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Paintball Tank - Paintball Aircannon Madness!

This air cannon is a step up in madness. Will Foster from Flint, Michigan got annoyed playing paintball -- all the "tanks" on the fields were just golf carts with guys in them. So he took it a step up and built a half-scale Panzer Tank! It goes 20 MPH, is a street-legal slow moving vehicle, and most importantly, carries a 360 degree rotating turret which unleashes a hellstorm of paintballs!

Foster estimates current parts total around $2,000 but more than $10,000 was spent on trial-and-error engineering. In the true status of ingenuity and potato gun style, the air cannon shoots varied munitions including golf balls and empty Red Bull cans. It's powered by a scuba tank that gives about 50 shots.

Aside from being a curiosity -- "Kids run after us like we're the ice cream man when we take it out," Foster remarks -- the tank has given him valuable job experience.

After listing it on his resume Foster was recruited by armored vehicle maker Force Protection Inc. for a summer co-op job that he starts this month. Force Protection's Buffalo was seen in the new Transformers Movie.

For more information, check these articles on the tank.
Kettering University student Will Foster builds fully operational half-size Panzer tank

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