10 Powerful Photos Of Crazy Powerful Machinery

Powerful photos don't have to move you to tears; they can also move your pants.

1. The Buffalo

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The Buffalo Mine Protected Vehicle. Thanks to a V-shaped hull this beast can survive direct mine explosions and still protect occupants inside.

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The Buffalo is the U.S. Military's go-to for land mine/IED search teams.

2. The Spruce Goose

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Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose", or Hercules H-4, is one of the craziest aircraft to ever exist. Using 8 engines to get airborne and topping five stories high she only flew once, but that was probably enough.

3. The Soviet Kalinin K7

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Believe it or not that's an airplane. The Kalinin K7 was designed to pack a mean punch while carrying a ton of troops and generally pissing off enemies. The "plane" was as tall as the Empire State Building if on it's side. Oh yeah, this thing flew a few times and then crashed, scrapping the project.

4. The Knock Nevis

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The Knock Nevis is considered the largest ship ever build as well as the largest self-propelled man made object in history. Read that again. We've made some pretty huge things, and this ship was bigger than all of them.

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Just to give you an idea of the size of the size of this behemoth.

5. The Dornier Do X

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The Dornier Do X was the largest, most powerful flying ship ever when it was completed in 1929. It took 12 V12 engines mounted front and back to get this 56 ton ship into the air.

6. Bagger 288

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The largest digging machine on the planet, the Bagger 288, located in Germany, can move 76,000 cubic meters of earth, or a football field 98 feet deep, per day. While not actually a Transformer, this enormous digger can actually drive itself places (which it did once it ate it's first mine).

7. Komatsu Super Bulldozer

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The Komatsu Super Bulldozer, at 16 feet tall, 41 feet long and 24 feet wide basically laughs at all other bulldozers and then plows through anything that exists. C'mon, it's got "super" in the name; there's no way this thing isn't ridiculous.

8. The Saturn V Rocket

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The Saturn V Rocket is the most powerful rocket to have ever been built. Presumably, during the race to the moon, the President said "make it really, really, really, really big", and Warner Von Braun did just that. If this thing had exploded on the launchpad it would've equaled a two kiloton nuclear bomb (that's a lot). We won that race.

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The Caterpillar 797f boasts a 4000 horsepower, V20 engine, weighs 1,375,000 pounds, and can even hit 42mph. The Cat 797f, which may have inspired all Tonka Truck designers and little boys around the world, is the largest truck in the world. Just for a size comparison, check the next photo.

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10. M1 Abrams Tank

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Let's end this on an America note, shall we? The M1 Abrams tank - widely believed to be the most powerful tank around - uses a 1500 horsepower gas turbine engine that runs on jet fuel to strike fear into basically anything. This monster can hit speed of 35mph and has more guns than most gun stores. The M1 has been in use since 1980 and the US only plans to improve upon the model. America.