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In the first and second image you see the TRAD undeployed and deployed. This is the 2014 variant when it was first built, and it's threshold is around 215~ with it's weight being around 12,000lbs. And all of these are the same and the vehicle is based around the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE. In the third and fourth pictures you see the 2015 variant where it gains side flaps, a full front flap and it ditches the back flap, adds a huge rear back window for filming and gets a clear guard on the back tires. In the fifth and sixth picture you see the 2018 version. And during June 6th 2018, the TRAD crew didn't have enough time to deploy in the 2018 Laramie WY tornado, and they got damage heavily, injuring all of the crew mildly which is shown in the seventh picture. And they sold it after that, putting it on sale August 7th, 2019 and it got bought by Jeremy Hodges (fictional) who then fixed up the TRAD and made it operational again in 2023, which you can see in the eighth and nineth pictures. Where he added better spikes, a new flap deployment system, and a rubber skirt, also removing the side flap. (Also I made a mistake in the deployment of the 2023 TRAD and made the flaps go far into the ground when it was only meant to be used a point of contact to stabilize the vehicle and not let wind get under it. In the tenth and eleventh images you can see the 2025 variant of the TRAD, which is the most recent and it features side flaps, but allowing entrance when undeployed finally and helping it achieve it's highest wind threshold estimate of around 240~.

And in the final twelfth image, you can see a bonus image of when they added googly eyes on the 2014 variant of the TRAD.

I introduce to you the TRAD (Tornado Research And Development Vehicle)
Rate it honestly, and I'll tell you the stats.
Stats: It's based off the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE, it's around 22 feet, and weighs approximately 12,500~ pounds. The deployment time takes around 24-ish seconds as it has to drop the airbags, then the flaps followed by spikes. It also has an inside filming camera that the crew would upload to Youtube. The filming camera is the ARRI Alexa Classic which is a high quality camera for the time of when it was built which it was built in June of 2013 and then finally on the road in around April of 2014. My estimated windspeed threshold for this is around 220~ depending on the intensity of the tornado, but that's pretty hard to estimate as actual wind thresholds are never known. But anyways give it an honest rating, I just wanted to post something cool.