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DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transport (CAAT)

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Meet the 1/5 scale tester of the DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transport (CAAT). It’s designed to be a literally go anywhere vehicle that can provide relief supplies to disaster areas, kind of like the Gama Goat was intended to be. The difference here is that the CAAT seems to work way better being fast and unstoppable on land, water and everything in between. The BANGshift editor who posted this video thinks that “Captive Air” refers to the air trapped in the paddles of the treads. Seems to make sense to me. It’s one of those straight forward designs that makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before. It definitely adds another dimension to the Monster Tank story.


Source: DARPA tv on YouTube via BANGshift.com

Big Bud – The World’s Largest Farm Tractor

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Meet Big Bud. It’s a custom built farm tractor with a 900 horsepower 16 cylinder Detroit Diesel engine turning double 66 inch tall tires at each corner. Check out this video of Big Bud making anybody who’s ever done a tractor pull cry. It’s pulling two sleds daisy chained together AND another tractor sitting on one of the trailers. Big Bud just strolls all the way down the course LIKE A BOSS.


Source: Bangshift.com

I Never Knew There Were Monster Tanks

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I found some vintage Monster Truck competition footage that made my jaw drop. From what I can gather, the US Hot Rod Association was the sanctioning body in a monster truck racing series in the late 80’s. Two trucks would race head to head around identical course that included sharp turns and cars to crush. The craziest part was that there were a plethora of tracked vehicles that competed with the 4 wheeled traditional trucks. Here’s a compilation of some of the more famous ones:


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