Fire Truck Week: Russia has a firefighting tank

Fire truck week: Russia has a firefighting tank

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the Day, day day, day, day, do.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Today and all this week firefighter week. It's going well,
fire fire truck.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I thought it was fire engine fire trucks.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, I said, it's going well. But it was a
lie actually, because the first one was wrong.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's been all over the show. Tomorrow this time tomorrow
we will be officially unveiling the name of the new
Hawks bayt fire truck. We were invited. We've been invited with.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
VIP Guess of honor.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, we'll be down. It will be in n ap
and we'll be broadcasting live tomorrow. Very excited, excited. Well,
I feel like this truck might let us down. I
found what might be the coolest fire engine in the world. Okay,
and this is today's Fact of the Day.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's in Russia and it's a tank. Russia have a
firefighting tank.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Wait, that's but that's a tank, not a fire engine.
Hold your horses.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, you know where the big cannon goes on top
of the tank. Yes, well, instead of a cannon, it
has a jet engine.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
And you might be thinking, but Vaughn, that would be
fanned the fly, that would be fanning the flame, it
would be something's on fire and you run up to it.
Worth That's how you get a fire started. That's how
wild fire has been out of control. A wind swips
them up and blows them through the valley.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Do you remember being a knon learning that blowing on
fire makes it stronger?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
What happens? I've been blowing and I've been blown.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Out candles my whole life. Yeah, that's your only experience
of blowing on flames.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, and that's actually how you get the fire bigger.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, just in front of the jet engine where air
houn's out.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, it has hoses, okay, onboard water tank.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So when it goes fire and cranks up the jet engine,
the water is infused into what it blows, and it's
effectively blowing like high pressure water.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
So the ear that comes out of the jet engine
is at the back.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So with the engine, Yeah, the way it's reversed, it's
reversed sucks air and from the back towards the front.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, no, you just put the engine on the other way.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
How you're backing up to a fine hand behind the
passenger seat.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
No, they go forward, and that that turret can't spend
full three sixty right because the water tanks are kind
of quite heavy on the back, right, and so the
weight of the tank and the fact that they can
drive against the force, yeah, means that it can hold
it there. And then water gets pumped up in front
of the jet and it just blows. It's insanely high

(02:37):
pressure water. Water like a heavy mist, a very heavy
mess that fires and put fires on the battlefield.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Can we have a look just because a video I
told you, I told you that looks like some kind
of James Bond like eighties James Bond villain streamed up
yellin tanks all the Oh that's insane, all the mods.

(03:07):
That's what I'd say that for the listener, that's worth gurgling.
I'll follow. Yeah, I'll agree with that.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
We could put a picture up where you could just
google the Russian tank that fights fire with a jet engine,
which also might be one of the cooler headlines. Yeah
that's ever been associated to.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean, I'm still excited to unveil the you know,
the Flash brand new fire truck tomorrow. Oh, it's a
cool truck.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
The airport ones are amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, they could probably couldn't be rocking around with a.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Getting to a plane quickly would take a while on
that as well.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, that's true. That more unstoppable.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
They rolled the checks also, did it.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Republic also has firefighting tanks. Okay, it's basic, same design.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
You just see one of those cruising down the street
and like Wellington or something, you'd.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Be like, oh my god, the check one's yellow and
it's got a bit of the water tank. It doesn't
look like a tank as much, just stuff strapped on.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, yeah, amazing, that's well.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
This is this is where I tell you who sent
me the fact. Anthony, who is a regular Factor, was
a contributor. So this is why it's good today because
the listeners stepped in.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Listener stepped in. Anthony always knocks out of the park.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's like, hey, i'd like to like I might have
all the weeks fats sort and he's like, I've just
found this, and I'm like, every time you switch, he
finds a great fact.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It'd be a good and have a good place as
a researcher as a job. Certainly would like for you
saying this company will hire me a researcher. No, I
don't think that's on.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I just got a message.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's upstairs. Yep. Hiring a researcher, you get it done so.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Today's fact of the day is Russia has a firefighting tank.