A video of putting out an oil fire using the MT-12 Rapira gun appeared on the Web

A video appeared on the Web of using the MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun when extinguishing a burning oil well in the Irkutsk Region. The corresponding video was posted by the Ministry of Defense on its YouTube channel.

As explained, the calculation of the artillery guns and the gun itself were transferred to the field from the Samara region. By the time the gunners appeared, the fire had not been able to be extinguished for a week, all standard methods were powerless. The delivered gun was installed at a minimum distance from the target, after which the calculation fired several shots almost "at point blank range", having managed to cut off the fountain reinforcement, thereby knocking down the flame. After that, the oil workers managed to seal the well and put out the fire.

Gun and calculation transferred military transport aviation from the Samara region. From the smallest possible distance of 180 meters, the artillerymen cut off the fountains from the shell with jewelry precision. The work of the gunners helped to establish blowout preventive equipment for further sealing the well and eliminating the fire

- said the press service of the Central Military District.

Representatives of the Pacific Terminal company said that a fire at the well broke out due to depressurization of the fountain valves on May 30 and all attempts to extinguish it failed.

Without the intervention of artillerymen and their anti-tank gun, nothing would have happened

- emphasized in the company.

Comments

[smel]

It has already become a daily practice - well quenching. And always the artillerymen of the Central Military District carry out this task with dignity. Before the dissolution, cadets of the Yekaterinburg Higher Attestation Commission were also involved.

[tikhonov66]

They dug a shitty gun.
He’s jumping a lot.
Your yard is supposed to be made lower (the trunk is almost near the ground),
Then the beds can be dug higher. And the gun hardly jumps.
But here they did it very quickly.
Looks like it was hot.

[Boratsagdiev]

Nobody extinguishes with a "directed explosion"? ...
Or special equipment?
In Soviet times it was like that.

[AVA77]

In the days of the USSR, they even suppressed an atomic explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1ZLVObADE

[Lopatov]

Just when the Soviet Union began to pull out anti-tankers.

[Lopatov]

For gifted minusers

Watch from the 45rd second

[your1970]

3 years the torch burned ... to go nuts ...

[Normal ok]

Quote: BoratSagdiev

Nobody extinguishes with a "directed explosion"? ...
Or special equipment?
In Soviet times it was like that.

In the late 80s - early 90s, there were already samples of firefighting equipment for extinguishing wells operating on a principle similar to the described one (knocking down a flame with a powerful, directed impulse). Only instead of the classic gun, the "shot" was made with water under high pressure.

[Boratsagdiev]

There was a lot of things ... and the tanks on which they put jet engines and these units "blew" the flame.

[Nemo]

They shot down the armature, and did not extinguish the fire itself. At the end of the video, this is clearly visible, the shelling was at night, and there was still a fire during the day.

[Boratsagdiev]

Yes, it is understandable that the "pipe" could fall into place.
The question is different - where is the special equipment? ...
Or what about the fuel storage and hydroelectric power station ... the main thing is revenue, and modernization is for suckers ?!

[seregatara1969]

A good gunner from such a gun for 2000 meters into a brick gets into a dispute.

[Lexa-149]

Oh, these fairy tales, oh, these fairy tales!
Turn on the logic and connect Pupkin's arithmetic with pictures.
The size of the brick is 0,25x0,12x0,06. We calculate according to the formula the thousandth angle at which you will observe the brick, and it turns out 0-00,06. This is significantly less than one thousandth! You have thicker reticle sights! And I am silent about the dispersion ...

[tikhonov66]

"...
A good gunner from such a gun for 2000 meters into a brick gets into a dispute.
..."
- Doctors.
- this is if at the range with a well-dug gun, and even shoot from a 12,5mm extension barrel
- and then for 2000 - in brick - this is not real.
Meters for 500 - and from a supplementary trunk - then yes, you can.
- and for 2000 - and with a practical shot - it will be good if you hit "meter by meter".

and this is the materiel.

[tikhonov66]

extinguish ...
and not only during the USSR

""

[tikhonov66]

- FIZTECH hyperboloid - taxis!
50 kW in continuous mode.
8-))

[Lexus]

Russia is great, but there are no guns (and tanks too?) Any closer? I had to do it for 3 thousand versts. Obviously, "friend C" assured that they are not needed there. Interestingly, if the Chinese still remember about what "primordial" islands on the Amur, or about Baikal, do they send border guards from Kaliningrad right away with spears?

[Alexga]

I myself was surprised, but where did the art division from Shelikhov go?

[Lopatov]

Quote: AlexGa

I myself was surprised, but where did the art division from Shelikhov go?

From Pure Keys.
Even under Medvedev, they finally dispersed. And by that time they had already had "departments" instead of "regiments" for fifteen years

[smel]

The frame has been there since the late 90s. Then we formed a reabr. Then in 2013 it was moved to Chebarkul, and the town was "mothballed". The commander during the redeployment was Tainov

[Lexus]

Obviously, "she's gone." At the "zero" everything by itself blazes, explodes, collapses, drowns, falls. Just as suddenly, the prices and the welfare of the buddies rise. They will even say about the taiga gnawed on chopsticks that they were cut down and evacuated to China for safety reasons, so that they would not accidentally burn out.

[AU Ivanov.]

Yeah, when the scoop, nothing burned, did not explode, did not collapse, and did not sink. The forest was not exported in millions of cubic meters over the hill. Chernobyl is a fake; in Arzamas, a firecracker exploded.

[Lexus]

Only a creature without honor with a filthy mouth could call that Great Country a "scoop". The present, feudal one, just surpassed the USSR in the export of natural resources. All 15 republics combined. There are no more successes - only the gnawing of the Soviet legacy with ungrateful maggots, ready to pupate and take wing at any moment.

[Lopatov]

Quote: lexus

Obviously "she disappeared"

In fact, "she disappeared" under the USSR. Together with a motorized rifle division.
And under the current "feudal" one they just sent the junk into arsenals and melted down.
After all, this is complete piiiiip, when two regiments armed with ML-20 in the division have a pre-war development weapon, 37 years old ...

[your1970]

Quote: Spade

For gifted minusers

-there Lopatov above brought a movie from the 60s ... where torch 3 (THREE !!!) years burned

[ssergey1978]

Clean Keys or what? Long gone, 10 years or more.

[Lopatov]

Quote: lexus

Apparently "friend of C"

"Friend Dan"

[Narak-zempo]

Quote: lexus

Obviously, "friend C" assured that they are not needed there

So conceived.
Next time something will catch fire, and Comrade X will send to extinguish his military men. Divisions so 200

[Unclebens]

Yes, sniper, from the fifth shot from 180 meters, that's cool !!! And if the tank, in kind?

[Lopatov]

The tank is a bit larger

[novel66]

who didn’t shoot himself - he makes more noise ...

[svp67]

Quote: Spade

The tank is somewhat larger in size.

Which is all occupied by iron, and not by thin pipes, from which only a few should be interrupted ...

[svp67]

Quote: UncleBens

Yes, sniper, from the fifth shot from 180 meters, that's cool !!! And if the tank, in kind?

And it never occurred to you that in this situation, if we compare it with the tank, then it was necessary to cut off the antenna input, the wind sensor, and the anti-aircraft machine gun barrel in sequence. Would you be able to?

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: svp67

Would you be able to?

Me not. I'm not a gunner. But the gunner should have, at least from the second shot.
Why? Because nothing threatened the life of the gunner, no one rushed him.
But in a real battle with enemy tanks, when there is a real threat to life and there is an understanding - whoever shoots first is alive, he would be a gunner, from what shot would he hit the tank? Given the distance to the goal of 2 km.

[svp67]

Quote: Krasnoyarsk

whoever shoots first is alive, he would be a gunner, from what shot would he hit the tank? Given the distance to the goal of 2 km.

Provided that the projectile could penetrate the tank’s armor, even if it could do it from the second shot, they have a higher chance of surviving the confrontation with a single tank due to rate of fire.
And in this case, they fired normally, the gun is usually fired when the barrel is warmed up, so the first was warming up, the second was clearly successful, and the third was a control

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: svp67

And in this case, they fired normally, the gun is usually fired when the barrel is warmed up, so the first was warming up, the second was clearly successful, and the third was a control

Not a gunner, I won’t argue.

[tikhonov66]

"... they have higher chances of surviving in a confrontation with a single tank due to the rate of fire.
..."
- there is such a thing as a calculated coefficient of fire behavior in defense.
I don’t know how it is now, but in the 70s the calculation coefficient for the T-100 was "0.9"
This means that if 9 tanks are expected to attack in a tank-hazardous direction, then in order to repel the attack, it WAS (and this was back in the 70s!) To deliver 10 (ten) T-100 ...
And for calculating the pturs "baby" - the coefficient was 1.1
(well, that is, at least ONE tank each calculation - on average, ess-no -
BEFORE YOUR DESTRUCTION - theoretically - had to destroy)

- war is a terrible thing.
there are all suicide bombers.

[tikhonov66]

"...
Yes, sniper, from the fifth shot from 180 meters
..."
There, finally, TURBULENT flows of HOT ascending air
YES, and the wind ... - in one word - those "mirages"
One thing is visible, but it flies in a different way.
That's corrected according to the results of the previous shot (on the tracer) ..

[1976AG]

So this event has been for many years, why was it laid out again? Nothing more to write about?

[Nemo]

Can I have a reference to your event? For example, I have a link to the fact that the event was this year https://tass.ru/sibir-news/8646611
Or do you not trust TASS?

[1976AG]

A few years ago in the news showed the same thing. What are the links on the TV?

[1976AG]

So the story repeats once again ..

[Well done]

Well, a job! And we whine here, self-isolation ... It was necessary to enter the arthuh and naughty 100mm, not 5.45. (maybe I am wrong, "Rapier" 100 mm? Tolstoy loved her)

[tikhonov66]

The rapier is the T-100.
100mm, barrel 4,5 meters. smoothbore. The initial velocity of the projectile is 3 speeds of sound.
the maximum elevation is 15 degrees, otherwise the barrel breaks off the carriage.
Knurl and recoil brake are hydraulic.
"Rest" pressure in the reel - 150 (one hundred fifty) atmospheres

Charging is unitary.
Imagine a giant cartridge (shot) from a three-ruler,
with the height of the "cartridge" - slightly more than "to the waist" 8-)).
There are 2 (TWO) such shots in the shell box (standard capping).
This is not a "magpie" for you - they brought a box of shells - but they were "like seeds" ...

[Well done]

Thank. (T-100? Just like a terminator.))

[Bykov.]

having managed to cut off the fountain fittings, thereby knocking down the flame.

They didn’t shoot down the flames with the cannon, but hit the frontal reinforcement, which prevented the installation of blowout control equipment and thereby extinguish the flames.

[Archivist Vasya]

Firstly, they didn’t do it from the first shot, and then what kind of frontal reinforcement ?! Nonsense. Why with a cannon is there really no RPG shot? Why even interrupt her ...

[Lopatov]

Quote: Archivist Vasya

Why even interrupt her ...

To cover a burning well with a "cap" from above, blocking access to oxygen
As a "silencer" for candles, have you seen this?

Well fittings, often severely damaged, prevent this. And they knock her down.

[Archivist Vasya]

Thanks, clear. But to drag a gun for this is already too much. It would be possible to fill up with construction equipment - to press down with a stove or something else.

[Lopatov]

Quote: Archivist Vasya

It would be possible to fill up with construction equipment - to press down with a stove or something else.

The technique will burn

At one time, Gazprom allocated money for laser technology to replace guns.
On the web can be found.

[faridg7]

Vasya, and you're into a pipe with a diameter of 100 mm from a hundred meters from an RPG in general can you hit? Let's just say from the box of shots? Take a walk ... The guys are generally a sniper, if they hit the 180-centimeter mark with an unguided projectile from 10 meters. By the way, there Uncle Bens asked about the tank above, so the tank is "slightly" in angular size larger than this target. This is the first thing. Second, the rapier can target tanks with guided projectiles. I shot in my youth from a rapier at an armored personnel carrier, from 800 meters the operator in a circle of 15-20 centimeters outlined with chalk

[Archivist Vasya]

Why into the pipe? It is necessary to shoot at the base of the ground, there you will not miss.

[faridg7]

For those under the armored train. The well had to be extinguished. to do this, it is necessary to install something like a cap over it, and after that the receiving fittings will be connected to the well pipe — the well must not be destroyed, but restored. If you hammer into the base near the ground, then the head of the borehole underground will be scattered, how to connect to it?

[Archivist Vasya]

Heh heh, well, about the fact that there was no way to restore the speech, just put it out. Then dig out when the fire is extinguished, patch up and ready. And what?

[faridg7]

Dig yourself in an explosive atmosphere yourself?

[Archivist Vasya]

And what is it, they dig in the mines, it is also explosive there. Especially if you put out then what will be explosive.

[faridg7]

The farther into the forest, the more stupidity. In the mines they put sensors on the content of methane and other gases, and work there in relatively normal air. And if the content of explosive gases is higher than the permissible (the atmosphere becomes explosive), all work ceases. There are true figures who roughen sensors so as not to interrupt work on each run, but such tricks usually end with corpses.
And if you pay it out (stew meat with potatoes), then the gas that breaks out of the well is mixed with the surrounding air. In childhood, it was necessary to listen carefully to teachers at school. Or is your childhood not over yet?

[Archivist Vasya]

Interestingly, alas, we have not been told this. Well, in general, yes it did not end)))

[tikhonov66]

"...
Is there really no RPG shot?
..."
"RPG" leaves a hole in the armor with a PENCIL diameter.
Well, or a little more.

But the T-100 "demolishes" a 100-120mm pipe - CLEAN.

[Radikal]

The delivered gun was installed at a minimum distance from the target, after which the crew fired several shots almost "point-blank", managing to cut off the Christmas tree, thereby knocking down the flame. After that, the oilmen managed to seal the well and put out the fire.

What can I say - well done! Do not forget the Soviet experience.

[Radikal]

Quote: Archivist Vasya

Thanks, clear. But to drag a gun for this is already too much. It would be possible to fill up with construction equipment - to press down with a stove or something else.

... archivists ....
P.S. Sorry, it painfully spun on ... fingertips.

[svp67]

The delivered gun was installed at a minimum distance from the target, after which the crew fired several shots almost "point-blank", managing to cut off the Christmas tree, thereby knocking down the flame.

Judging by the frame of the sight, all installations in range are set to "O", but I just did not understand what type of projectile they fired ... although the flying tracer shows that this is something from an anti-tank arsenal, or armor-piercing or practical cumulative ...
Well done gunners. Task completed

[sergo1914]

Quote: svp67

something from an anti-tank arsenal, or armor-piercing or practical cumulative ..

To shoot from it with a land mine - the perversion is cleaner ... Well, in general ... bad manners. Not for that, it was created.

[svp67]

Quote: sergo1914

Shoot from it with a land mine - the perversion is cleaner ...

Well, it was possible to use OFS in practice, it has larger ones and stabilizers that would cut these pipes like a blade

[tikhonov66]

stabilizers - they are stabilizers and are absolutely not suitable for "cutting" something.
The thickness is about 3 mm and the diameter of the axis on which they rotate (in order to open after departure from the trunk) is the same as 3-4 mm.

[svp67]

Quote: tikhonov66

stabilizers - they are stabilizers and are absolutely not suitable for "cutting" something.

At such a distance, they would easily cut this pipe ..

[Old Horseradish]

And I did not understand how they put out? A shot is being fired on the video, and the flame doesn’t even react. Did they knock anything down there? Nothing is clear on the video. Then a long pipe and again a flame.

[ioan-e]

If in the USA the white house suddenly lights up, you are welcome, ours will be put out in a few volleys

[sergo1914]

Experienced guys. They even brought rubble. Somehow, at the training ground, in practice, because of the shield, we gushed out of it.

[tikhonov66]

behind the shield - more or less, but when the guns are "ledge forward" - and the nearest neighbor makes a shot,
then you understand why gunners need to open their mouths ...

[Lexa-149]

No guns were found near ?!