Them Russkies Know How to Drive a Tank
Seeing a tank do motocross jumps is almost as weird as the guys with the flaming helmets
Courtesy of Danger Room.
I do have a couple of geek notes about these displays:
First, look at the main gun: They have a larger bore (125 mm vs 120 mm in the west) and a longer length, which implies to me that, probably for metallurgical issues related to wear, they operate at a lower pressure than the western (German) guns, and make up for it with barrel length and bore diameter.
Also, Russian tank suspension ant track designers take a back seat to no one.
I half expected one of the tanks to throw a track.
Finally, is it just me, or did the tanks curtsy at the end of the top video?