[Sharon]

Three men were dumping a truck load of fireworks in the desert. After digging a hole for dumping the load, something went wrong and the whole load exploded. Explosions usually result in extensive heat, a positive air pressure wave due to expansion by heat followed by a negative air pressure wave due to air suction to the center of explosion. These combined effects cause severe mutilation of the body. One can notice in the first picture the effect of heat at the edges of the dumping hole and the rest of picture show the extensive mutilation of the bodies of those poor men to the degree that some bodies were identified by DNA typing.

"the dumping hole"

Why were they dumping fireworks in the desert anyway

[Sharon]

**tumbleweed blows across this thread as the wind howls and the coyotes wail*

[wolfie]

I like hearing coyotes wail at night. Your right about the dynamics during an explosion. I have seen people sucked back very near the point of explosion.

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by wolfie ↗

I like hearing coyotes wail at night. Your right about the dynamics during an explosion. I have seen people sucked back very near the point of explosion.

What do/did you do Wolfie? You're a very interesting person

[wolfie]

Not on the net babe!

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by wolfie ↗

Not on the net babe!

"Say no more...nudge, nudge, wink, wink"

[kik]

Looks like a military strike of some sort to me, fire works will not do that to a dump truck, also it wasn't a dump truck either, looking at the chassis and the diff setup my guess is it was a troop transporter.

[wolfie]

Originally Posted by kik ↗

Looks like a military strike of some sort to me, fire works will not do that to a dump truck, also it wasn't a dump truck either, looking at the chassis and the diff setup my guess is it was a troop transporter.

I can't tell for sure kik. But it does look like 4 wheel independent suspension and probably 4 wheel drive. Is that what you see?

That looks to me like an independent rear end. Drum brakes?

[kik]

It is a perplexing image wolfie, it is not independant rather a live axle configuration with heavy upper and lower trailing arms, what confuses me however is what should be the right axle (diff is upsidedown) is to long for the housing, but it sure is one heavy duty diff no question there, also dump trucks have a two speed diff from what I can make out this does not, typically military truck do not require two speed diffs because of the huge pwer plant they run and also typical of the military is simplicity of construction for fast on the battlefield repairs.

You are right on the drum brakes, and they are huge again typical military, also note this is not a dual wheel diff rather a massive tire on a huge rim to compensate for the difficulty of changing an inner tire, this is also typical of a modern troop transporter.

One thing the military insists on for ground vehicles is simplicity in regards to repairs.

WWII was paramount in the learning of expediant repairs hence the inception of the Jeep and the later Hummer both very easy to work on in military form.

The other thing about the first image is that fireworks could never produce such devastation to such a hardy piece of equipment.

That axle still has me perplexed however.

[kik]

A shot in the dark here, but this could well be our mystery vehicle, this is a British Mastiff troop carrier, it has offset diffs which would account for the strange configuration, also note wolfie that most of the items have been cut off with oxy equipment quite common for the military to do, they scrounge what can be re-used and leave the rest to have parts on hand and to save money.

These puppies are very expensive like most military shit and this will be why so little of such a large and strong vehicle is left.

Download the image and blow it up (no pun intended) and you can clearly see where the oxy has been, I know you will spot it being an ex demo man.