The videos depict Kaluga workers hand-crafting a gearbox for a gas-turbine tank engine—their first in 30 years. The goal, apparently, is to produce a new 1,500-horsepower turbine.

The AGT1500 gas turbine engine works by using an air inlet to draw in air. This air is then compressed, mixed with fuel, and combusted, creating a hot, fast-moving flow of gas.

The Soviet-era T-80 main battle tank, envisioned as a high-speed spearhead for a Cold War conflict in Europe, has suffered staggering losses in the war in Ukraine, particularly on the Russian side.

It's hard to imagine a car with a jet engine in it, but Chrysler spent a lot of time and money trying to make its turbine engine work for everyday drivers.

This time, instead of working on jet planes, Chrysler engineers used their turbine engine to create a tank, specifically the M1 Abrams. And this wasn't a case of a new team picking up where the ...

The M1 Abrams, weighing 72 tons, boasts a 1,500 horsepower gas turbine engine and can reach a speed of 42 miles per hour. The tank’s engine differs from those in European tanks, which typically ...

The engine can also run on gasoline or diesel (like the Leopard)—you just need to change the fuel filter. It has also been suggested that the M1A2 could not be used without extensive training ...

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The engine has also been upgraded, shifted from turbines to a diesel-electric system. It allows the tank to operate its internal systems without running an extremely loud turbine engine.

This is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War, and even into the earliest fringes of the 21st century. Of course, being ...