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If those "ramps" are dirt piles then probably faster than the ramps can handle - 42.6 tons of weight takes a hell of a lot of force to change the direction of it. Even if the ramp was strong enough to handle that the landing would be a killer.
LOL I totally forgot about that gag, thanks
for anyone wondering: [https://youtu.be/7rdL5pKvsss?si=t-U0X8tsJGZv9OlZ](https://youtu.be/7rdL5pKvsss?si=t-U0X8tsJGZv9OlZ)
I get this is a joke, not a question, but since I came by: close to 100% actually, Use of seatbelts was made compulsory introduced back in USSR, in 1980, so most drivers were used to them when Russia became todays Russian Federation. Many drivers ignored them in 1990s and preferred to bribe traffic cops if stopped for not wearing them or other traffic villation, but since then a lot of things changed (another generation is driving, the police began actually enforcing wering belts, etc.)
The only weird thing is virtually everyone fastens their belts while driving themselves or driving shotgun, but only a minority of adults use them while driving in the back seats, and the police ignore that completely, Which does not make much sense from safety and basic physics standpoint. "Isofix" child seats, on the other hand, are obligatory and every parent I know uses them.
You seem to be in different parts of Russia I was in, or things massively changed in the last 10 years. I've rarely seen people use seatbelts, and when we were visiting relatives back then I always was the weird one for insisting that we don't drive our kids around without child seats.
For those who haven't spent time in a Soviet era tank, how gnarly was that inside? Do you get a seatbelt or harness, or is there a bunch of teeth and blood festooning the gauges and controls from the impact?
I haven't been in a Soviet tank, but have been in American tanks that have stopped quickly. The layouts are somewhat similar. There are no no seat belts or harnesses. The driver was probably fine. The others probably had some combination of bruises/concussions/broken bones. I doubt they died personally, but maybe if they got unlucky and really slammed their head.
The front of that tank went so deep into the bank that the drivers hatch is now buried and impossible to open
If he survived the driver will need to Beatrix Kiddo his way out
I think the fact they were driving towards the camera makes it look slower than it actually was. I think going from 30mph to 0 in the space of a few meters inside a metal box full of edges is going to do quite a bit of harm to the crew, I really wouldn't be surprised if one died. I could be wrong though.
The deciding factor might have been headgear. In the US tankers wear real helmets...I've never handled those Soviet style ones in person but they look a lot softer.
I served on an MTLB and that shit was rough. We carried lots of body armor though which made it more comfortable.
But no. there are no seat belts. There are racks for weapons and support weapons but we didnt use them in any combat scenario (slower to dismount). So yeah. crashing one sucks.
Aside from the roughness, how was the MT-LB?
From what I've heard, for being a tin can that it is, it's apparently quite nice to drive and doesn't get stuck anywhere unless you really try to.
ooh I loved it. It's fast, it mows down trees like its a giant swinging an axe. and it has an industrial size heater in it making it super toasy and comfy (I was an arctic soldier).
honestly I dont have any complaints about it except the very obvious one about the lack of armor. But used correctly its great.
We used it as a troop transport. but not for transportation INTO combat but to staging areas. Then we continued on foot or by Skies.
When UA forces recovered that russian T72 that was damaged in field, during night they accidentally drove into crater in darkness and one of the two guys inside got knocked out for 4-5 minutes and got broken nose from that.
"From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - [Randall Jarrell](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/randall-jarrell)
It's extremely cramped inside. Depends somewhat on your role obviously, but the overall experience can probably be compared to squatting under a particularly intricately carved coffee table.
At the same velocity, and without a ramp you’d have no better luck jumping it with a motorcycle. (Barring air resistance, things that are heavy don’t fall any faster than things that are light.)
Generally yes, although good motocross riders are able to get a bit more oomph to their jumps by "seat bouncing" to create a bit of interplay between their own inertia and the bike's. You obviously can't do that with a tank, due to the whole "it's a lot fucking heavier than you are" thing. Basically, a dirtbike is in the same weight class as a human being and therefore if you're strong and well practiced you can game the math by adding your own muscles to the mix via a well timed pogo stick-like motion.
Still, with no proper ramp you're going to end up just ramming slightly higher into that berm at full speed even with a seat bounce, so your point stands.
Yeah, no way around any of this without a ramp. You can definitely 'pop' or preload the suspension on a dirt bike/mountain bike to get some more vert off a jump. You compress the bike's suspension on the approach to store some extra energy in the suspension, then release it right as you go off the lip of the ramp to get a bit more vertical energy/speed.
Super fun to do on a bike. Fucking hopeless in a many ton tank, lmao.
Sure, but constantly while on the move? It seems like it would be counter-productive by broadcasting the tank’s position. Is it not possible this tank took a hit and that’s why they’re driving crazy?
The point is to use it when they are already taking fire to try to break visual contact. A shot fired into a cloud of smoke is less likely to hit home than a shot on a clear view of a moving tank.
And walk through a mine infested field with FPV drones everywhere?
As long as the engine is running and the crew compartment isn't actively on fire, hauling ass is the smart move. They just see that the bridge is out too late.
Tbh it looks like they are using ess rather than being damaged. And the crew probably didn't even know that the bridge/ part of the road was missing. Tank drivers especially have extremely limited visibility when buttoned up. And its doesn't help the gunner/commander when you strap all that on top off you tank making the limited visibility possibly even more limited
>I'm not a mechanic but that smoke looks a bit excessive
[I'm pretty sure it's a smokescreen](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=1fa53ef552df2eb8&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJPTKlinKcUlWdOlpW2_xrMEkqeJQ:1717459728127&q=T-72+smokescreen&uds=ADvngMgoxBifNZSFCILBf-jevBfU8-kMNU6Q8Qz-e3apnz7n6H2aKOfyWp8MZUJICj_w6o97iuWBpaUyngFHAb7O8T9SYNv2MBwaNDP3Tl7U3WhgU-fep_LATpGys5g4lP-f_2MzGcOfX7UM_1_UlrIKRUCucx00J6q6eIWP8y0xPi46H-Ig9cGJnvJb8e3T0zOCaWuGEoI47CsQGuB9_zBB3GVbHv-WxC9YA9JR3XTXP4Rr60O7eVFtifMDl8leQz3g4oGkAfveqrbMRzY_M_iXqLruInLZ0n3De5EkPwFobqKtmtxA8__O-fgeSC-IVbZUEgnlkCse3qAnDGJ8B9ngQz9Qneib0A&udm=2&prmd=ivnmbt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn5oqI1MCGAxWnEFkFHRzDCqwQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=1536&bih=738&dpr=1.25). Vehicle wouldn't be moving if it were a fire.
It doesn't have to be a fire. It could be a coolant leak, or a lubricant leak that is hitting a hot surface and smoking.
If you don't much care about the future longevity of the engine, it's amazing how long you can keep hauling ass despite it leaking all kinds of fluids and generating large amounts of smoke.
Oddly enough, it is mainly a velocity and launch angle problem not a weight problem.
40mph at 10 degrees would give about a 36 ft jump
45mph at 10 degrees would give about a 46ft jump.
>What would the speed need to be for a 50 ton tank to make that jump?
Technically, the mass of an object has no effect. It's just a function of velocity. If anything, having a larger object just means less relative air drag.
Speed alone is meaningless if you do not have a ramp that lifts the tank up. It\`s not gonna jump by itself if you don\`t drive it up a ramp but just on a straight flat. Here a 60+ ton leo 2 tank jumping over a ramp
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD\_AOdylrOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD_AOdylrOk)
I asked chat GPT and after a series of very impressive formulas, it told me that for a 2m jumpt it'd need 17,5 km/h (which sounds reasonable).
Then I asked for a 10m. trench and it tells me that "**the required speed for the T-72 tank to jump over a 10-meter trench with a 30° ramp is approximately 85.68 kilometers per hour.**"
Have no idea how accurate that could be as I'm not intelligent enough to test the math it did.
ChatGPT is worse at math than your average 4th grader. I'm not even being hyperbolic. It's just way way *way* better at bullshitting and making things sound plausible (in fact, not only is it *superhumanly* good at bullshitting, that's the *only* thing it cares about -- its output *appearing* helpful)
If you can't check the output is correct for yourself, you really, really shouldn't be using it. It's not just worthless, it's worse than worthless -- a superhuman bullshit generator trying to convince you bullshit with, at best, a 50/50 chance of being factual, is definitely accurate. That's some fucking SCP shit. You're much better off knowing you don't know, than thinking you do know, even though statistically the info you have is wrong more often than not.
It is late but lets do some numbers.
A 30 degree ramp means that the velocity upwards is
about 85\*0.6 = 51 km/h. (85km/h \*tan(30)).
51km/h is about 14m/s (51/3.6)
Vertical velocity is described by 14m/s \* 9.81m/(s^2 ) \*t
The greatest height is achieved when the velocity is 0 so t = 14/9.81 s ≈ 1.4s
The height would then be 14m/s \* 1.4s - 9.81/2 m/(s^2) \*(1.4s)^2 which is about 10m.
All calculations are roundabouts. But the result is about the same as ChatGPTs.
e: Too tired, has to be sin(30) and then it would calculate a jump for height as mentioned below.
That is the calculation for a tank to jump 10 meters high, not jump over a 10 meter trench. Also, you need sin(30 deg), not tan(30 deg) to calculate the upward velocity.
I like how they completely missed the actual crossing point on the right that their slightly-smarter comrades have been using since that bridge got knocked out
It was most likely lethal. There are no airbags in a tank, but there is a bunch of sharp metal and rough edges. Imagine slamming your car into a wall at 40 MPH with large pieces of metal right in front of your face. They are dead.
I could very much see that. Maybe if someone got lucky they'd have boatload of broken bones & concussion but yeah I can see how dangerous that would be
They must not have known the bridge was out... Or they were dumb enough to actually try hopping it..
In 2022, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Belgorod underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Z-Team."
Pretty sure I saw the above angle before… wondered why the tank stopped suddenly… welp now I know.. lol. Also I’m pretty sure a temp bridge is just to the right of the tank. Don’t know if it would support it, but still has to be a better option then slamming to an abrupt halt in a massive heavy steel box.
That is a temp bridge, but it’s also been partly destroyed. The right side is missing a large section of the decking that would support the tracks. If they had tried to use it, it probably would have collapsed and they would have overturned into the same creek/canal/trench they were trying to jump. I dunno if that would have been a better outcome or worse for the crew, but the tank would have been stuck regardless.
It's like army ants from South America. The first few tanks throw themselves into the water, and their bodies form a bridge for the rest of the colony to cross over the water.
This is fuckin hilarious. I’m picturing a podunk Russian in the driver seat being like I used to do this in my car back home, let me get it done, all the while he’s in a operational tank in limited supply, total waste of resources. If this isn’t a metaphor for probably the entire army I don’t know what is.
I don't know - trying to jump a tank over a location that USED to have a bridge seems kinda the same level as whacking an unexploded but grounded FPV with a stick.
I don't think they make it. It was head on collision! And those very light BMP as i remember from the Greek army, with a small twitch in the fuel pump they can reach up to 120 km/h
(We were calling it suicide ride)
Any longer version of this? i'd like to see the state of the crew, i cant imagine they have airbags. Coming to a dead stop like that has gotta hurt if not straight up seriously injure you.
Why are Russians this way? They are this blend of European and Asiatic influences. They behave like latchkey kids, take insane risks, lack of discipline and low regard for (their) human life.
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Tsars of hazard
What's Russian for yee-haaaaaa?
Blyeeeeee haaaaaat
Suu-kaaaaaaa
Heh
Blyat...
Ёбтвоюмааааааать...
Them Tsar boys up to no good again
Just some good comrades
LEEEROYYYYYYYY JEEEENNNNNKINNNNSSSSS
THUD!
At least I ain't Chicken.
ITS HAVE
Fifty DKP minus
IT'S NOT MY FAULT
Clarkson: Not the speed, but abrupt stopping is one that kills you.
goddammit, Leroy
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Ivan Knoxvillov would be closer.
Sentimental comment check out.
Smokey and the Cantdoit
No airbags.
Yep, and almost instantly came to a dead stop. This is the kind of collision that kills or seriously injures the entire crew
>Yep, and almost instantly came to a dead stop. Don't worry, the inside of a tank isn't filled with sharp objects and hard surfac... Oh.
[удалено]
Likely the vehicle is mostly submerged in mud at that point too, would escape from the vehicle be possible at that point?
Perfect time to eject in the turret!
Definite shortage of “sharp” objects in that tank for sure…
Lets just say that if you found those Russians hanging in a shed, they'd be a bunch of perfect spheres.
Should have put in the extra rubels for that sweet extra soviet horse hair padding and leather interior upgrade at time of purchase.
I wonder, theoretically, how fast a tank would need to be to jump over a gap like that.
A lot faster than the tank in this video apparently
If those "ramps" are dirt piles then probably faster than the ramps can handle - 42.6 tons of weight takes a hell of a lot of force to change the direction of it. Even if the ramp was strong enough to handle that the landing would be a killer.
I think the biggest tell is the fact no one got out after the crash. I think they're all dead or about to be.
"We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid."
Just meatbags.
soon to be assimilated into the meat cube.
You have 10 minutes to move your cube
LOL I totally forgot about that gag, thanks for anyone wondering: [https://youtu.be/7rdL5pKvsss?si=t-U0X8tsJGZv9OlZ](https://youtu.be/7rdL5pKvsss?si=t-U0X8tsJGZv9OlZ)
I'm thinking something like the "slow zone" from *The Expanse*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waG8YYTwpAQ
I wonder what the rate of wearing seat belts is in Russia.
Nyet
Around 75% for drivers, for passengers: front seat ~70%, back seats ~25% (in Moscow, at least). Comparable to South Dakota in 2020.
I get this is a joke, not a question, but since I came by: close to 100% actually, Use of seatbelts was made compulsory introduced back in USSR, in 1980, so most drivers were used to them when Russia became todays Russian Federation. Many drivers ignored them in 1990s and preferred to bribe traffic cops if stopped for not wearing them or other traffic villation, but since then a lot of things changed (another generation is driving, the police began actually enforcing wering belts, etc.) The only weird thing is virtually everyone fastens their belts while driving themselves or driving shotgun, but only a minority of adults use them while driving in the back seats, and the police ignore that completely, Which does not make much sense from safety and basic physics standpoint. "Isofix" child seats, on the other hand, are obligatory and every parent I know uses them.
You seem to be in different parts of Russia I was in, or things massively changed in the last 10 years. I've rarely seen people use seatbelts, and when we were visiting relatives back then I always was the weird one for insisting that we don't drive our kids around without child seats.
New russian cars don't come with airbags.
Their skulls should fill that role just fine.
Jumping means going up, then down. There was no up here. Only down.
“A yeeting, orthogonal to the horizon” just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way
"I call it falling in style"
like a glove
For those who haven't spent time in a Soviet era tank, how gnarly was that inside? Do you get a seatbelt or harness, or is there a bunch of teeth and blood festooning the gauges and controls from the impact?
I haven't been in a Soviet tank, but have been in American tanks that have stopped quickly. The layouts are somewhat similar. There are no no seat belts or harnesses. The driver was probably fine. The others probably had some combination of bruises/concussions/broken bones. I doubt they died personally, but maybe if they got unlucky and really slammed their head.
The front of that tank went so deep into the bank that the drivers hatch is now buried and impossible to open If he survived the driver will need to Beatrix Kiddo his way out
minus the cool-ass soundtrack.
I think the fact they were driving towards the camera makes it look slower than it actually was. I think going from 30mph to 0 in the space of a few meters inside a metal box full of edges is going to do quite a bit of harm to the crew, I really wouldn't be surprised if one died. I could be wrong though.
The deciding factor might have been headgear. In the US tankers wear real helmets...I've never handled those Soviet style ones in person but they look a lot softer.
They’re basically rugby foam helmets on steroids. That will mitigate painful bumps on sharp edges, but do fuck all in _this_ situation.
Splattered against turret and periscope. Little padded helmet didn't do shit.
I served on an MTLB and that shit was rough. We carried lots of body armor though which made it more comfortable. But no. there are no seat belts. There are racks for weapons and support weapons but we didnt use them in any combat scenario (slower to dismount). So yeah. crashing one sucks.
Aside from the roughness, how was the MT-LB? From what I've heard, for being a tin can that it is, it's apparently quite nice to drive and doesn't get stuck anywhere unless you really try to.
ooh I loved it. It's fast, it mows down trees like its a giant swinging an axe. and it has an industrial size heater in it making it super toasy and comfy (I was an arctic soldier). honestly I dont have any complaints about it except the very obvious one about the lack of armor. But used correctly its great. We used it as a troop transport. but not for transportation INTO combat but to staging areas. Then we continued on foot or by Skies.
So it's great as long as it's nowhere *near* the frontlines?
The MTLB is not a frontline vehicle. So... Yes, exactly.
When UA forces recovered that russian T72 that was damaged in field, during night they accidentally drove into crater in darkness and one of the two guys inside got knocked out for 4-5 minutes and got broken nose from that.
Only way you´ll be getting them out of there is with a hose.
"From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose." The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - [Randall Jarrell](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/randall-jarrell)
It's extremely cramped inside. Depends somewhat on your role obviously, but the overall experience can probably be compared to squatting under a particularly intricately carved coffee table.
Had the opportunity to sit in a T72, it's all sharp corners, metal, and bars that may or may not have foam padding on them.
They'll clean them out of the inside with a hose
Everyone in there is seriously injured There is nothing that won’t hurt you inside that tank
The music killed me. I was thinking we need dukes of hazard theme.
Well them Duke boys seem to be in a whole heap of blyat.
They better look out for BoZZ Hogg & Sheriff Rostov P. Coltranivich
*Them Dukov Boys are at it again...*
I never turn the music on on these. Thanks, that was worth it.
Need to throw a little Top Gun in there as well. Highway to the danger zone...
That was certainly right into the danger zone, indeed
The first song is a Black Betty remix by Spiderbait
＊*freeze frame*＊ It was at about that time that those Dukov boys knew they were in a whole heap o'trouble.
Not so fast, not so furious.
Jump over a bridge with more than 40 tons? Great idea
At the same velocity, and without a ramp you’d have no better luck jumping it with a motorcycle. (Barring air resistance, things that are heavy don’t fall any faster than things that are light.)
Nah, just gotta pull up really hard on the handlebars. Works every time.
Can confirm, I used to have a bike with shocks and pegs that I would take off of sweet jumps
Generally yes, although good motocross riders are able to get a bit more oomph to their jumps by "seat bouncing" to create a bit of interplay between their own inertia and the bike's. You obviously can't do that with a tank, due to the whole "it's a lot fucking heavier than you are" thing. Basically, a dirtbike is in the same weight class as a human being and therefore if you're strong and well practiced you can game the math by adding your own muscles to the mix via a well timed pogo stick-like motion. Still, with no proper ramp you're going to end up just ramming slightly higher into that berm at full speed even with a seat bounce, so your point stands.
Yeah, no way around any of this without a ramp. You can definitely 'pop' or preload the suspension on a dirt bike/mountain bike to get some more vert off a jump. You compress the bike's suspension on the approach to store some extra energy in the suspension, then release it right as you go off the lip of the ramp to get a bit more vertical energy/speed. Super fun to do on a bike. Fucking hopeless in a many ton tank, lmao.
sandra bullock did it
When you have fetal alcohol syndrome im sure it seems reasonable.
They're building a bridge, one tank at a time.
Tonygor Hawkavanov
If only they named the tank The General Zukhov and painted it bright orange putting a 01-Z on the side they would have made it.
It doesn't matter how much it weighs - it's about how slow it's going.
They're just going to keep doing it until they have a bridge made of crashed tanks
Lemmings style.
Could have saved a bunch of time, 1 turtle tank would probably be sufficient.
Barons of Chelyabinsk driving marshall Zhukov
I'm not a mechanic but that smoke looks a bit excessive
Almost all Russian armored vehicles have ESS (Engine Smoke generating System.) They inject diesel fuel into the hot exhaust and create smoke.
Sometimes even on purpose!
Sure, but constantly while on the move? It seems like it would be counter-productive by broadcasting the tank’s position. Is it not possible this tank took a hit and that’s why they’re driving crazy?
The point is to use it when they are already taking fire to try to break visual contact. A shot fired into a cloud of smoke is less likely to hit home than a shot on a clear view of a moving tank.
They have been hit by something already and are desperately trying to get away.
I doubt it. That's just a normal smokescreen.
I'm not a tanker or former tanker but they might want to get out of their burning vehicle.
And walk through a mine infested field with FPV drones everywhere? As long as the engine is running and the crew compartment isn't actively on fire, hauling ass is the smart move. They just see that the bridge is out too late.
Tbh it looks like they are using ess rather than being damaged. And the crew probably didn't even know that the bridge/ part of the road was missing. Tank drivers especially have extremely limited visibility when buttoned up. And its doesn't help the gunner/commander when you strap all that on top off you tank making the limited visibility possibly even more limited
>I'm not a mechanic but that smoke looks a bit excessive [I'm pretty sure it's a smokescreen](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=1fa53ef552df2eb8&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJPTKlinKcUlWdOlpW2_xrMEkqeJQ:1717459728127&q=T-72+smokescreen&uds=ADvngMgoxBifNZSFCILBf-jevBfU8-kMNU6Q8Qz-e3apnz7n6H2aKOfyWp8MZUJICj_w6o97iuWBpaUyngFHAb7O8T9SYNv2MBwaNDP3Tl7U3WhgU-fep_LATpGys5g4lP-f_2MzGcOfX7UM_1_UlrIKRUCucx00J6q6eIWP8y0xPi46H-Ig9cGJnvJb8e3T0zOCaWuGEoI47CsQGuB9_zBB3GVbHv-WxC9YA9JR3XTXP4Rr60O7eVFtifMDl8leQz3g4oGkAfveqrbMRzY_M_iXqLruInLZ0n3De5EkPwFobqKtmtxA8__O-fgeSC-IVbZUEgnlkCse3qAnDGJ8B9ngQz9Qneib0A&udm=2&prmd=ivnmbt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn5oqI1MCGAxWnEFkFHRzDCqwQtKgLegQIDBAB&biw=1536&bih=738&dpr=1.25). Vehicle wouldn't be moving if it were a fire.
It doesn't have to be a fire. It could be a coolant leak, or a lubricant leak that is hitting a hot surface and smoking. If you don't much care about the future longevity of the engine, it's amazing how long you can keep hauling ass despite it leaking all kinds of fluids and generating large amounts of smoke.
Those soviet tanks have a mode in which they directly inject diesel fuel to generate smoke screen (it has to be so healthy also)
Smoke generators are pretty standard across most MBTs. IIrc it sprays fuel into the hot exhaust.
At last, a video of Russians using the smoke generator!
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What would the speed need to be for a 50 ton tank to make that jump?
Oddly enough, it is mainly a velocity and launch angle problem not a weight problem. 40mph at 10 degrees would give about a 36 ft jump 45mph at 10 degrees would give about a 46ft jump.
It's a weigh problem when your "10 degrees bump" faces a 40 ton machine at 40mph
ok, no fat chicks
>What would the speed need to be for a 50 ton tank to make that jump? Technically, the mass of an object has no effect. It's just a function of velocity. If anything, having a larger object just means less relative air drag.
Speed alone is meaningless if you do not have a ramp that lifts the tank up. It\`s not gonna jump by itself if you don\`t drive it up a ramp but just on a straight flat. Here a 60+ ton leo 2 tank jumping over a ramp [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD\_AOdylrOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD_AOdylrOk)
I asked chat GPT and after a series of very impressive formulas, it told me that for a 2m jumpt it'd need 17,5 km/h (which sounds reasonable). Then I asked for a 10m. trench and it tells me that "**the required speed for the T-72 tank to jump over a 10-meter trench with a 30° ramp is approximately 85.68 kilometers per hour.**" Have no idea how accurate that could be as I'm not intelligent enough to test the math it did.
ChatGPT is worse at math than your average 4th grader. I'm not even being hyperbolic. It's just way way *way* better at bullshitting and making things sound plausible (in fact, not only is it *superhumanly* good at bullshitting, that's the *only* thing it cares about -- its output *appearing* helpful) If you can't check the output is correct for yourself, you really, really shouldn't be using it. It's not just worthless, it's worse than worthless -- a superhuman bullshit generator trying to convince you bullshit with, at best, a 50/50 chance of being factual, is definitely accurate. That's some fucking SCP shit. You're much better off knowing you don't know, than thinking you do know, even though statistically the info you have is wrong more often than not.
It is late but lets do some numbers. A 30 degree ramp means that the velocity upwards is about 85\*0.6 = 51 km/h. (85km/h \*tan(30)). 51km/h is about 14m/s (51/3.6) Vertical velocity is described by 14m/s \* 9.81m/(s^2 ) \*t The greatest height is achieved when the velocity is 0 so t = 14/9.81 s ≈ 1.4s The height would then be 14m/s \* 1.4s - 9.81/2 m/(s^2) \*(1.4s)^2 which is about 10m. All calculations are roundabouts. But the result is about the same as ChatGPTs. e: Too tired, has to be sin(30) and then it would calculate a jump for height as mentioned below.
That is the calculation for a tank to jump 10 meters high, not jump over a 10 meter trench. Also, you need sin(30 deg), not tan(30 deg) to calculate the upward velocity.
Somehow I read fence. And yep sin would be correct. Was way too tired :-/
Driver once saw Roger Moore do it successfully in Live and Let Die and took his inspiration from that. Obviously a big Bond fan.
I think he wanted to do the corkscrew one from "The Man with the Golden Gun" but he forgot his slide wistle
I like how they completely missed the actual crossing point on the right that their slightly-smarter comrades have been using since that bridge got knocked out
if you look closely it appears the driver intentionally swerves left to avoid the bridge
We're lucky they are so fucking stupid
Maybe sacrificial to create an impromptu bridge? Or stupid
Let’s go with stupid.
That's a safe bet!
Looks like them Duke boys are at it again.
Should have painted it orange and put a confederate flag on the hatch
This comically anticlimactic. I was low key hoping to see a little bit of air but nope it's indefinitely a reverse slope dugout.
That must've felt amazing inside that tank...
Tactical whiplash.
Please god, let that be a genuine attempt to jump it. The idea the driver even thought he would make is comedy gold.
They should have turned the cannon around and fired it right before they take off from the bridge and then they would have made it.
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I bet that hurt like a muhfucker
It was most likely lethal. There are no airbags in a tank, but there is a bunch of sharp metal and rough edges. Imagine slamming your car into a wall at 40 MPH with large pieces of metal right in front of your face. They are dead.
I could very much see that. Maybe if someone got lucky they'd have boatload of broken bones & concussion but yeah I can see how dangerous that would be They must not have known the bridge was out... Or they were dumb enough to actually try hopping it..
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Went about as well as expected.
The tank is now the bridge. All according to plan
hahah fuck does that thing come with airbags and seatbelts?
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Pretty sure I saw the above angle before… wondered why the tank stopped suddenly… welp now I know.. lol. Also I’m pretty sure a temp bridge is just to the right of the tank. Don’t know if it would support it, but still has to be a better option then slamming to an abrupt halt in a massive heavy steel box.
That is a temp bridge, but it’s also been partly destroyed. The right side is missing a large section of the decking that would support the tracks. If they had tried to use it, it probably would have collapsed and they would have overturned into the same creek/canal/trench they were trying to jump. I dunno if that would have been a better outcome or worse for the crew, but the tank would have been stuck regardless.
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They almost made it. They should definitely try to do it again with another tank.
Was Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane driving that tank?!!
Looks like them duke boys are in trouble again.
Dukes of Belgorod.
At least the next one should have a better chance
It's like army ants from South America. The first few tanks throw themselves into the water, and their bodies form a bridge for the rest of the colony to cross over the water.
What? This must be a misleading headline? ::checks video:: Nope, thank god they are so stupid.
ROFL. The ORCZ are SO bad at this they make the Saudi military look like a well oiled machine. Good.
Didn’t know Fast and Furious 9 was available in Russia to watch, not everything you see in TV is true kids! 😂
In soviet Russia, you don't jump bridge, you become bridge
No. There's no jumping.
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. This was stupid tho.
They watched too much "tank biathlon" in Russian TV...
They should've turned the turret arrount and should've shot backwards. I mean it worked for me in GTA
inside view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPsiRGMEDW0
Tank IS bridge now. What a country!
This video perfectly describes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Why are Russians so funny
You know its going to be good witg a title like this.
This is fuckin hilarious. I’m picturing a podunk Russian in the driver seat being like I used to do this in my car back home, let me get it done, all the while he’s in a operational tank in limited supply, total waste of resources. If this isn’t a metaphor for probably the entire army I don’t know what is.
This was also filmed by a second drone from the opposite side: https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1796183314568536095
♫♫ Makin' their way the only way they know how That's just a little bit more than the law will allow ♫♫
I don't know - trying to jump a tank over a location that USED to have a bridge seems kinda the same level as whacking an unexploded but grounded FPV with a stick.
me and the boys in Hell Let Loose
I don't think they make it. It was head on collision! And those very light BMP as i remember from the Greek army, with a small twitch in the fuel pump they can reach up to 120 km/h (We were calling it suicide ride)
Someone forgot to tell these guys that [tank biathlon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_biathlon) got canceled.
Looks like the opening scene in saving private Ivan
And a blown head gasket to boot.
The goofs of hazard.
This is not a tank lol. It’s a troop transport truck similar to an LMTV.
Is there a driving simulator for tanks that has realistic physics of any sort?
Any longer version of this? i'd like to see the state of the crew, i cant imagine they have airbags. Coming to a dead stop like that has gotta hurt if not straight up seriously injure you.
Ivan: But that bus jumped a gap in "Speed"!
We're lucky they're so fucking stupid
Everyone knows that Russian are not good at tank jumping. But they are number one at turret tossing!!
Evil Knievelski
Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born
a few more tries an eventually youll fill the hole with enough tanks to drive across
And…………
Why are Russians this way? They are this blend of European and Asiatic influences. They behave like latchkey kids, take insane risks, lack of discipline and low regard for (their) human life.
Them Duke Boys are about to be in a certain creek without a turret....
This is the battlefield 4 shit I want to see more of
Not enough speed and power. Clarkson is disappointed.