That concept art looks like something from Fallout, while the actual prototype looks like it was based on a child's drawing. Gotta love soviet engineering.
As fun as is it *is* to rag on the Soviets (and for many fantastic reasons), for the most part much of the Soviets tech was quite competently designed (the West didn't have a monopoly on skilled designers and engineers). The big letdowns came because of political meddling/cost cutting, scope creep and/or a lack of access to the proper built materials for the project.
Yeah and? Just because the politicians played silly buggers it still doesn't mean that the Soviets/Russians weren't capable of at least *designing* decent machines.
Nah, Soviet engineers deserve recognition. They had to work around low quality materials, shitty manufacturing processes and unreasonable design requirements dreamt up by incompetent politicians.
And yet the final design of the Buhanka still remains in production over 60 years later and keeps selling well despite all the free-market competition.
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