Kharkiv V-2: The Soviet Tank Engine That Refused to Go Out of Style for Eight Decades
29 Nov 2023, 22:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War, and even into the 21st century.
The Tupolev A-3 Aerosledge Is a Cool-Looking Soviet-Era Ground Effect Vehicle
8 Oct 2023, 15:40 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / The A-3 Aerosledge was a versatile vehicle capable of navigating snow, water, and ice. It was used to transport passengers and light freight to remote areas
This 2JZ-Swapped Lada Riva is Japanese Precision Wrapped in a Funny Soviet Suit
25 Sep 2023, 16:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Safe to say, the three-liter Toyota 2JZ-GTE straight six under the hood of this restomod Lada blows anything it could have had stock out of the water.
Sukhoi Su-15: A Soviet Interceptor Defined by One Tragic Shootdown
26 Aug 2023, 15:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Sukhoi Su-15, the twin-engine Soviet interceptor defined by Korean Air Lines Flight 007. But there's more to it than just that.
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.
Ilyushin Il-20: What Happens When the Soviets Try To Build a Tank With Wings
24 May 2023, 07:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / But what happens when a Soviet aviation bureau tries to build a flying tank? You get the Ilyushin Il-20, essentially the familiar Il-2/10 with extra armor
PZL M-15 Belphegor: The Remarkable Story of the World's Only Jet Engine Crop Duster
30 Apr 2023, 02:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why a Polish firm would even try fitting a turbofan engine inside a crop duster, we need to understand what living in Poland was like in the 70s.
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
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber
21 Feb 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? An airliner fashioned out of the same airframe as a nuclear-capable bomber? That's the most Soviet thing we've heard in a long time
This Long Dead Russian Carmaker Just Returned From the Crypt, Here's Its Bizarre Story
24 Nov 2022, 06:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Moskvitch brand has returned after two decades, doing so with the Moskvitch 3 crossover SUV reported to be built with a great deal of assistance from China
Lavochkin La-15: The MiG 15's Long Forgotten Step Sibling Came Back to Life in War Thunder
24 Oct 2022, 21:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From 1953 on, the La-15 faded into obscurity. With only a handful of surviving airframes parked in museums across the former Soviet Union.
ZIS-6: The Original Soviet Truck Platform For the BM-13 Katyusha "Stalin's Organ"
14 Oct 2022, 04:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When the Katyusha rocket system was first deployed in battle, it rolled in one of these, the ZIS-6. This is the story of that truck
It’s a Boat, It’s a Plane, No, It’s an Abandoned Russian Sea Monster
17 Sep 2022, 14:48 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Back in the infamous Cold War, the Soviet Union were going at it with the U.S. in the Arms Race. That gave birth to war machines like the Caspian Sea Monster
Man Buys Rare Soviet Chaika Ambulance, Restores It to Previous Glory
19 Dec 2014, 14:05 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A vehicle one step down from the ZIL limousine, the Chaika is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union created by GAZ. As limousine-class car, these were available only to the Soviet government and...