Based on older Russian idea, Hungarian "Big Wind" project was for the first time used to deal with Kuwait oil fires in 1991.

Using two MiG-21 engines, mounted on a T34 or T62 tank chassis, this machine can blast, at very high speed, a huge amount of fine mist of water to extinguish a resilient fires, blown out gas or oil-well fires.

Technical details

• crew:  driver, controller and a fire chief  
• two MiG-21 engines on T34 or T62 tank chassis
• six fire hoses, 9000 gallons/minute 
• 2x 27,000lbs of thrust blowing the water at 770mph

Original Russian concept was used to blow out the snow from railways, roads or airport runways by using single Mig-15 or Mig-17 jet engine.

Simple, effective and probably very noisy.

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