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GAZ M 20 "Victory" - snowmobile "North". GAZ M 20 "Victory" - snowmobile "North". 1960-1961 produced 100 airsledges "North". In 1959, GV Helicopter Design Office of NI Kamov was created car-snowmobile Sever-2. Production car "Victory", mounted on skis with aircraft engines AI-14 power 260...

GAZ 62 An experimental multi-terrain vehicle. All four wheels were leading with switchable drive forward. The car had engine type GAZ-51, spar frame, the dependent spring suspension of all wheels, sealed drum brakes, installed in front of the radiator hoist. Along the sides of the body there...

ZIL-E167 Pilot all-terrain vehicle all terrain designed for use in cross-country with harsh climatic conditions. In the motion super off-road cited two ZIL-375 engines to 118 hp each transmit power on-board scheme. Placed behind the engine for better cooling air inlets were provided on each...

Based on the ideas of NAMI-0157 was created by serial swamp-run Ural-5920. Ural-5920 equipped with 240-strong Yaroslavl diesel engine YMZ-238M2, modern hydraulic rotating mechanism and rubber tracks with increased resource and the load was adjusted to 10 tons (without an increase in ground...

NAMI-0157 Support frame with an open platform (bearing capacity of 8 tons) was based on two identical rotating crawler tracks in two supporting-turning device, and instead of traditional steel rollers. Developers ventured to use the pneumatic rollers. At the same time on this all terrain...

The first Soviet-wheel-drive car with a 8x8. Was assembled in a single copy in November 1932. The car was equipped American Continental-22R engine and gearbox. (Engine - 6-cylinder, 8,190 cm3, 120 hp) machine could overcome moats width of 1,5 meters, take the steep climbs of 30 degrees, in...

This could be masterpiece is... war prevented. I beg to love and favor: the T-34M (factory index of A-43), the full upgrade for T-34, January-July 1941. According to the recollections of veterans of the plant № 183 by the time evacuation of the plant in Siberia were ready 5 towers and 3 armored...

Japanese Tank Type 5 "Chi-Ri". On photo of the prototype, captured by Americans...

Armament consisted of a 76.2-mm and 37 mm twin cannons, two twin heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft heavy machine gun. The tank was manufactured with housings of different configurations: a base modification Mb block was molten, while the M6A1 and M6A2 versions - welded. On the M6 ​​and M6A1...

Experimental self-propelled unit Praying Mantis. Armoured Corps with two remote-controlled "Branagh" gun. Gun could climb to 11 feet up. The idea is interesting, but in practice proved to be ineffective. UK. 1940.

Tank TH-1 by engineer Grote. Tank built in 1930 had at that unique in its time. Weapons system placed in three tiers: in high tower 37-m gun, at the bottom of the tower 76-mm gun and 5 machine gun. Armor forehead hull and turret - 44-50mm board - 16-20mm, roof and bottom 10-16mm. The length...

This tank received the designation 44, this new tanks looks like a such a hybrid tank WWW1 times and the German Tiger-B.

Immediately after liberation in 1944, French designers in an emergency procedure started to design a heavy tank.

In July 1941 USSR decided to manufacture .... armored tractors. Of the several projects have been selected HTZ-16 (T-16). It was the chassis of the tractor STZ-5 on which is mounted on an armored hull of 10-30mm sheets. Armament: 45 mm cannon and machine-guns. In fact HTZ-16 was improvised...

Observer tank «Kugelpanzer» also known as tank-ball. This invention is also rather paradoxical ideas Teutonic genius. It is not known to what purpose. It was created by a single technological sample with the motorcycle engine. The only surviving prototype labeled "Instance 37" exposed in a...

From armored giants move on to an armored shrimp. It is proposed to your attention the Finnish Tank T-38-KV. 4 trophy tank T-38 in the summer of 1944 were converted to running models of the KV-1. On the chassis of the T-38 "put" the hull and turret silhouette is really reminiscent of Soviet...

In 1938 the French began to design a super-heavy tank FCM F1, weighing 140 tons! Armament consisted of 1 47-mm cannon in a small tower and the 90 - or 105-mm guns of high power in the main tower. Armor on forehead and the main body of the tower is 120mm board - 100mm. Wooden mock-up was ready in...

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If the project is "Lion" was quite realizable and was to replace the "King Tiger". In early 1942 at the same firm Krupp was born on a project that divides the honorary 1 st place under in category : madness design ) with a tank "Ratte" engineer Grote. This monster was supposed to weigh 1500...

Another project of the German "super heavy" tank It Pz. VII "Lowe" (Lion). This fighting machine in the design stage received index VK 7201 (K) Pz. VII "Lowe" was designed in two versions: "light version " - weighing 76 tons and armor-protected 100 mm and "Heavy" - weighing 90 tons and armored...