Hammer, sickle & screw drivers…

German screw vehicle

Black SapperI was idly surfing through some Russian videos when I came across a rather splendid blog page looking at screw-thread vehicles developed by both the Soviet and German military. It all rather brings to mind Black Sapper, the “crooked genius who invented the Earthworm, against whose diamond-hard drills no bank vault was safe” (Gifford)…

But anyhow – some very interesting pics and videos of all manner of rather uncomfortable-looking metal monsters, go take a look 🙂

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