Name: He Spent $5 million On A Tank Called Jumbo
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T16:57:55.000Z
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We have enough space to put 15,000 liters, water.

If you are in this, you feel like a king.

In Greece, a company called RAM Europe are working hard to make machines that are literally saving lives.

I am president and CEO of RAM Europe company.

Our company manufactures several kinds of machines.

In the beginning, it was manufacturing of agricultural machine.

We manufacture beach cleaning machine, the machines for composting, the organic materials of the garbages, and several other machines, the separation of recyclable materials.

Theodore has made some pretty awesome machines, but by far the coolest is a decommissioned tank he custom fit into a fire engine to fight the incessant and increasing wildfires Greece faces.

It's possible to move in difficult condition.

It's possible to receive more water than the traditional firefighting vehicle.

And of course, it's possible to open roads into the forest.

On the front, we have one big dozer, 3.5 meters.

It's 650 horsepower and velocity 60 kilometers per hour.

I'm assuming a tank this size would be able to store a lot of water.

We have enough space to put 15,000 liter water.

All the traditional vehicle go to the field with 1,000 liter, 3,000 liter, 4,000 liter.

Also, the aerial systems carry approximately 4,500 liter.

And if you drop from the air, finally in the air arrive 1,050 liter.

The most important thing is the possibility to spread this water with the cannon that have on the front in one distance of 18 meters to manipulate through the joystick and to make focus where is a fire.

Greece, like many other parts of the world, is experiencing wildfires that are more frequent and severe year on year.

And with Greece's mountainous and arid terrain, it becomes difficult for firefighters to access many areas quickly or easily.

One day, we have some very old cars and it goes in front of us.

You have the possibility with one tanks to pass through the cars without meaning nothing.

I make this and goes the jumbo like this, make a one movement like this, destroy the car and we continue without any problem.

We have also the possibility to recharge our cell phones.

We have, of course, a lot of water that the other volunteers given to us, sandwiches.

If you save houses, it's not possible to stop.

Some nights we sleep on the top because we have also on the top the possibility to sleep out summer with mattresses.

For two, three hours, it's possible to relax.

Today, it was very difficult day because it was second day without sleep.

So, Fyodor, do you remember your first mission with the tank?

My first mission, it was 2007 with the fires.

Somebody called me, the firefighters, says to me, please go with your jumbo into the museum of Olympia.

It was not possible with hoses to go there because the fires, it was 17, 18 meters.

It was not possible to go into the museum, the traditional tracks, because have tires.

We go inside to the museum and we spread with this cannon and with this big quantity of water that we spread, we save the museum.

When we was the floods in region of Thessalia and in Larissa, we help 4,200 people to go from each party of Greece to the other party of Greece.

Totally 38 to 42 every time to go in the hospitals, to make chemotherapy, to make cardiological examination.

In the region, in the municipality of Palamas, it was several families on the houses without the possibility to be out.

And we carry to them, of course, with participation of municipality and local volunteers, bottle of waters, a sandwich, this kind of things.

First of all, it's not easy because the decision belongs to our government, to our Ministry of Defense.

If you explain to them that you want to make something good for the country, it's possible to do.

It's not easy, it's difficult, but yes, it's possible.

It was very difficult for the Greek bureaucracy to buy one for the Greek army.

We spent approximately 4.5 million euros to finish all this project.

The profile of our activity is something that is new.

But believe me, if you are a pioneer, it's not easy.

It's necessary to find money, it's necessary to pay the people, the personnel, the suppliers.

If I want to make one only transport per day, the cost is 1,800 euros.

Each time that is necessary to fill the tank, we need 3,000 euros.

If I make one calculation, approximately 40,000 to 50,000 euros every year to the field.

Luckily, Theodore has started to get help and funding for his project from the Greek government.

The last year, the Greek government started to accept innovation products and companies that work in these innovation projects.

The last year, the Greek army supported us, gave to us one special truck for the transportation of tanks and helped us without paying the transportation cost, without paying the diesel inside.

I was very glad that my country participated.

Also, we have the European Union and European Fund that possibly support us.

I received one official answer from the Ministry of Defense that if we want a tank that is not useful to the defense of my country, instead of going like scrap, the Ministry of Defense is open to collaborate with us.

Let's hope that Theodore's incredible inventions will continue to save lives for many years to come.

To the firefighters that support us, I want to tell them a very big thank you and I want to promise to them everywhere that we'll be without JumboTruck Multi, if it's one difficult time for them, we are there to support also and to save them into the chamber.

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