10:54 am
Shake your Arse(nal)
When I was in graduate school, I knew a guy who had two great passions: strippers and military hardware. Boy is he going to love the following video, which is from the Farnborough Air Show. It has to be seen to be believed.
And just so you know ahead of time, although it’s safe for work, it’s, um, well, actually I don’t know what to call it.
If John Cusack had put this in War, Inc. (which, unfortunately, I haven’t seen yet, so maybe he did), nobody would have believed it.
The company in question is Klimov, a Russian engine manufacturer. According to their website,
Klimov Corporation is the leading Russian developer of aircraft engines for helicopters and aircraft. Klimov is also specialized [sic] in the development of helicopter gearboxes, gas turbine engines for ground vehicles (including tanks) and power drives for power and compressor stations of general application. Klimov is best known for its engines for the MiG-29 fighter, the Mi-24 helicopter and the Ka-50 “Black Shark” helicopter and the T-80 tank.
Klimov was the main producer of engines for combat aircraft during the Soviet era, and I presume that they remain either state-owned or state-controlled (couldn’t really tell from their site). Clearly however, they’ve moved beyond the Cold War… to hot babes.
Their “presentation” doesn’t exactly give me confidence in their products. It strikes me as desperate: would you buy an engine from a company just because it had strippers? I mean what do the people at the kiosk say to people? “Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, and General Electric might have better engines, but hey, they don’t have pole dancers!”
Ooh baby, I just love your thrusters….
Hat tip: Sharon Weinberger at Danger Room
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