California Officials Explain Why Gas Prices Went Up
23 Sep 2023, 13:25 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / Filling up is expensive in California and the neighboring states. People were righteously upset about it. Now, we are provided with the answers
Ukraine Might Never Get the A-10 Warthog, But the Renderings are Still Awesome
28 Aug 2023, 22:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Thanks to the DCS World community, a player by the name of Alex Horest gave us a first-hand glimpse of what the Warthog would look like in Ukrainian service.
Timbeeer! Log-Frame Car Is the Most Russian Thing You'll See Today Because 'Hold My Vodka'
23 Aug 2023, 10:36 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A bunch of YouTuber mechanics makes a running, driving automobile on a wooden frame, in the forest, in 24 hours, then take it out for a spin
Russia Is Marketing the T-14 Armata MBT to Foreign Markets, Will Anyone Bite?
20 Aug 2023, 20:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Plenty of countries outside of Russia's physical sphere of influence have employed their tanks, aircraft, and other weapons in the past. Most notably, India.
Japan Extends Car Export Ban to Russia, No More Luxury Cars
30 Jul 2023, 21:10 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / Japan has just decided to extend the car export ban to the country that attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and thought would take Kyiv down in three days
Here Are Three Hot Takes on the Sukhoi Su-57, One Might Surprise You
25 Jul 2023, 14:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, let's have some fun with a few hot takes about the Su-57. As it turns out, the only felony this jet's committed is theft of our attention.
Mikoyan MiG 1.44: The Certified-Soviet Story of Russia’s First Gen-V Fighter Prototype
21 Jul 2023, 03:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / he sole MiG 1.44 was only seen a handful of times again after the year 2000, the last being at the International Aviation and Space Show (MAKS) in 2015.
Missed an Oil Change, and the Engine Smokes? Pressure-Wash It, and It's Better Than New
10 Jul 2023, 14:06 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian piston nerds clean a filthy engine with nothing but water, and the results are beyond belief; it shows that water in the engine can be a good thing
Best Spark Fluid: Water or Gasoline? Russian Ghetto "Scientists" Have the Answer
5 Jul 2023, 20:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Siberian piston heads wonder what happens if standard wiring for the ignition system is swapped with liquid-filled tubing; science doesn’t flinch
Straight Outta Russia: Old Lada Sedan Gains Square Sliding Front Wheels Because Why Not?
25 Jun 2023, 09:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian mechanics build motionless square wheels, put them on a car, and take it for a spin; sometimes physics isn’t enough to repel out-of-the-box engineering
Russian Vlogger-Mechanics Smelt Cans and Forks for Pistons; Engine Destruction Is Swift
17 Jun 2023, 21:33 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A Siberian team of automotive YouTubers tried their hands at homemade aluminum pistons; the test-drive session is short, fragmented, and predictable
Cast Iron Skillet Discs Are Perfect for Smoking Car Brakes – And These Russians Prove It
28 May 2023, 13:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of mechanics from Siberia with an appetite for crazy motoring experiments made brake discs out of cookware, but it didn’t end well
UAC: How Russia Frankensteined Its Aviation Sector into a Single Massive Company
28 May 2023, 02:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For all their innumerable humanitarian transgressions, the Soviets managed to field some of the most skilled and ambitious aerospace firms in the world.
Zaporizhzhia: The Full Story of the Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Besieged by Russia
23 May 2023, 03:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia are two reactor facilities joined at the hip not only by country, but by bloody warfare as well
Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate: Russia’s Own F-35 Rival or Kremlin Vaporware?
14 May 2023, 01:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / what do you think? Will the Su-75 even make it off the ground at all? Or is it destined to remain a mock-up due to a lack of cash?
Imagined Russian Angara Rocket Lifts Off for the First Time From Vostochny Cosmodrome
8 May 2023, 09:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animation specialist Hazegrayart gives us a glimpse of the new Russian Angara rocket taking off from its designated launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome
A-10 vs T-14 Armata: Can America's Favorite Attack Plane Destroy the New Russian MBT?
1 May 2023, 22:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Both the A-10 and the T-14's abilities are so often subject to hyperbole and exaggeration. But what would happen if they faced off against each other?
Turkey's First Commercial Nuclear Reactor is Packed With Russian DNA, Will Soon Go Online
29 Apr 2023, 08:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the first fission reactor complex at this novel facility just received its first batch of uranium fuel.
Can You Start a Car With AA Batteries? Yes, You Can – If You and the Car Are From Russia
9 Apr 2023, 20:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / “How many 1.5-volt standard batteries does it take to get an inline-four running?” The question has riddled Planet Piston since never; now Russia has the answer
Road of Bones: How Forced Labor Built the Soviet Idea of a Federal Highway
27 Mar 2023, 23:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The story of Russia's "road of bones" casts a focal point on the brutality of the Stalin-era Soviet regime with cars and trucks as the focal point