So, this is apparently the Russian International Tank Biathlon (Thank you, Jalopnik). Yes, this is a thing.
"There’s actually some pretty sweet tank drifting and water fording in general in this video, but the real operative moment comes around 1:53 in... I’m no fluent speaker of Russian, but I’m pretty sure you can hear the guy recording the video go all 'oh man, I’m putting this on Youtube for sure.'
The ridiculous tank driving comes to us courtesy of Russia’s International Tank Biathlon Championship, which, in addition to featuring the host country’s T-72s and China’s Type 96As, also features T-72s from the traditionally glorious tank warfare nations of Angola, Armenia, Venezuela, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Serbia and Tajikistan, according to Russia Today."
Does anyone have any inside into how the US Army and Marines undertake the same challenge? Or the German Leopard crews?
In Russia...
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SFOGuysays...*promote
siftbotsays...Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 11:17am PDT - promote requested by original submitter SFOGuy.
CrushBugsays...I love the "YouTube" yelling at the end!
Asmosays...I hope the only person in that tank is the fucking driver because there is an awful lot of metal in the turret to fuck one self up on...
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