What Soviet technology is the most passable? Surprisingly, most people answer "Niva". And when creating the VAZ-2121, the task was not to make an SUV. It's just an off-road vehicle. Soviet engineers took up the project so zealously that the car turned out to be legendary. The first crossover in the world, is still being produced, there are many fan clubs ... The second one is the UAZ of the average model. And if not limited to cars? Moreover, in the USSR there are few of them, off-road? Then they call GAZ-66, ZIL-131 or 157 and Ural. It is not entirely clear whether the latter refers to gasoline or diesel. They also remember KrAZ, the one that "Laptezhnik".
But in the USSR they produced specialized equipment not for roads at all. These are caterpillar all-terrain vehicles of different models. They are able to work in the most severe conditions - it is not for nothing that geologists and oilmen loved such machines, and even now they favor them. It is generally accepted that a serial factory SUV is inferior to a home-made one. Is this the case for tracked vehicles? It seems that Soviet engineers in this industry were doing the ideal. Of course, for its time and taking into account the availability of units of those years. The authors of the Polygon-98 channel decided to test tracked vehicles in the swamp. One of the machines is factory, and the second is homemade. Who will be better - see for yourself.
The issue of building a bridge to Sakhalin was returned at the highest level
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