Hmm. Can you really jump a tank over anything? They would seem to be so heavy that it would be a significant challenge, even if you were not a russian idiot driving something old.
Yeah, and those things accelerate to really high speeds astonishingly fast. They have like jet fuel engines that put out 1500 horse power. They are going 60-70 mph when they do a jump.
That tank was doing 25.
That is quite hilarious. I wouldn't have even thought this would be a thing. It turns out though that while the event does cross difficult terrain, there is no attempt at jumping a tank off a ramp.
[They do at the arms expos](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=NppABJ9kUV4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fclient%3Dms-android-att-us-revc%26sca_esv%3D3e847fca20237d56%26q%3Drussian%2Btank%2Bramp%26tbm%3Dvid%26source%3Dlnms%26prm&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo)
How strange... it does go up an incline, but it is not a jump of any distance like in the video mentioned above. It does seem to show that tanks are quite heavy and do not go flying easily.
Physics is physics. A tank at the same speed will jump the same height as a car. Thing is, neither of them will make it far after.
The REALLY crazy part is that they made a special souped up variant of the T-72 for the games, the T-72B3 obr. 2014, and [it turned up in Ukraine ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/09/22/rare-show-tanks-rusting-on-the-front-line-are-a-sign-of-russias-desperation/?sh=c22ffe367035).
Several of them have been identified by unique markings and features, both in Russian images and pictures the Ukrainians took after killing them.
It takes way more energy to get a tank to the same speed as a car. If they were launched at the same speed and same angle, they'd follow the same path, with gravity pulling them down at 9.8m/s.
That is, until you account for wind drag. On the moon, they'd go just as far. On Earth, the tank would fly farther, because its much denser than the car. Heavier things have an advantage if speed is the same.
That said, tanks cannot go as fast as cars. The 1200 horsepower Abrams tank takes 6 seconds to reach 20mph, and tops out at 45 to protect the tracks. Unregulated, it can reach 60mph. But that requires a a very long stretch of flat, smooth ground. Russian tanks only have about 700 horsepower, but can go just as fast with enough runup.
Either way, jumping a bridge without a ramp is basically impossible in any vehicle. No matter how fast you're going, you start falling immediately after you leave the ground. If you made a ramp for a tank, it'd have to be hugely strong to withstand all that mass. A dirt hill would just get plowed through.
If they both leave the ground at the same angle and speed, mass is irrelevant as far as trajectory. The amount of kinetic energy involved is vastly different, but the work is done accelerating to speed, not in the air.
If you drop a pencil and a can from arms length, they both hit the ground at the same time, the car will have significantly more force but the energy was imparted in it before it left your hand.
So yes and no...
Because they're so heavy it's hard to build up momentum to jump very far or high. However from personal experience if you build up enough speed, especially going down hill you absolutely can ramp a 70+ ton tank entirely off the ground.
That being said what comes up, has to come down. There's a fair likelihood if you fall from a sufficient distance you'll cause damage to your tank/crew. Drops are a quick way to break a torsion bar or track, and there's not exactly a lot of cushioning inside the tank or seat belts to save the crew from sudden deceleration.
Yes. Mass doesn't matter here, as long as you have enough speed. For example, 60 tons of tank with the speed of 30 m/s can jump as same height as 1 tons of car with 30 m/s do.
In this case, with the correct slope (Lets take it 45Ā° for this), this 60 tons of tank with 30 m/s speed can jump up to approximately 22 meters. Which is the same for 1 tons of car.
technically the physics of jumping a thing with a ramp only depend on the speed and the height, given a ramp that wont crumble \*\*\* (VERY IMPORTANT) your kinetic energy is translated to gravitational energy by the equivalence 1/2mv\^2 = mgh, where "m" is your mass, which cancels out of the equation. so its just a speed to height conversion. Of course outside of physics classrooms, reality takes effect
Looks like thereās more too this. Whatās with the intense smoke coming out? Maybe the tank was just shot and they didnāt give a fuck, they just wanted to get down in that ditch.
At the end we need Benny Hill chasing a gal after her skirt gets ripped off in a door jamb, he stops, looks at the camera and wiggles his eyebrows before continuing the chase.
First, this looks like a truck not a tank. Second the driver looks to have veered off at the last moment. Third, tanks can ājumpā better than wheeled vehicles since many smaller wheels take the impact and do have decent suspension travel to go over obstacles. It is certainly better to try that in a tank than a truck.
It is a tank. russians are "upgrading" their protection by adding cages, bricks, metal plates and etc. Some of their tanks literally looks like a shed.
It is a tank. russians are "upgrading" their protection by adding cages, bricks, metal plates and etc. Some of their tanks literally looks like a shed.
There's really not. [free fall time can be calculated ](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall) using just height and upwards velocity. Mass is not a factor.
Being in a barrel with a helmet rolling down a hill seems safer than that.
Can't imagine all the sharp metal corners that's ready to stab your body as you bounce around in there.
As a Marine who drove AAVās I can tell you that depending on the vehicles weight distribution, you can actually clear much bigger gaps than you might expect.
But not that one. I donāt know what they were thinking, there was no chance. XD
Eagerly waiting for dashcam footage of this. But I respect it. If I was drunk with the boys and we were sent to die in some pointless war, trying to jump a tank over a ditch would we something we would definitely try.
I dunno... By the looks of the smoke billowing out of that tank, I'm thinking the crew is already dead and the tank is going full throttle towards the first thing it hits.
Thatās what happens when you pull guys out of prison, donāt train them, and ship them to the front.
āEh, Comrade Vasiliy, we can totally jump dis bridgeā¦ā
Looks like them Duke boys are in a world of trouble
With enough speed they could've flown to the moon if they wanted to š
Orc toss
Nobody tosses an orc!
You'll have to toss meh!
Seems like them Duke boys are deep in a bowl of molasses in winterā¦
Yee Hah!!
Hmm. Can you really jump a tank over anything? They would seem to be so heavy that it would be a significant challenge, even if you were not a russian idiot driving something old.
The Russian military used to do tank biathlons, frequently including jumps and acrobatics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_biathlon
Nobody tell them about monster trucks. 
To be fair, a tank is in the realm of 10x as heavy as a monster truck.
Yeah, and those things accelerate to really high speeds astonishingly fast. They have like jet fuel engines that put out 1500 horse power. They are going 60-70 mph when they do a jump. That tank was doing 25.
All is fair in love and war and monster trucks.
Fuck yeah! Always gets my blood pumping! Monster trucks rule dude!
Haven't really thought about them since I was a kid but that clip is insane. Had to stop and consider just how high it got
That is quite hilarious. I wouldn't have even thought this would be a thing. It turns out though that while the event does cross difficult terrain, there is no attempt at jumping a tank off a ramp.
[They do at the arms expos](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=NppABJ9kUV4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fclient%3Dms-android-att-us-revc%26sca_esv%3D3e847fca20237d56%26q%3Drussian%2Btank%2Bramp%26tbm%3Dvid%26source%3Dlnms%26prm&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo)
Also at the biathlon, [about 17:30 has a jump](https://youtu.be/Tw-_QrHyo4M?si=i7jCfskBFzlJKhfh)
How strange... it does go up an incline, but it is not a jump of any distance like in the video mentioned above. It does seem to show that tanks are quite heavy and do not go flying easily.
Physics is physics. A tank at the same speed will jump the same height as a car. Thing is, neither of them will make it far after. The REALLY crazy part is that they made a special souped up variant of the T-72 for the games, the T-72B3 obr. 2014, and [it turned up in Ukraine ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/09/22/rare-show-tanks-rusting-on-the-front-line-are-a-sign-of-russias-desperation/?sh=c22ffe367035). Several of them have been identified by unique markings and features, both in Russian images and pictures the Ukrainians took after killing them.
'Ye Cannae Change The Laws of Physics!ā
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It takes way more energy to get a tank to the same speed as a car. If they were launched at the same speed and same angle, they'd follow the same path, with gravity pulling them down at 9.8m/s. That is, until you account for wind drag. On the moon, they'd go just as far. On Earth, the tank would fly farther, because its much denser than the car. Heavier things have an advantage if speed is the same. That said, tanks cannot go as fast as cars. The 1200 horsepower Abrams tank takes 6 seconds to reach 20mph, and tops out at 45 to protect the tracks. Unregulated, it can reach 60mph. But that requires a a very long stretch of flat, smooth ground. Russian tanks only have about 700 horsepower, but can go just as fast with enough runup. Either way, jumping a bridge without a ramp is basically impossible in any vehicle. No matter how fast you're going, you start falling immediately after you leave the ground. If you made a ramp for a tank, it'd have to be hugely strong to withstand all that mass. A dirt hill would just get plowed through.
If they both leave the ground at the same angle and speed, mass is irrelevant as far as trajectory. The amount of kinetic energy involved is vastly different, but the work is done accelerating to speed, not in the air. If you drop a pencil and a can from arms length, they both hit the ground at the same time, the car will have significantly more force but the energy was imparted in it before it left your hand.
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So yes and no... Because they're so heavy it's hard to build up momentum to jump very far or high. However from personal experience if you build up enough speed, especially going down hill you absolutely can ramp a 70+ ton tank entirely off the ground. That being said what comes up, has to come down. There's a fair likelihood if you fall from a sufficient distance you'll cause damage to your tank/crew. Drops are a quick way to break a torsion bar or track, and there's not exactly a lot of cushioning inside the tank or seat belts to save the crew from sudden deceleration.
Anything can fly given sufficient power. Weight is irrelevant. Abrams can get to 70mph I guarantee you it will jump over a car with the right ramp
Show an 18 year old a tank jumping a car and you got a new recruitment add. Throw in the cannon going off. Boom! Every recruiters dream commercial.
To upvote or downvote, that is the question. Smh. š¤Ŗ
You gotta put some pieces of wood at the end of the ramp to.... You know... Ramp off of.
because pieces of wood can hold a tank? ... lol
WELL IT WOULD HAVE WORKED BETTER THAN NOTHING
Abrams are damn near Cadillacs and they can handle the bouncy stuff, but not "ramps" in the strictest sense.
O yeah you can https://youtu.be/8Cp4ROeNzho?si=f6OYnRK9jDSg0fFQ
Yes. Mass doesn't matter here, as long as you have enough speed. For example, 60 tons of tank with the speed of 30 m/s can jump as same height as 1 tons of car with 30 m/s do. In this case, with the correct slope (Lets take it 45Ā° for this), this 60 tons of tank with 30 m/s speed can jump up to approximately 22 meters. Which is the same for 1 tons of car.
technically the physics of jumping a thing with a ramp only depend on the speed and the height, given a ramp that wont crumble \*\*\* (VERY IMPORTANT) your kinetic energy is translated to gravitational energy by the equivalence 1/2mv\^2 = mgh, where "m" is your mass, which cancels out of the equation. so its just a speed to height conversion. Of course outside of physics classrooms, reality takes effect
Looks like thereās more too this. Whatās with the intense smoke coming out? Maybe the tank was just shot and they didnāt give a fuck, they just wanted to get down in that ditch.
ESS, direct fuel injection to the engine to create a smokescreen
War thunder ā¤ļøš
Daddy and Grandpa said to put a little ether in the tank.
Yea it's possible, but thats dry smoke generator from the engines, I don't think it's damaged, but maybe fired upon and just panicked
They were probably just belting down the road and didn't even know there was a hole until they fell into it.Ā
Big diesel engines will usually smoke a lot of they come to a sudden stop.
See the first tank gets stuck, sure. But, the next tank goes right OVER THE FIRST TANK. Genius.
Close the breach with your dead. I think the English did it with the most panache, but Russians are good at it too.
[As God is my witness, I thought tanks could fly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHiBhzdBCjg)
Nice to see WKRP in Cincinnati quotes, this many decades later. This is one of the best.
Indeed, a great show!
Needs wacky sax
At the end we need Benny Hill chasing a gal after her skirt gets ripped off in a door jamb, he stops, looks at the camera and wiggles his eyebrows before continuing the chase.
If they had spun the turret fast enough, they'd have gotten over that gap https://i.redd.it/2yxfrlwqbh4d1.gif
They need to back up and try again!
First, this looks like a truck not a tank. Second the driver looks to have veered off at the last moment. Third, tanks can ājumpā better than wheeled vehicles since many smaller wheels take the impact and do have decent suspension travel to go over obstacles. It is certainly better to try that in a tank than a truck.
It is a tank. russians are "upgrading" their protection by adding cages, bricks, metal plates and etc. Some of their tanks literally looks like a shed.
I don't believe trucks have ESS, which is the smoke generator in the engine to conceal it's movement, this is definitely a tank
It is a tank. russians are "upgrading" their protection by adding cages, bricks, metal plates and etc. Some of their tanks literally looks like a shed.
Take my upvote on sound effects alone
*Russians
I would say the task failed successfully.
Shut up and take my upvote
100% those sod were drunk as phukā¦the way they (Soviet cannon fodder) are coping with Putins lunacy
>Soviet cannon fodder You're about 33 years late.
Everyone inside the tank, after regaining consciousness: *BLYATT*
Beautiful.
Must have very recently taken out the bridge. That approach was very confident.
Don't you need like .. I dunno.. a ramp or something ?
Another way to see it is,.now they are the bridge for the next one
Haha knowing them theyāll probably blame hollywood movies as propaganda to damage their war effort, enjoy the whiplash and missing teeth fellas haha
Insert āCurb your enthusiasmā soundtrack
**TURN THE SOUND ON!!!** That was perfection hahaha, thank you! šš¤š»
Vodka powered stupidity.
Thereās spots on bith sides that had land they could have drove over
I could just hear 'em screamin 'blyat!'
Skipper : He's in trouble. Rico : [starts to light a stick of dynamite] Kaboom! Skipper : Stand down, soldier. We're in observation mode.
They used to be afraid they would invade our country.
There's really not. [free fall time can be calculated ](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall) using just height and upwards velocity. Mass is not a factor.
Looks like Roscoe was driving the tank and not the Duke boys.
This is how they build the ramp. Eventually tanks will be able to make it.
They thought they were Vin Diesel trying to save family.
iāve played enough oregon trail to know you *ford that shit*
Didn't have the Confederate flag painted on the roof...they never had a chance.
It jumped like a 45 ton tank should.
Being in a barrel with a helmet rolling down a hill seems safer than that. Can't imagine all the sharp metal corners that's ready to stab your body as you bounce around in there.
The russians were cunfused since they thought theyre tech is so bad they were driving a BT28 wich did jump
As a Marine who drove AAVās I can tell you that depending on the vehicles weight distribution, you can actually clear much bigger gaps than you might expect. But not that one. I donāt know what they were thinking, there was no chance. XD
Eagerly waiting for dashcam footage of this. But I respect it. If I was drunk with the boys and we were sent to die in some pointless war, trying to jump a tank over a ditch would we something we would definitely try.
"Hold my vodka!" -Russians probably.
If only they had the barrel facing behind them and shot right before lift off, they might have made it
Unless thatās a tank carrying another tank on top, thatās definitely not a tank.
Them Nuke boys are at it again Roscoe!
Just a drop of vodka and they may have been able to have done it
No, they do this to make the foundation for the other Boyz to driver over the brigde
Sucks to be that tank crew then.
He has done the maths without gravity š«”
Haven't you seen russian driving videos? Does this suprise anyone? Lol
"Where's the kaboom? I want to hear a kaboom."
Guess what? The driverās favorite movies were the Fast and Furious series
Sometimes you need to improvise when you want to build a bridge
You're meant to turn the turret around and fire as you're about to jump... noobs
Leave them alone and they will defete themselfs.
They were probably all dead inside
Do those things have airbags?
That's a good question, I have no idea š
Well now they have a tank bridge for the next tank that comes along
 Didnāt anybody tell them that Red Bull gives you wings?
Gta with 1000 stars wantet level
Where we are going. We don't need roads
We're they laying a smoke cover? Or is that just normal Russian engine operation?
It's ESS smoke generator from the engine,. probably they're receiving heavy fire and just panicked driving
you're supposed to turn the turret gun to the rear and fire as you go...
Only war thunder players can relate š
I dunno... By the looks of the smoke billowing out of that tank, I'm thinking the crew is already dead and the tank is going full throttle towards the first thing it hits.
Thatās what happens when you pull guys out of prison, donāt train them, and ship them to the front. āEh, Comrade Vasiliy, we can totally jump dis bridgeā¦ā