite is mind boggling to me. What an #$&%!/* !!!

  • @ericlotze7724
    @ericlotze7724 Před 27 dny +98

    Odd bit if i remember correctly the Studies of the effects of all that Soot on the atmosphere essentially proved that Nuclear *Winter* is unlikely, Nuclear Fall is probably what would happen.
    Still MASS FAMINE, and suffering, and increased cancer/birth defects etc, but that fear of Unending Nuclear Winter played/plays (Mild Citation Needed Here) a major role in people’s fear of Nuclear Weapons / the understanding of “it being unwindable”.
    Just an interesting tidbit i guess. The Environmental Devastation War brings really sucks.

    • @HALLish-jl5mo
      @HALLish-jl5mo Před 27 dny

      Nuclear winter was conceived by badly modifying a 1D simulation of the martian climate, then using 1980s nuclear stockpiles but 1960s targeting methodology, accidentally doubling the amount of combustible material in the target zones, playing around with the variables until an anomalously apocalyptic result appeared, and then publishing that.
      It was scientific fraud.
      It only avoided being laughed at because the point of the fraud was to make politicians more hesitant to use nuclear weapons. And because Carl Sagan tried to ruin anyone who critiqued him by calling them warmongers with his massive hold over the court of public opinion.

    • @PrograError
      @PrograError Před 27 dny +4

      Still, that prob worsens the climate change/ global warming problem with the amount of hazardous gas released from the fire...

    • @kostarak3160
      @kostarak3160 Před 27 dny +22

      I believe there is a difference on the height of the soot.
      During fires almost all the soot is inside the troposphere where rain clouds exist making far easier to fall back to earth while nuclear mushrooms could pull all that shoot well above lasting for significally longer.

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 Před 27 dny +9

      @@kostarak3160 yeah we need to dig for papers on the specifics, and if i remember correctly there was some report doing all the math for a “limited” India-Pakistan Nuclear War and even then it had Nuclear Fall, plus all the nasties I mentioned.

    • @kostarak3160
      @kostarak3160 Před 27 dny +2

      @@ericlotze7724 Well it depends on a lot of factors from the quantity and what materials will be burned to the regional weather patterns.
      One thing is for sure, when only all the active nuclear weapons will be fired (~4k compared to ~400 india - pakistan) most of us wont be arround to feel the effects of the nuclear winter or fall.

  • @gepin-sp7xn
    @gepin-sp7xn Před 27 dny +71

    My Father has operated this beast during a training misson in hungary

    • @Infraviored
      @Infraviored Před 27 dny +1

      No

    • @TheMysteryDriver
      @TheMysteryDriver Před 27 dny +3

      @@Infravioredyes

    • @alexromeo3495
      @alexromeo3495 Před 26 dny +1

      @@TheMysteryDriver no

    • @gepin-sp7xn
      @gepin-sp7xn Před 25 dny +2

      @Marburg-yw4nj nah in like 2000 something like i said he was a fire fighter who took part in the training to operate the enignes with the lil joy stick, he worked as a "chemical specialist" he was also one of the first reaponders to the Hungarian red mud accident

  • @foabmoab
    @foabmoab Před 27 dny +16

    'What have you got for us this time, Brains?'
    *gestures at this machine*

  • @LMacNeill
    @LMacNeill Před 17 dny +4

    I remember this happening back in '91. I remember them estimating DECADES to put them all out. They were comparing the environmental cost to Chernobyl -- they said the land would be uninhabitable for a similar period of time. Yet they got all those fires put out in about 8 months! All of those firefighters and oil & gas workers are HEROES! They did AMAZING work!!

  • @simpilot001
    @simpilot001 Před 27 dny +13

    A model of this would go crazy on Christmas

  • @MyMostBeautifuCinema
    @MyMostBeautifuCinema Před 27 dny +36

    6:42 That fence is not stopping sand.

  • @chloeholmes4641
    @chloeholmes4641 Před 27 dny +25

    Bit of a nit pick but the original model as seen in the real life video the chasis was actually from a t-34 tank, then it was later put on an extended t-55 chassis if my history serves me correct, not a t-62!

    • @aaronpohle2016
      @aaronpohle2016 Před 27 dny +1

      iam not even sure if it was ever put on a t-55 chassis from what i could find online. there was an differen fire fighting tank on the t-55 chassis but only with one engine called hurricane. and i wouldnt say it is very nit picky to point out the tank model is wrong if the whole video is about that tank. Nevertheless a great viedo, errors like this happen to the best.

    • @chloeholmes4641
      @chloeholmes4641 Před 27 dny +5

      @@aaronpohle2016 I just googled and the first two links of the firstbpage states it's a Czech VT-55 tank that it was upgraded to.
      So yes, it was a t-55 chassis!

  • @henrymelon8781
    @henrymelon8781 Před 26 dny +8

    Ngl I thought the thumbnail was click bait

  • @balintkormos9837
    @balintkormos9837 Před 27 dny +104

    This is what happens when hungarian engineers are not paid with hard liqour, biscuits, and a pack of cigarettes but actual money instead.

  • @StkyDkNMeBlz
    @StkyDkNMeBlz Před 27 dny +20

    Looks like a Command and Conquer tank

  • @real1cytv
    @real1cytv Před 27 dny +29

    Quick fun fact, the BASF Ludwigshafen uses a very similar fire truck with 2 jet engines as a normal part of its firefighting.

    • @motomarco_
      @motomarco_ Před 26 dny +1

      They not only have one, but two of the so called "Turbolöscher".
      And according to BASF they spray 6000-8000 liters of water per minute.

    • @simonargus7662
      @simonargus7662 Před 25 dny

      Came for this

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag Před 9 dny

      Bayer also has a small version. Turbine fire trucks are not common but not a one off

  • @stinkyvonfishstix4196

    im glad you brought up what a failure that machine was. they had over twenty wells they just gave up on because they couldnt do it.

  • @JoshuaC923
    @JoshuaC923 Před 27 dny +4

    Those firefighters were unsung heroes of the war, crazy job they did🫡

  • @Car_Fanatic
    @Car_Fanatic Před 27 dny +42

    So roughly over 23 billion dollars worth of oil were gone, 4 million per hour, 8 months of this. And the damage to the environment and people is just sad

    • @saranshgautam6551
      @saranshgautam6551 Před 27 dny +3

      Ahhh man if only I could have a few millions of that lost money

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 Před 27 dny

      All caused by basically a temper tantrum due to a failed war...

  • @saadhero9107
    @saadhero9107 Před 25 dny +5

    As a Kuwaiti I thank you so much for bringing such topics, I always wanted to learn about this huge disaster and how it was solved.

    • @gabrielst828
      @gabrielst828 Před 9 dny

      Maybe if you'd stop watching anime and spend more time learning about your country it wouldn't take 33 years to learn about it. Also, there's literally a great documentary about it called the Fires of Kuwait that came out in 1992.

    • @saadhero9107
      @saadhero9107 Před 9 dny

      @@gabrielst828 Ouch but you have a point, I will look into this. Already have the documentary open on another tab to check after the finals.

  • @danchitnis
    @danchitnis Před 27 dny +2

    Thank you for telling this story. I was living 100km to this area and saw how the day turned into a black sky without moon and stars. So many nations helped and worked with each other to put this disaster out.

  • @willsoe
    @willsoe Před 27 dny +16

    It's Infinitrack River Stormer!
    Earth machine kings rise up

    • @MagicNick97
      @MagicNick97 Před 27 dny +1

      Best deck ever

    • @kl1thedominion
      @kl1thedominion Před 27 dny +1

      I'm glad I didn't have to scroll far to find a comment mentioning River Stormer. RISE UP!

    • @stephangg000
      @stephangg000 Před 20 dny

      I had to scroll way to far down to find this lol. Earth machine gang

  • @DagobertX2
    @DagobertX2 Před 26 dny +4

    I remember watching this as a kid in our national tv, live. A small poorer country helping the bigger ones for greater good. I was proud of my country back then. Sadly not anymore.

  • @martint8986
    @martint8986 Před 27 dny +16

    Finally someone made a proper video on the Big Wind, this thing has fascinated me since a child, Fires of Kuwait was such a good documentary

  • @SephirothRyu
    @SephirothRyu Před 27 dny +2

    Sweet, I LOVE hearing and learning things about this thing!

  • @torqtorqtorq
    @torqtorqtorq Před 9 dny +1

    11:14 Lol those two dudes shouting in each other's faces meters from the spewing oil

  • @MartinRyleOShea
    @MartinRyleOShea Před 26 dny +6

    40K in our time “For the omnissiah, we will vanquish this flame bothers with purifying waters”

  • @danieltsimbler343
    @danieltsimbler343 Před 27 dny +5

    It's a good day when Real Engineering posts

  • @cancersillycrab
    @cancersillycrab Před 26 dny +2

    @real Engineering Correction, the tank hull shown in the live footage was a T-34 chassis (note the sloped rear plate) from WW2 and not a T-62 hull. Additionally, the CGI model used to demonstrate Big Wind is a T-55 chassis (please note the spacing of the road wheels) and the aerial footage from source MOL looks more like a T-55 as well.

  • @BensonCaisip
    @BensonCaisip Před 13 dny +2

    2 Mig21 engines mounted on top of a T-62 chassis is the most Soviet thing I ever heard.

  • @justandy333
    @justandy333 Před 27 dny +72

    What Saddam ordered his troops to do was just a pure act of spite. His army was in the process of getting their asses booted out of Kuwait so decided, "If I can't have that oil, then no one can!" With absolutely no consideration to the ecological devastation it would bring. A truly awful human being.

    • @techterror1282
      @techterror1282 Před 14 dny +9

      Anybody in his position would have done the same thing You're acting like this is absurd.

    • @justandy333
      @justandy333 Před 14 dny +26

      @@techterror1282 ummm, it IS absurd! Causing an ecological catastrophy just because you didn't get your own way is just small minded and cruel. Let's not forget it wasnt his oil to begin with, it was Kuwait's. If you were to come at me with that arguement against Iraqi oil wells, I wouldn't be happy, but it was their oil. But to do such an act on someone else's wells is just smallminded selfish and abhorrent.

    • @techterror1282
      @techterror1282 Před 14 dny

      @@justandy333 It's not normal for humans to give a s***

    • @royce9018
      @royce9018 Před 13 dny

      😂😂😂

    • @user-cq6fk5go3s
      @user-cq6fk5go3s Před 13 dny +2

      The things he did to his own people, then his soldiers did to few captured Kuwaiti soldiers who didn’t run showed what kind of person he was before this. He has them swinging from anything that could be tied off to from one end of the street to the other at the Kuwaiti naval base.

  • @Malikav0311
    @Malikav0311 Před 25 dny +19

    Sure is odd how many people in the comments have fathers that either designed, built, or operated this machine.

    • @DK33O
      @DK33O Před 11 dny +3

      Commenters with uncles/fathers/grandfathers involved with (cool historical event) are to history videos as stories of hot girlfriends from Canada are to middle school playgrounds.

  • @spacecase13
    @spacecase13 Před 27 dny +1

    Finally, a decent look at this machine that I have always loved. For making this beautiful video, you are my hero. Thank you.

  • @RyzawaVT
    @RyzawaVT Před 26 dny +1

    Kinda crazy a lot of these firefighters come from my hometown, lot of respect to fly overseas and fight what probably felt like an unwinnable battle.

  • @mauliksatasiya6664
    @mauliksatasiya6664 Před 23 dny +3

    Texas crews 357
    Canadians 176
    But who wins the show? The guys who arrived late to the party and extinguished just 9 wells. Looks matter!

  • @agnellomascarenhas8665
    @agnellomascarenhas8665 Před 27 dny +25

    Wait.. we have firetruck and fireplanes.
    NOW WE GOT A FIRE TANK?!?
    What's a next a FIREBOAT

  • @SoylentGamer
    @SoylentGamer Před 11 dny

    Huge respect to the brave firefighters and engineers that undertook this mission. They put an unbelievable amount on the line.

  • @KristovMars
    @KristovMars Před 25 dny

    Fascinating episode, thankyou.

  • @troubleq80
    @troubleq80 Před 27 dny +12

    I used to work in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). It’s the Company responsible for oil exploration and production in Kuwait. It saddens me that this video did not mention the efforts of the Kuwaiti firefighting team.
    To this day, KOC is still doing soil remediation to undo what those oil well fires have done to the soil.

  • @plica06
    @plica06 Před 26 dny +2

    13:07 Hold on. After all that, the Hungarian machine only put out... 9 fires.

  • @Mustacheman17
    @Mustacheman17 Před 16 dny +2

    Not that I don’t like the engineering heavy videos, but this doc style was amazing!!

  • @keab42
    @keab42 Před 27 dny +1

    Your graphics have gotten so good. Some fantastic shots in this one.

  • @Dhruvalization
    @Dhruvalization Před 27 dny +30

    when firefighters don't mess around

    • @dontknow3886
      @dontknow3886 Před 27 dny +3

      When do they?

    • @felixleong61
      @felixleong61 Před 27 dny +2

      Firefighters: *Soviet power supreme*

    • @Dhruvalization
      @Dhruvalization Před 27 dny

      @@dontknow3886 do they?

    • @dontknow3886
      @dontknow3886 Před 27 dny +1

      @@Dhruvalization idk i thought by you writing „firefighters dont mess around“ you were implying that they mess around all the other time

    • @Dhruvalization
      @Dhruvalization Před 27 dny +1

      @@dontknow3886 just said it as a joke, I know fire fighters don't mess around, and its extremely dangerous to be around fire... I have a little first hand experience
      lots of respect for them :)

  • @saranshgautam6551
    @saranshgautam6551 Před 27 dny +7

    What did they do with this jet engine firetruck afterwards?
    Was it dismantled? Or does it sit in a museum or something?

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 Před 27 dny +4

      I would bet it's still hanging around somewhere in case of an emergency... But I wonder...

    • @chloeholmes4641
      @chloeholmes4641 Před 27 dny +5

      Last I've heard, it's still in service

  • @TerminusCodex
    @TerminusCodex Před 26 dny

    I was quite young when that was going on and I didn't understand until now how it all happened! Thank you for yet another amazing topic explained amazingly well!

  • @Roaming-Rob
    @Roaming-Rob Před 16 dny +1

    God damn that nebula ad was so good I subscribed while it was still playing.

  • @Don_Melon
    @Don_Melon Před 27 dny +2

    I saw an old Romanian movie called "Cuibul Salamandrelor" (translated to "Salamander's Nest" in which a jet engine (possibly a MIG-15 engine) on an SR-113 truck rolls up to extinguish the blaze. I cannot find any info about the truck used, or the first time this technique was used. In the film, the jet truck also had water cannons and it had a few other SR based fire trucks next to it.

  • @fieryjustin
    @fieryjustin Před 27 dny +5

    MadMax-esque firetruck

  • @producedbypodcast
    @producedbypodcast Před 27 dny

    Never heard of this. Love your content, especially when it shows something unexpected like this. Keep it up!

  • @jeoffrey9733
    @jeoffrey9733 Před 10 dny

    Dude, the guts those reporters had to stand so close to undetonated explosives is mind bogling

  • @BlueBetaPro
    @BlueBetaPro Před 27 dny +2

    I can highly recommend watching Fires of Kuwait (1992). A real eye opener.

  • @vinny7114
    @vinny7114 Před 27 dny +3

    What Nebula is missing is good app for smarphones. But the price truly is less expensive per month than a small coffee.

  • @MenOfMeansUK
    @MenOfMeansUK Před 10 dny +1

    "how was your day in the office?"
    "A minefield, been fighting fires all day"

  • @TrainMedia00
    @TrainMedia00 Před 27 dny +1

    That fire tank looks insane, this is real mad scientist.

  • @gary_dslr2615
    @gary_dslr2615 Před 27 dny +3

    Well, that looks like something Thunderbird 2 would drop out of pod 5 🤩

  • @0xdeadbeef444
    @0xdeadbeef444 Před 27 dny +3

    Never really thought about that every one of these fires needed to be put out.

    • @PrograError
      @PrograError Před 27 dny

      no shit mate... it's like a leaky canteen in the middle of the desert and the nearest oasis/ water point is miles and miles away... and you are basically half dead...

  • @ichbin1984
    @ichbin1984 Před 27 dny

    Wow. I never knew these fires existed. This look absolutely spectacular and perverse.

  • @Some-Guy-
    @Some-Guy- Před 27 dny +9

    There was actually a few seconds of content about the firefighting machine hidden away in this video.

    • @bikeny
      @bikeny Před 27 dny

      Thanks to you I was able to skip ahead to find those bits. Appreciated. Especially as the background music gets in the way of his narration (well, any host that plays background music has their narration/dialogue messed up with music being played at the same time).
      I am curious if they had asked Red Adair for help.

    • @mh6276
      @mh6276 Před 27 dny +1

      Are you saying that this video is not a masterpiece? I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in months (that does have to do with the topic and less the video but the topic makes in amazing). And there is at least 5 minutes about the machine in the video.

  • @CS2architecture
    @CS2architecture Před 27 dny +3

    176 capped wells... wow. The Canadien fire fighting team got the job done (no doubt). Eventhough this Hungarian firetruck (firetank?) only capped 9 oil wells, the Hungarian firetruck was the dopest looking fire fighting machine. Most badass firetruck in existence.

  • @Foppopski
    @Foppopski Před 27 dny

    Im signing up RIGHT NOW!
    I need to see that EP!

  • @ericlotze7724
    @ericlotze7724 Před 27 dny +1

    5:13 WILD. I never would have thought of that but it makes sense! Now i want to dig for some pictures of all that, must have been a sight to see, entire formations emerging looking almost alien to the surrounding sand.

  • @HolyNorthAmericanEmpire
    @HolyNorthAmericanEmpire Před 8 dny +3

    Casually ignoring that Kuwait also drilled into Iraqi oil fields...

  • @choty7066
    @choty7066 Před 26 dny +38

    Me after taco bell

  • @TwinTailsRyu
    @TwinTailsRyu Před 25 dny +2

    dude that beast looks like something from the future

  • @Halapep
    @Halapep Před 27 dny

    As always, great quality content!
    Harsh topic but awesome visuals my man

  • @aquilaFUN
    @aquilaFUN Před 27 dny +20

    The more I learn about Iraq under Saddam, the less sorry I feel for 2003, not gonna lie

    • @atharv5585
      @atharv5585 Před 15 dny

      USA killed hundreds of thousands of civilians for no reason

    • @firstwolfplus
      @firstwolfplus Před 13 dny

      Empathy Check FAILED

    • @matheusalves3525
      @matheusalves3525 Před 11 dny

      lol right people feel bad for saddam?????

    • @throwback19841
      @throwback19841 Před 8 dny

      ​@@matheusalves3525I think it's all the dead Iraqis, civil war and instability they feel sorry for, not Saddam

  • @suhass5710
    @suhass5710 Před 27 dny +3

    This type of thumbnail should be illegal
    Damn i click it 😩

  • @witchdoctor6502
    @witchdoctor6502 Před 27 dny +1

    This just proves that sometimes more power is really the answer... I remeber that a jet engine was also used by railway to defrost the switches, not as impressive as this but again a creative use of a jet engine.

  • @dedracingteam
    @dedracingteam Před 25 dny

    Très enrichissant les boys. Bravo ! 👌

  • @kevikiru
    @kevikiru Před 27 dny +6

    Saddam in this case is what we call a Sore Looser!

  • @custos3249
    @custos3249 Před 27 dny +3

    Also, really makes ya wonder where the world would be if we'd invested in solar and wind long back when we should've rather than continuing to be reliant on this instability.

    • @Quicks1lvr
      @Quicks1lvr Před 26 dny

      The world would be filled with even more strip mines then, along with the tons of trash from wind when the turbines stop. Not only that these 2 sources are dependent on the weather. Anything less than nuclear is a joke

  • @aririzkirivaldo173
    @aririzkirivaldo173 Před 8 dny

    I already hit like button under 1 minute mark of the video. Your graphic are awesome!

  • @miltonb4522
    @miltonb4522 Před 20 hodinami

    One of the boots and coots guys was a company man on a site I was on an about 8 years ago. We actually went through and watched Fires of Kuwait on his recommendation while we waited for some tools to show up.

  • @jackalovski1
    @jackalovski1 Před 27 dny +10

    As long as these wells are still in use, that oil is still being burned and still being released into the atmosphere. Every day thousands of times this oil is burned but because it’s burned in car engines it’s invisible to us.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 Před 27 dny +6

      It's being burned much cleaner though, after refining and exhaust after treatment.
      Black sooty fires are horrifically dirty.

    • @dr.cheeze5382
      @dr.cheeze5382 Před 27 dny +1

      I'd like to hear someone knowledgeable talk about this. Surely refined petrol products produce less pollution than pure unrefined oil? Then again, the refining process could produce even more waste than just burning the oil.

    • @crackedemerald4930
      @crackedemerald4930 Před 27 dny

      ​@@volvo09it's probably burnt much cleaner, as it's not atomizing raw crude oil into the atmosphere. but it's not like shitty evil sulphurous oil isn't burnt too, and even the cleaner burning stuff is being burnt at a much bigger volume.

    • @crackedemerald4930
      @crackedemerald4930 Před 27 dny

      ​@@dr.cheeze5382i vaguely remember refining oil being terribly energy efficient.

  • @omristoliarevsky4704
    @omristoliarevsky4704 Před 27 dny +3

    One of the first I guess

  • @nowistime8070
    @nowistime8070 Před 13 dny

    I was a teenager when this happened and didnt know the details until now. thank you

  • @serpico1616
    @serpico1616 Před 25 dny +1

    Fantastic episode!

  • @ahmedsaoudi2344
    @ahmedsaoudi2344 Před 27 dny +8

    Even if we disregard everything else he did, this incident here is way more than enough reasons to dispose of Saddam Hussein. What a terrible person.

  • @observantmagic4156
    @observantmagic4156 Před 27 dny +4

    First

  • @list1726
    @list1726 Před 27 dny

    Thanks for posting

  • @Vysair
    @Vysair Před 10 dny

    Literally a Command & Conquer asset

  • @Vixcis
    @Vixcis Před 27 dny +5

    No feminists in sigh in this video.