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[AutomataKittay]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-propelled_vehicle



It seems like good idea for swamps or snowy area, though! Whenever there're vehicles implemented.

Not good for much else, though...
#7 is a pretty good explainer of big problems with corkscrew-based vehicles.

...Did it at least have a convertible top?

How did you guess. They included a plastic top to keep out the rain.

Lucky, I guess.
Not the craziest Russian military vehicle I've heard of. Right below the corkscrew tank in the above link is another Russian tank which had two huge wheels that made great targets and two really puny wheels. Why?

Yeah, those are pretty specialist vehicle, that's why there've never been many successful corkscrew driven vehicles. They're pretty much limited to marsh and probably frozen terrains.

As for the Tsar Tank? That was way back in WW1, where they thought that trench-crossing capacity was more important and nobody was sure how mechanized warfare would fare. I don't think it ever actually got into a battle once it was tested out and everyone figured out it wouldn't do well.

Other countries didn't do well with trench-crossing tanks either, that's why the britain ones had huge treads on outside of them

[Jetman123]

I must have been thinking of one of Russia's other airborne aircraft carriers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7 This perhaps?

[peskyninja]

IIRC NASA had some projects to send a "corckscrew" veichle to the moon because they didn't know how deep or what consistency the lunar soil had. It moved just like a giant drill.


also see this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle for more crazy russian "planes".

[GreatWyrmGold]

I must have been thinking of one of Russia's other airborne aircraft carriers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7 This perhaps?

Probably. That looks right.

IIRC NASA had some projects to send a "corckscrew" veichle to the moon because they didn't know how deep or what consistency the lunar soil had. It moved just like a giant drill.

"Had." There's a reason for that.

also see this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle for more crazy russian "planes"

Amusing.

[10ebbor10]

The N-1 was pretty crazy too.  30 engines on the first stage alone is a bit insane.

Also, it caused the largest non nuclear explosion in the history of mankind, and pretty much killed a large part of the Russian lunar program. (Many important engineers were near the launchpad when the explosion happened.)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Speaking of big explosions: the Tzar Bomb.
Especially the original design.

[Jetman123]

Speaking of big explosions: the Tzar Bomb.
Especially the original design.

"It was also referred to as Kuz'kina Mat' (Russian: Кузькина мать, Kuzka's mother), potentially referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a "Kuz'kina Mat'" at the 1960 United Nations General Assembly. The famous Russian idiom, which has been problematic for translators, equates roughly with the English “We’ll show you!” in this usage meaning "something that has not been seen before"."

Trust the Soviets to build a massive bomb purely to wave their dicks at their opponents.

[peskyninja]

Speaking of big explosions: the Tzar Bomb.
Especially the original design.

Did I hear "Large explosions"?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wow.
Do the Russians make ANYTHING small?

[Jetman123]

Wow.
Do the Russians make ANYTHING small?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedoskino_miniature ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll ?

[GreatWyrmGold]

The paintings, yes, but the outermost Matryoshkas can be pretty big...
Good point, though. It's two handicrafts versus the most notable of Russian vehicles, though. Russia's the Texas of Eurasia.

[AutomataKittay]

The paintings, yes, but the outermost Matryoshkas can be pretty big...
Good point, though. It's two handicrafts versus the most notable of Russian vehicles, though. Russia's the Texas of Eurasia.

Well, when even the old RPG-7 can be equipped with something FAE-like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric#Soviet_and_Russian_developments

( The actual usage don't seems to be that common, but still )

[Jetman123]

The paintings, yes, but the outermost Matryoshkas can be pretty big...
Good point, though. It's two handicrafts versus the most notable of Russian vehicles, though. Russia's the Texas of Eurasia.

Given that those two were the only thing I could even find (and that was the humor I was going for), it pretty much just reinforces your point to begin with.

[goblolo]

Conveyor belts seem more useful than screws for horizontal transport, yes. Can we get back to crazy Russian inventions?

look at this howitzer!

and ofc. crazy Luftwaffe!