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Russian Tank Drifts, Flips Over and Crashes on Its Side During Training

You know what they say, you can either go hard or go home. That's what the crew of this old Soviet tank was thinking right before they flipped it over. That's right, you can drift a tank and if you do it hard enough, it will flip like a pancake.
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I know you guys will ignore most of the story and go straight to the video. So we need to clarify something straight away, and that is the fact that the crew is not from Russia.

What you are watching is the training that goes on before the annual tank biathlon Russia organizes. It's an international event, and the crew of the T-72 is from Kuwait. Who? You know… that small country Saddam invaded.

The other teams are also trying hard to drift their tanks. However, the Kuwaitis go in full banzai kamikaze dorifto modo and crash.

The track on one side digs into the ground and sends the tank into the air. It rolls onto its turret and comes to a stop after completing an Olympics-worthy maneuver.

We're no experts on the matter, but we think it's not easy to crash a tank like they did. The T-72 may have a V12 diesel engine with around 800 horsepower, but it weighs over 40 tons. The top speed is only 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph), so the Kuwaiti were probably giving it all she's got.

This year, the Russian International Tank Biathlon Championship will feature teams from Angola, Armenia, Venezuela, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Serbia and Tajikistan. Let's hope the guys from the middle east have brushed up on their Initial D skills.

Honestly, I think it’s a pretty darn cool concept, this biathlon thing. It would have been cool if American, British, and German teams came to compete with their own hardware. Make tank dorifto, not war!



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