{"id":188720,"date":"2010-08-07T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/07\/the-trippiest-russian-military-demonstrations-ever\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T10:42:00","slug":"the-trippiest-russian-military-demonstrations-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/07\/the-trippiest-russian-military-demonstrations-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trippiest Russian Military Demonstrations Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jcT_fQIP6bU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jcT_fQIP6bU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Them <span>Russkies<\/span> Know How to Drive a Tank<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A1ZhmYMeYnQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A1ZhmYMeYnQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"244\" width=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>Seeing a tank do motocross jumps is almost as weird as the guys with the flaming helmets<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/07\/flaming-helmets-dancing-tanks-at-russian-arms-expo\/\">Danger Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a couple of geek notes about these displays:<\/p>\n<p>First, look at the main gun:  They have a larger bore (125 mm vs 120 mm in the west) and a longer length, which implies to me that, probably for metallurgical issues related to wear, they operate at a lower pressure than the western (German) guns, and make up for it with barrel length and bore diameter.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Russian tank suspension ant track designers take a back seat to no one.<\/p>\n<p>I half expected one of the tanks to throw a track.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, is it just me, or did the tanks curtsy at the end of the top video?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Them Russkies Know How to Drive a Tank Seeing a tank do motocross jumps is almost as weird as the guys with the flaming helmets Courtesy of Danger Room. I do have a couple of geek notes about these displays: First, look at the main gun: They have a larger bore (125 mm vs 120 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1033,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-russia","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}