how dutch military tests tank brakes

[Rubycon]

I still prefer the video you posted, ages ago (if I remember, correctly), which showed a normal looking street scene (in the USA). Then a (very) high voltage wire falls, and dances about like crazy, showering huge sparks everywhere, and glowing red/yellow/white/nuclear/sun/super-heated hot, in quite an amazing (and unexpected, to the untrained) way!

Like the stuff in this compilation video

How about this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPq2dHhv0w

:biggrin:

 

[Ventanni]

So basically the Netherlands proved the German Leopard tanks have good brakes. Not sure what the point of that was. 😕

Not just that German Leopards have good brakes, but tanks in general stop pretty fast actually. They are superbly heavy, yes, but they also have a lot of ground traction and are sitting on top of 14 wheels to apply braking action to. To me, at least, it's no surprise that for their weight/speed, tanks stop pretty darn well.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

How about this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPq2dHhv0w

:biggrin:

Thanks, that is a funny one!

It looks more like a scene from the dukes of hazard, or James Bond "live and let die", car chases, where the Sheriff's cars end up crashed at funny angles just like that.

 

[John Connor]

How about this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPq2dHhv0w

:biggrin:

I don't understand why they never put out the small spot fire even after the power was out.

 

[Rubycon]

I don't understand why they never put out the small spot fire even after the power was out.

Natural Gas.

If the fire is extinguished the unburned gas could build up and flash or explode.

 

[marvdmartian]

The M1 Abrams can do the same thing.

While parting the hair of the person in the center of that crowd, by firing at, and killing, another tank. 😉

For the brake test, check just before the 6 minute mark on this video. They say an M1A2 can go from 30mph to full stop in 10 feet.

 

[John Connor]

John Connor approves. :thumbsup:

 

[Rubycon]

Braking videos are rather boring though!

Where's the serious stuff like tanks crashing through things like brick buildings? The running over car videos are kind of boring as we know what the outcome is...:whiste:

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

Braking videos are rather boring though!

Where's the serious stuff like tanks crashing through things like brick buildings? The running over car videos are kind of boring as we know what the outcome is...:whiste:

Here is an interesting (at least to me) video about a tank.
Amazingly made by Syrian Rebels out of game console(s) and old car(s).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB1BDrFzFY0

 

[olds]

Beach brakes

 

[ThatsABigOne]

They need ABS on those tanks. 😀

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Meanwhile, back in the 'States...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-44vU0lrAg

:biggrin:

Needs ABS

 

[John Connor]

Here is an interesting (at least to me) video about a tank.
Amazingly made by Syrian Rebels out of game console(s) and old car(s).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB1BDrFzFY0

HAHAHAHA! I'm sure one RPG hit would destroy that thing. Got to admire their ingenuity though.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

HAHAHAHA! I'm sure one RPG hit would destroy that thing. Got to admire their ingenuity though.

I can imagine one of the Rebels, waking up in it drunk and/or on drugs, and then seeing the image (and being a keen gamer of war battle games or something) shooting all the "non-existent" by-standers, etc, in the game.
Until it slowly dawns on them that it is a gaming console/controller + LCD screen, but REAL-LIFE machine gun(s) etc.
Oops...

 

[Rubycon]

Needs ABS

By the look of it, it has ABS. 😉

All that vibration is from the brake modulation going on. That's a waste of some good vibration right there. 😱

 

[John Connor]

That's a waste of some good vibration right there. 😱

LOL!

Regenerative breaking ftw.

 

[jagec]

Anyone else see the irony in the Netherlands buying tanks from Germany?

Hey, the first time was just a free sample to get them hooked.

HAHAHAHA! I'm sure one RPG hit would destroy that thing. Got to admire their ingenuity though.

I doubt that they expect it to withstand anything above small arms fire.