In our recent publications we’ve told about strange abandoned Russian trucks. Now we’ve learned more information about them and can even see how they run. During the Soviet times such military machinery was in strict secret and used only by the the Soviet space program.
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“Blue Bird” Сomplex was developed in the early 80s, on ZIL factory in the USSR. Its purpose was to search and help to the landing astronauts. It included freight vehicle ZIL-4906, ZIL-49061 Amphibious for passengers and auger wheel swamp and snowmobile ZIL-29061.
Amphibious ZIL-49061
Сross-country vehicle ZIL-29061.
ZIL-4972 (6х6) and ZIL-497200 (6х6), based on the Blue Bird alike chassis, were developed by Vezdehod-GVA together with ZIL factory at the beginning of the 90s. This is the pre-production video of ZIL-4972 (6х6).
ZIL-497200 (6х6)
ZIL-497206 (6х6)
ZIL-390613 (4х4) is the present-day off-road vehicle of high cross-country ability.
Roads? Not neccesary. Simply select the appropriate heading.
Even if you did use the roads, you wouldn’t have to worry about traffic!
What happened to Boris?
He’s been taken by CIA!
What happend to Sarah?
Who cares?
Oh come on, you loved her. We all did. Sarah, for President!
But imagine if we had to choose between Bush and Sarah. I know who I would rather see run my country.
-Well…… maybe not
he got a job?
Impressive espesially Zil 29061 , and who knows what album of Crimson they used ???
I don’t know, but that music in all the videos make my head hurt a little. Annoying.
I thought the music was the best part. I love King Crimson.
a) agreed, Peterm – the music surely IS annoying…
b) I don’t know what’s so special about the last one … the UNIMOG had the same abilities form the early 1950s on…
music ssssux
Watch it at http://www.zzgt.ru
ZIL 29061 mega tema!!!
“auger wheel”– interesting. I wonder if it proved to be inefficient or unstable, prone to breakdown, or somehow not worthwhile (otherwise we’d see more of them in use).
Music: certainly not the best King Crimson recordings– must be a more recent KC record.
Anyone notice how the ZIL-390613 looks alot like the awesome Mercedes-Benz Unimog?
To come back to the music by king krimson – does anybody really know which album it’s from?
For those who also wanna know, the song is called ‘masque 4′ from the ‘album projekct 3′.