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title: "17 insane Russian military inventions"
date: "2018-03-31"
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# 17 insane Russian military inventions

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Russian military inventions tend toward the brutally practical: tanks, planes, and guns that are cheap and easy to produce. But they were also known for experimenting with wacky, expensive concepts. Here are some of their crazier inventions:

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