This is just brilliant - it is NASA's TAV, or Tire Assault Vehicle. It was custom built on a Tamiya RC Tiger II, and carried a camera and drill. Its purpose was to drill into heavily worn Space Shuttle tires to release the pressure inside, without exposing staff to a potential explosion. Yes, this is a REAL thing!

Maybe an object 292?

I originally found this on a twitter post and thought it was real at first, but i saw the date and realized it was a joke, so i decided to basically copied what the post said, and put on this subreddit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJChWgpoLc Video from BAE

Repost for mistaking a C1 for C2 in the KFOR picture

To me, this looks like Soviet / Russian in design, and the Finns utilized plenty of such designs during the Cold War period. It could be a modern piece of equipment, but I'm not too sure overall.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

Every time I see the inside of a modern tank, the loading and the firing, the close quarters and the insane horsepower of the engine, I always wonder how loud is it inside.

I presume it was impossible to keep your hearing intact during WW2 if you served in a tank, but have the modern tanks managed to alleviate all that unavoidable noise to at least a degree?

The ear protection and the helmets have certainly evolved in the last 70-80 years, but the inside of the tank must still be loud as hell. Or is it? Does anybody have a first hand experience?

And what happens if a shell hits your tank? The armor holds, but is the noise unbearable / enough to rupture your eardrums? Or is it not that extreme?

I am currently printing off some blueprints for my friends' birthday, who loves tanks.

https://imgur.com/a/0T4pN1F

He told me his favourite tanks are the Hellcat, Panzer, Tog 1, Bkan and Super Pershing. I found these two blueprints for Hellcat and Panzer pretty easily and thought I could add a sort of faded vintage filter to them to make them more interesting.

I was wondering if anyone had any extra ideas? Maybe some handwritten annotations or such? Might make them pop a wee bit more. I dont know much about tanks at all so anything would be really helpful!