Here are the pictures, as well as a (Russian) video of World’s largest military hovercraft, called Zubr (bison). The Zubr air-cushion landing craft is intended to carry out over-the-beach landings of amphibious landing troops and combat vehicles, as well as provide fire support of their actions on shore.
The ship provides sea lift of materiel consisting of:
- 3 tanks of total mass up to 150 tons;
- or 10 armored vehicles of total mass up to 131 tons;
- or 8 armored personnel carriers of total mass up to 115 tons;
- or 8 amphibious tanks.
To accommodate troops, carried in vehicles there are 4 compartments with 140 seats.
As an option, the combat material compartment can be fitted with removable benches for additional accommodation of 360 troops (altogether 500 persons).
Unfortunately, Russia no longer holds a title for the weirdest looking limo design, from now Ukraine has it…
You have already seen the Russian President’s Airplane, now here is the Russia President’s boat…
Here are pictures from a Russian Shipyard, in case you always wondered what one looks like…
Nuclear Icebreakers were built in order to make passage of ships near the Arctic shores possible. Russia had built 10 nuclear icebreakers, three of which are retired now “Lenin” “Sibir” and “Antarktika”. The brand new “50 years since Victory” which was ironically completed late in 2007 - after the 60 years since the WW2 Victory, is currently the biggest nuclear icebreaker in the world. I’m also including a video from the Nuclear Icebreaker “Russia”, enjoy…
We had already shown you a big foot based on the GAZ Gazel car here, now it’s a bigfoot which is based on OKA, one of the smallest cars on the Russian market which is still being produced today…
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Soviet’s Tsar Bomb was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. It was detonated at 4000 m altitude the 30th of October 1961 at Mityushikha Bay test range, Novaya Zemlya Island. It had a yield of 50 Megatons. It contained equivalent of 58 million tons of TNT or 10 times the number of all explosives used in WWII…
Turns out that the Weird Commercial of VAZ-2109 car we have shown couple of days ago was only the beginning. Way back from last year we already have shown you a video of VAZ-2108 still driving under its own power after a mega crash, now here is another video of VAZ-21099 (that’s a sedan/saloon model) driving down the public road while missing a side…
Tupolev Tu-95 is a Russian long range strategic bomber and missile carrier which was build by Soviet Union during the Cold War. Making its first flight in 1952 it’s expected to stay in Russian Air Force service until 2040! Here is a report about it…
From the author of this gallery here, we now have more. Here are pictures from Kostroma and beautiful vintage houses there. Enjoy…
This is the Russia’s Presidential airplane IL96-300, while many have seen the plane itself, the images of the interior are quite rare. Russia had spent $40 million out of the budget to modify the interior of the plane, lets see what they got for their money…
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Here are the Pictures and a video of different Soviet Union Parades. For the number of years now, the most you could see during the anual May 9th Victory parade were the fighter jets flying over the Red Square. Interestingly enough for this year’s Victory parade, sources in the Russian Ministry of defense say they plan to do a full military display with artillery pieces as well as intercontinental missiles (Lenta.ru), i guess we’ll have to wait and see…
© Marc Garanger/Scanpix 1967.
Sevastopol which now serves as a Ukrainian naval base, used to be a strategic naval base for the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. In the early 1950’s Joseph Stalin himself had ordered to build this underground submarine base inside a mountain. In 1961 the building of this secret base (which was designed to withstand direct nuclear bombardment) was finally completed so it could enter the service. Inside, this base had a command post, dry docks, repair facilities and a channel which let submarines go from the bay into the Black sea in both the surface as well as the underwater mode…
