Russia has a truck with a hunting turboreactor to clean its tanks

The Soviet Union is fertile terrain for science fiction dystopias. Both the Communist architecture that hugged brutalism Like your weapons They keep calling attention. The Cold war It was a time when the USSR was characterized by Develop revolutionary armament and for creating huge vehicles such as the Ekranoplan (that China wants to rescue) or the rocket transport. And what they could take advantage of, took advantage of it. The best example was a monstrous truck to which they hit a hunting turboreactor and that allocated to the chemical war.

The best? Now Russia uses it to wash its tanks and ships.

Recycling. Striking combat fighters there are lots, but one that attracts attention is the MIG-17. The reason is that it seems that Morro is missing, which gives a very curious presence to hunting. Another of its differentiating aspects was the TURBOJET KILMOV VK-1a derivative of the British engine Rolls-Royce Nene that allowed the MIG-17 to reach Mach 1 speeds.

He made his first flight in January 1950, but for the 60s, the Soviet development had advanced with the MIG-19 and the mythical MIG-21. These new fighters did not assemble the VK-1 turbojet, which was used exclusively in the MIG-15MIG-17 and in the IL-28 bomberwhich left the Soviets with a lot of engines for scrapping. “Nothing is thrown here,” they had to think, and they were devised to create something quite crazy.

TMS-65U. Although modern chemical weapons began to be used in large quantities during the First and Second World Warin the Cold War they lived A terrifying expansion. As these weapons were developed, countermeasures were investigated to decontaminate. And that’s when Soviet engineers were lit the bulb.

They took a Ural 375 6×6a huge military truck with six wheels that can circulate on any land and that has great resistance and load capacity, and set up a 900-liter deposit in the rear, as well as a turret in which they embedded one of the VK-1 turboreactors. The photos of the result are of science fiction and could have left the Videogame ‘Red Alert’ perfectly. Your name? TMS-65U.

Decontaminant. And the idea was not bad. The reaction engine can generate a good stream of both heat and air, but by modifying to expel vaporized liquid, a very potent gauge of gas is achieved at a large temperature. And its operation was simple: turbojet generates that burst of hot air and a nozzle throws that decontaminating fluid. The huge engine power spray that liquid and the turret allows the operator to point directly wherever.

In the context of the Cold War, it had all the meaning to decontaminate other vehicles such as tanks, transport, airplanes or ships, since the reach of the turret is considerable, but the funny thing is that it continues to be used today.

Turbokarker. That jet at hot air and decontaminating agent is a great mixture because detoxifies while decontamin (thanks to heat) Chemical and biological agents that may be attached to the surface of the vehicles, being a faster and more efficient way than manual scrubbing for this type of tasks. Is Like a karcherbut vitamin, which can also be used to decontaminate areas.

The problem is that it consumes a lot of fuel and, if you do not sign up, you can disperse vaporized chemical contaminants in the area. In this video you can see working:

Turbomultiusos. Now, it would be a waste to use a turboreactor just to clean and, as we have already said, the Soviet era takes advantage (although the Ukraine War that arsenal is being carried ahead inherited). And the TMS-65U serves much more than to decontaminate vehicles. A example It is its function on the battlefield deploying dense smoke curtains to allow moving allied units without the enemy being able to see them.

Long life to VK-1. And apart from the uses of TMS-65U, which is worth mentioning is the very long life that VK-1 turbojets are having. For example, they are used to Clean debris On the aircraft carrier track such as the Kuznetsov, as if it were a huge blower, but also to clean the snow that affects the takeoff of commercial airplanes. And, well, for reuse the turbojets … we can also mention the train that I went to 250 km/h in the 70 thanks to them.

It is evident that it is very exaggerated to mount a turboreactor in a truck to be a giant blower, but it is also clear that, although this creation is 60 years after its back (plus the more than 80 that has the own engine on which it is based), if something works, do not touch it.

Images | VITALY V. KUZMIN, A thousand.ru

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