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Feb 5, 2013

Retarded Russian projects part 3 - "Crusher"

Earlier: 
Retarded Russian projects part 1 - "Bezdechod"
Retarded Russian projects part 2 - "Broneistrebitel


Author: Yuri Pasholok
Original source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/148357.html
Translated by: Silentstalker
This weird tank destroyer project originates in Soviet Kazakhstan and is mentioned in a 1943 letter. It's special in one way - its author wasn't a technically uneducated cook, it was a technician and a designer, by the name of B.D.Lucenko! Let's have a look at how it was supposed to work:

 
Side and upper view
The original description says: "The tank destroyer has to be so heavy, so it could ram the enemy tank and crush it with its weight." Here's how it was supposed to look like:






SS: The author, who found this in the Soviet archives (Yuri Pasholok) is currently working on a whole book dedicated to the retarded, mad or simply desperate Soviet projects. The book is going to be called "Stalin's Steel Balls" - no sexual innuendo, it will deal with the concept of "rolling tanks", something the Soviets apparently came to like.

7 comments:

  1. hahaha, just beyond words...
    He was way ahead his time, and accidentally invented the monster trucks ;)

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  2. lol reminds me of those peace walker drones xD

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  3. every nation has so "retarded" projects.
    But this is very funny

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  4. These guys should have entered Robot Wars...

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  5. inb4 Duke Nukem joke

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  6. Well, the Russians understand the art of brawling.

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