This is the Largest "Sedan" ever constructed weighing in at over 28 Tons... The MA3-541 Aircraft Tug!

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OgdenDermstead@reddit

Queue all the jokes about "still lighter than the G90 M5!!!" dahur-hur...

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L3sh1y@reddit

At 28 tons and those FAT tires, I think it would rather roll up the tarmac like a carpet underneath it

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HuskerDont241@reddit

Only with plenty of glycol on the ground.

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Fitmature1@reddit

I'm impressed/surprised that they built something for the guys that had an enclosed cab and heat (taking for granted that it did?)

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Actual-Money7868@reddit

28 tons ? Is it made from lead and tungsten ?

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Only 3 of these massive "sedans" were ever constructed.. and were used in airports beginning in the 1950's up until the 1970's. Unfortunately there are no known surviving examples..hopefully one will turn up in a Russian forest one day..

I think my favorite feature of this vehicle are the dual driver's seats that face opposite directions... one for reverse and one for driving forward!

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Frankie_T9000@reddit

Its so not a sedan though, its an airport tug that looks vaguely like a normal car

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P1xelHunter78@reddit

Came here to say this. It is however a “weird” airport tug I’ll give it that.

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L3sh1y@reddit

Damn bro, nice find, thats what I really love this sub for! Now I only need to find a remaining one and take it drag racing, I mean, the wheel layout is already there, just lose some weight and add a (few) superchargers...

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deVoStyle74@reddit

Visually a beautiful copy and gramma's car pulling it. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/professor-unmasks-russian-spy-who-stole-secrets-concorde

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jombrowski@reddit

It's not MA3, it's MAZ

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NewtsAhoy@reddit

I know it isn’t, but it looks like an AI creation. Especially the front end.

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Seajhay@reddit

For that Retro Aliens Movie - APC Troop Transport!!

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The-MDA-Challenge@reddit

u/snowrunner

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Annhl8rX@reddit

I want one.

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Farfignugen42@reddit

This was the tug in the pic of the Russian rip off of the Concorde posted yesterday or Sunday.

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YorockPaperScissors@reddit

This is top notch content

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DMala@reddit

The fairings on those giant-ass rear wheels seem like they'd make service a lot harder. It must have take a couple of skid loaders and maybe a crane just to get the wheels off.

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Drzhivago138@reddit

This is how they used to draw American sedans in the ads, before they switched to photos that had to accurately portray the car's size.

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hugesteamingpile@reddit

See Bruce McCall’s illustrations.

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thejesterofdarkness@reddit

IRL Canyonero

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felixar90@reddit

Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, thirty-eight tons of American pride.

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nlpnt@reddit

Between this, the Zaporozhets from Ukraine and the RAF vans from Latvia, all the most interesting Soviet cars came from not-Russia.

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GreggAlan@reddit

Comradero

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JoeAvamist@reddit

Aunt fanny? Is that you?

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Main_Force_Patrol@reddit

Looks like something from fallout.

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-Dys-@reddit

Or 5th element

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Neither_Compote8655@reddit

Why does that airplane have a bent nose in image 4?

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Mattloch42@reddit

Russian version of the Concorde, the Tu-144. A disaster of a plane.

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GadFlyBy@reddit

Just followed your link to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_Tu-144_crash

Just imagine you're some random Pierre taking your four-hour work break, enjoying a café au lait and bites of a warm baguette crammed with brie, in between deep inhalations of a Galoises, and the next thing you know . . .

. . . a piece of Soviet pig-iron fashioned into a canard flattens you au sol.

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Mattloch42@reddit

🤷‍♂️ It was the Cold War

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BadWolfRU@reddit

droop nose, so the nose of the aircraft can be lowered during takeoff and landing to improve the pilot's view of the ground below.

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Cunt_Eastwood_10@reddit

I see a Concordski!

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TMC_61@reddit

I call shotgun. Yeah me too. Yea and me too. And me too.

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Strange_Dot8345@reddit

looks like despite its size its really cramped in her

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BadWolfRU@reddit

It`s seems compact, but it was 2.8 meters tall and 3.5 meters wide, but anyway - 2 seats inside, each with it`s own wheel and control panel. Some sources claimed that it was made for convinience (so driver could choose which side seat he need at the moment), another sources said that one was for mowing forward, second for rewersing (to crawl under the aircraft for docking)

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mini4x@reddit

I've seen newer garbage trucks like that with standing cabs, pretty neat design

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mini4x@reddit

I don't understand why we are calling this a sedan?

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Material-Indication1@reddit

Pic three, in Jim Backus voice:

"what is that dastardly plane doing to my vehicle?"

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

Very cool! I find the TU-144 really interesting... I love the one that was just sitting in someones backyard for all those years!

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