military vehicles are the entire vehicles used by the military for its daily or routine combat and
non-combat activities it's known that the dynamics of battle can be greatly changed
through the various kinds of a vehicle the military adopts hence the military commits
a huge chunk of its budget into acquiring the best and most appropriate vehicles available
vehicles used by the military are built to be very tough with the ability to withstand
varying harsh conditions and terrain synonymous with battlefields some of these vehicles include
armored trucks armored fighting vehicles helicopters fighter jets ambulances and so on
in this video we will take a look at the top weirdest military vehicles you may not know
the bvs10 the land system haglands of sweden which is a subsidiary british bae systems built
an all-terrain armored vehicle called bvs10 and aesthetically it's one of the strangest
military vehicles we've seen around the bvs10 is fully amphibious and distinctively has a twin cab
the front cab can take five crew members which include the driver while the rear cab can take
up to eight crew members it's powered by a 5.9 liter turbocharged diesel engine the vespa 150 tap
yes it's a scooter to be precise it's a 146 cc single cylinder two-stroke engine
powered vespa scooter modified in the 1950s by the french into an anti-tank
also called the bazooka vespa the 150 tap is mounted with a us-made m20
75-millimeter recoil-less rifle capable of penetrating 100 millimeters of armor
powered by a two-man team the french paratroops used
this weaponized scooter to a devastating effect
antonov a40 flying tank the soviet forces tried all that came to their mind in terms
of battle weapon innovation the antonov a40 for its failure became a strange invention
otherwise it could have been a game-changing combat vehicle if it
fulfilled its aim of being a tank that glides into a battlefield from the sky
only one unit of the antonov a40 was ever built as the project was abandoned for being impractical
vz-9 avrocar
military peristatals all over the world often carry out secret projects in a bid
to outwit their adversaries using the element of surprise the avro canada vz-9 avro car was
one of such secret projects by the us that commenced at the beginning of the cold war
the project aimed to build a high-speed fighting aircraft
however it was canceled due to unresolved thrust and stability issues
the flying bedstead could not take off or land
does this look like a mechanical spider to you unless you have arachnophobia which is
a total and paralyzing fear of spiders spider-man included then no this is not something very scary
especially when we tell you that this was the earliest attempt of a vtol aircraft
one that could do vertical takeoffs and landing this one couldn't even do that with stability
google panzer
world war ii saw the introduction and deployment of some of the most bizarre military vehicles and
weapons to the battlefield and the spherical tank called the kugelpanzer was one of them
the japanese kuntung army is documented to have used the kugelpanzer however this one-man tank
was built by the germans the kugelpanzer was later captured in manchuria by the soviets
tsar tank the tsar tank is considered to be the largest armored vehicle in history
built by a team of russian military engineers civilian engineers and civilian scientists in
1914 tsar tank was constructed with a tricycle design featuring two huge front wheels
and a small rear wheel each powered by a 250 hp sunbeam engine the project later became known as
a monumental example of engineering design failure and was abandoned at its test site
schwerer gustav while preparing for the battle of france during the second world war the germans
knew they had to devise a means of breaking through the maganat line a concrete fortification
barrier and weapon installation constructed by the french hence they built the schwerer gustav
the gustav was an 80 centimeter german railway gun considered to be the biggest gun ever built
schwerer gustav was destroyed in 1945 to prevent u.s troops from capturing it
the ecrana plan the ekrano plan is a ground effect vehicle that was in operation from 1987
to the late 1990s operated solely by the soviet and russian natives the ekranoplan uses its fixed
wings to generate a lift at top speed on water due to a phenomenon called the ground effect
only two of these vehicles were ever built with the second ekrano plan abandoned at
ninety percent completion due to lack of funds the zil-2902 screw-driven vehicle
cosmonauts often land in terrains that made the recovery difficult hence the russians
through the zil vehicle manufacturing company built the zil-2906 for their easy recovery this
screw-propelled vehicle is amphibious hence it can be driven on water swamp and snow it has a maximum
speed of 9.9 miles per hour on water 12 miles per hour in the swamp and 28 miles per hour on snow
big dog big dog was a 2005 military robot built by the collaboration of boston dynamics
foster miller and the harvard university concord field station this dynamically stable quadruped
robot was created solely with the aim of it helping soldiers carry their heavy gears and
terrains too rough for wheels big dog is 2.5 feet tall 3 feet long and weighs 240 pounds however
the project was discontinued in 2015 as it was considered too noisy for combat
cybernetic anthropomorphous machine cam the walking truck before the boston dynamics big
dog came the ge made cam known as the cybernetic anthropomorphous machine
the walking truck or the pedipulator this was supposed to be used as a moonwalker as well
sadly it did not prove practical at the time as it needed an
operator sitting inside and had a top speed of 5 miles per hour