The Russian spinoff of the blockbuster hit \u201cFury\u201d is not going as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone who has experience driving any number of ground-based military vehicles knows that despite their myriad capabilities, the number of blindspots necessitates a ground guide \u2014 oftentimes multiple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tanks have gadgets and gizmos aplenty and whozits and whatzits galore. But you want blindspots? It\u2019s got twenty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such was the case for one unfortunate Russian soldier endeavoring to load a World War II era Soviet T-34 tank onto a vehicle transport truck, a cringeworthy moment captured in a recently-circulated video from the country\u2019s 2018 Kursk military parade. The concept may have been simple enough, but so many things went awry with the execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, the operator was steering from the enclosure instead of from an exposed position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, even using an exposed vantage point, the tank operator\u2019s collection of blind spots should have warranted a handful of ground guides. Yet there was only one \u2014 two if you count the frantic set of hands that quickly vanish from the small opening on the tank\u2019s nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vehicle\u2019s elevated approach on the ramp means the driver\u2019s vantage point would have been assisted by a lone ground guide, but only if the guide possessed the mystical power of levitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n