I really love that whole story. The tank is obviously very badass of course, but there were a lot of other cool ideas too. Folks from Texas just thrown explosi

I really love that whole story. The tank is obviously very badass of course, but there were a lot of other cool ideas too. Folks from Texas just thrown explosives on the fire until it blown it out. There was some other nation who lifted in a long pipe over the fire, forcing the oil to go in the pipe which obviously kept burning at the top of the tube. And then they suddenly tipped the pipe to the side. The oil was still flowing of course, but when they got the timing right they could remove the oil stream fast enough from the heat that it got extinguished. That looked like a very ingenious solution from the lower-tech side of the spectrum. > ... but not that the water was jet powered. I found this video[1]. It sounds like it's not really that the water was jet powered. They were blowing out the fire with the oxygen-depleted exhaust of the jet engines and they mixed water into the exhaust to further enhance the process with the cooling effect. Or at least that's what the guy in the red helmet next to the machine says in Hungarian. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ss3BMrscE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ss3BMrscE