Craziest Soviet Machines You Won't Believe Exist - Part 1

Part 2 here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZVOJrhuHY

"once every 5 minutes" i mean, one atomic shell shot out a giant sewer pipe with treads destroying entire battlefields is quite good every 5 minutes.

Timestamps! The 2B1 OKA- 0:43 The 1K17 Szhatie-2:39 The Zveno Project- 4:32 The Antonov A-40- 6:10 The MIL MI-10- 7:46 The K-84 Ekaterinburg- 9:08 The M-15 Belphegor- 11:05 The Lun-Class Ekranoplan- 12:40 Project Ekip- 14:33 The Bartini Beriev VVA-14- 16:27 The ZVM-2901- 18:12 The Kalinin K7- 19:42 The TSAR Tank- 21:22 The Evolution of MAZ Trucks - 22:58 - [ Minsk Auto Zavod 23:05 - MAZ-529 23:22 - MAZ-535 23:38 - MAZ-543 24:02 - MAZ-547 24:29 - MAZ-7904 24:49 - MAZ-7907 25:15 ] I am sorry if i missed anything, i also tried to get every MAZ Evolution truck in the last few timestamps.

Fun fact, the military MAZ trucks are so reliable and good at transporting extreme loads through the hostile, muddy Siberian wilderness that they are still widely used as foresting vehicles.

I love Soviet engineering. The created wonderful, crazy, brilliant equipment.

That's what I love about the Soviets: If you can imagine it, then you can build it. Nothing is too much far-fetched

If there is one thing about the Russians that can't be denied, it is the fact they are a creative and resourceful people.

The "flying Circus" evolved into in air refueling and drone-swarms, launched and controlled by a single fighter. The US army loves this kind of stuff.

Engineer: How long do you want the barrel to be on the 2B1-OKA? Soviet Government: Y E S

Could only fire once every 5 minutes.. Because with an atomic warhead the first round is just a warning 😂

Fun fact about the ekranoplan, it only used the 8 engines to get up to hovering speed, by which point only two of them were needed to keep it moving. It also hovered 4 meters (13 ft) above the water's surface, not inches.

That ekranoplan is a genius idea. Undetectable by radar or sonar, it would've been a nightmare. Could've revolutionized the amphibious transport.

For the 2B1 Oka, the 2B1 Oka it's 420mm gun can also be replaced with a 406 mm gun that can fire. As for the Zvena Project, the Bomber used in the project is the (quite obsolete at the time) Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber, the TB-3 is actually meant for strategic Bombing, btw, the TB-3 also carried the AN-40 which was FAR too heavy for the TB-3 to carry

It appears that with the collapse of soviet Russia we missed out on extraordinary innovation and technology.

The long legged helicopter is quite similar to the Sikorsky CH-54/CH-64 Tahre/Skycrane. Between WW1 and WW2 Britain and German also considered building large multi-turreted tanks.

Super interesting. These MAZ (the "smaller" ones) trucks look practical. After a refresh of the design, these can even sell today. Not only to the military.

The AN-2 has a radial piston engine, not a turboprop. It's reliable old school powerplant is the main reason why the bi-plane is still in widespread use, even with several air forces today. Especially in harsh, cold regions the AN-2 can still be operated fine and failures are easily fixable.

"Its too expensive" say the american engineer. "Its too big and heavy" say the japanese engineer. "Its too inefficient" say the german engineer. "For when you want it?" say the soviet engineer.

The crazier thing was the mass popularity of technics, machinery and engineering in society in 1900-1970s. Magazines like Popular Mechanics were actually quite, well, popular in Soviet Union. And the Unoin published its own analogical magazines too. And it was just a part of a social ssytem which also included technical-oriented child clubs, youth societies, practical sections and home enthusiasts communities, educational materials, do-it-yourself kits, tech propaganda in literature, cartoons, movies, newspapers, and much more. Nothing like this is to be seen since. Not even the "self-success" or "obey and survive" propaganda is that impressive.

Soviet Union was the place where all engineers build random but incredible machines