Recreating Soviet Military Tanks

The sight of a 13,000-pound military tank headed your way might be anxiety inducing, but if Sergey Akimov is driving, you’ll be just fine. His life-size, drivable models shoot confetti instead of amo and are built out of reverence for Russian military history. Step inside the workshop where Sergey and friends continue to build mobile time machines that help others roll into the past.

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[marcl.]

I thought I was looking at a promotional video of World of Tanks lol

[siemprefijre]

USA: Build-A-Bear
Russia: Build-A-Tank

[MechanicWolf]

I love tiny tanks, there just so adorably nightmarish

[buster]

Not impressed until they make a Bob Semple.

[thesketchydude]

that MS-1 looks better than ANY of the "restorations" done to real ones...somebody for the love of god hire this man to fix Russian Museums

[alexcrown]

This is what Russians do in their free time

[unleashingpotential-psycho]

The history of these tanks are beautiful 🔥

[DefyDistrict]

im starting to think everyone in Russia is named sergey

[CybranM]

Another fantastic video! I assume the engines they use are new and not the original versions but I hope they use engines with the right horsepower for the tanks.

[matthewkabanuk]

I literally have been following these guys for well over two years and they make interesting stuff!!

[jeffreymuu]

It must feel so good knowing you built it whilst you’re driving it.

[komodonation]

For every 10 Russians born 1 is named Sergei

[herculean]

Been subscribed to them for a long time, I'm glad to see them get some coverage!

[ukzevkiiitonen]

0:26 The youtube's subtitles are really helpful

[TheGrenadier]

"Military tanks" are brothers of "naval ships"?

[Aninkovsky]

I'm pretty amazed that they didn't draft this tank into the frontline.😂

[idselseno]

Real friends be like :
Friend1 : hey let's build a tank! Bet will face so many trial and error.
Friend2 : let's do it!

[HyperK]

I want to do this now. I also want to see them make a t34 or Kv1!

[MadameMishka]

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I want to go to Russia just to meet these guys.

[kssar]

give this man more money and he is gonna build a functional kv-2