Thursday, August 6, 2015

Doofus Of The Day #849


Today's prize goes to the Kuwaiti crew of a T-72 tank at the Russian "International Tank Biathlon Championship", which began a few days ago.

In the video clip below, the first two tanks come around a sharp corner, sliding on the dirt, before lining up to negotiate a water obstacle.  The third tank, driven by the Kuwaiti crew, makes its appearance at about the 1m. 55sec. mark, and slides a little too enthusiastically.  Watch in full-screen mode to catch all the action.





If you ever wanted to know the Russian for "That's going on YouTube!", now you do.




Peter

11 comments:

Aaron said...

There's a lesson here: I think it's that with dirt and enough power, you can drift a tank.

Sherm said...

See what happens when you don't lean into the turn.

Murphy's Law said...

OK, I want one of those now.

richard mcenroe said...

They rolled a tank. On level ground. I begin to understand Israel's survival...

Snoggeramus said...

My goodness ... these comments alone are priceless! Drift a tank, Israel's survival ... etc :-)

Anonymous said...

You haven't lived until you have driven an M-1 on ice.

mostly cajun said...

"Drifting" an M60A1 was a game we played back when I was an instructor at Fort Knox.
http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=12021

Heady stuff, especially when somebody else is footing the bill.

MC

Anonymous said...

Hold my tea and watch this!

Gerry

fast richard said...

"Bot eto youtube"

richard mcenroe said...

Flew an M-113 once. Okay, it doesn't fly worth a damn but it LANDS like a sonuvabitch...

perlhaqr said...

Man. Someone is going on latrine duty for a *long* time, I think.