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The Russian Hummer – BRDM2 on Streets of Ukraine

spanic — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:48:08 +0000

Some guy in Ukraine bought himself this BRDM-2 for “hunting” as he says. What’s a BRDM-2? It is an amphibious armored vehicle used by Russia and former Soviet Union which was a replacement for the previous BRDM-1 armored vehicle model.

Some specs:

Weight 7.7 tonnes

Crew 4 (driver, co-driver, commander, gunner)

Engine GAZ-41 gasoline V-8
140 hp (104 kW) at 3400 rpm

Speed 100 km/h (road)
10 km/h (water)

GAZ MM 1942 Reconstructed

A bit too much…

spanic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:32:53 +0000

This 600 ton truck got overloaded and collapsed under it’s own weight while going down a hill.

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GAZ MM 1942 Reconstructed

spanic — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:08:41 +0000

This all started two years ago when the reconstruction team “Red Viburnum” from Poland found an old chassis from a GAZ MM 1942 in the junkyard. They decided that it would be a good idea to reconstruct the truck but sadly they were missing most of the original parts. After some searching, they found an old engine and a few other parts in old tractors and other vehicles since the people were disassembling the broken cars and using the parts from them in their own vehicles after the war ended. In the end, this car was reconstructed mostly with it’s original parts but some had to be made manually.