Mikhail Kalashnikov doesn’t receive any royalties on his weapons designs, so to supplement his meagre state pension, he started a spirits concern, where he retains a chairmanship.
From the December 1939 issue of Amazing Stories and via one of my favorite blogs, Paleo-Future comes this illustration of an imagined ‘land battleship’.
See also in the PF archives: Gigantic Robots to Fight Our Battles and Nazi Paleo-Futurism.
Do you ever check out modern mechanix?
No, but it definitely it’s now in my ‘Archaic Futures’ feeds folder.