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JimWeb · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: Ram tank with go faster device?

It is a Ram isn't it?

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Obviously for a quick retreat! Maybe it was made for the French army! (Winky!)

Doug_Kibbey

Have seen several similar devices being used for road/runway clearance of ice/snow. Odd that it points straight back, though, with no directional nozzle.

TrevorLarkum

- Doug_Kibbey

Have seen several similar devices being used for road/runway clearance of ice/snow. Odd that it points straight back, though, with no directional nozzle.

The sprockets are visible so it's pointing forward - I guess you just drive it along like a big snow plough.

Roy_A_Lingle

Hi Folks!

Interesting! Maybe they are testing jet engines and using the weight of the tank to hold the engine?

Sgt, Scouts out!

Doug_Kibbey

It appears to be the conventional R-R "Nene" engine configuration. Is the photo dated? Nenes had a short production run.

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

It's a twin engined version too!
Developed at SADE as a mine clearance vehicle. Just blew the mines out of the sand they were buried in.
Did a Valentine too.

Also, a hedge-jumping Universal Carrier.

Now, that wasn't a great success!

Maple_Leaf_Eh · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 517

Twenty years ago, Czech (?) crews extinguished Kuwaiti oil fires with jet engines on T55 chassis'. Put enough wind on the oil plume, and the flames will be starved for oxygen.

As for the original question, I betting on mobile test bed. Weld on some brackets, drive from the lab to an open space, and light the fires. When it is over, drive back under cover. This would work in crowded UK where you can't throw a dead cat without breaking a window or bothering someone.

recceboy

A Ram chassis for sure with CDP tracks, I could use this in the fall to blow the leaves off my lawn in the fall......:)

Anthony

JiriTintera

- Maple_Leaf_Eh

Twenty years ago, Czech (?) crews extinguished Kuwaiti oil fires with jet engines on T55 chassis'.

Dear Friends,
in Kuwait has not been used in the Czech SPOT-55, but the Hungarian fire truck of chassis T-34.

See - www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3IDkIzp2w

8Hussar · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Dec 10, 2009 Posts: 12

The picture that I am seeing is a Valentine not a Ram. Not sure what the device is.
8Hussar

Smashy · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Aug 05, 2010 Posts: 112

- 8Hussar

The picture that I am seeing is a Valentine not a Ram. Not sure what the device is.
8Hussar

He's talking about the one in the first message..

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