The year 1934 carried a project that documentation called the Amphibious Flying Tank. It stood out as an unconventional hovercraft tank concept. The design relied on two aircraft engines with a total displacement of 1450 liters. The plan was to lift the body about 200 to 250 millimeters from the ground and push the vehicle to speeds around 120 kilometers per hour.
A 1:4 scale mock-up was assembled at a Moscow aviation plant, but funding for the initiative dried up soon after. It seems the military did not back the project sufficiently, which likely prevented the construction of a formal prototype.
Mikhail Kolodochkin has spent many years collecting remarkable milestones from the history of technology. For instance, there was a purpose-built all-terrain vehicle from the 1960s that could both fly and swim at GAZ, illustrating the era’s appetite for amphibious capabilities.
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