Talk:Vodnik (Russian military vehicle)

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Is the GAZ in the picture an unarmed variant, or just 'buttoned-up?' Replacing it with an example that has the machine gun deployed would help to add clarity.
 * Vodnik is a modular vehicle, it can be equipped for any situation on the battlefield. I am not exaggerating, this vehicle can take any role. The one in the picture is a simple transport variant which carries around equipment, food or mobile hospitals. Other versions with various turrets, sensors such as FLIR, radar or a wide band RF scanners are available. They can be equipped to be CBR safe. 99.236.221.124 (talk) 17:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Naming explanation is wrong. "Vod" means water, "nyik" generaly means "the one who deals with smth." -- so Vodnyik means "the one who deals with water". Compare to "Sportsmen vodnyik" -- a (professional) water sports sportsman (nothing like car/van). "Pozharnyik": "Pozhar" -- fire, "nyik" -- "the one who deals with smth", results in "people trained to extinguish fires" (as Oxford Dictionary explains). "Lesnyik": the one who deals with forests.


 * I speak a little Russian - enough to understand the meaning of the word though not to fully explain it. Nevertheless I've done my best; as you say, to suggest that "ник" means "car" is entirely wrong. PeteVerdon 22:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Can Vodnik be translated as Aquarius?
 * Yes, I think this it more sutable translation. The "Waterman", as how it reads now, is the best one.
 * Nevertheless current reference to Slavic mythology seems out of era: at the time such vehicles were designed and built it seems unlikely to call something after mythological subjects.
 * "Aquarius" (the sign) in Russian is "Водолей." The mythology reference seems completely reasonable. A lot of Russian equipment has been given seemingly random names. For example, artillery systems sometimes have flower names, like 2S1 "Carnation" (Гвоздика), 2S7 "Peony" (Пион), or 2S5 "Hyacinth" (Гиацинт). I guess those designations aren't technically descriptive. 67.42.51.106 (talk) 07:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Just FYI, the majority of this article is a copy of this post from the Military Equipments blog (maybe a third of the way down the page), and should be rewritten and cited (unless of course the blog copied it from here - or somewhere else :) ). And before Sergei's edit was even more so. I'm not the guy for this, not an expert at all, just noticed because I was searching for GAZ pics. 96.238.148.17 (talk) 02:30, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I re-wrote it a bit further, maybe this is enough. More added information would be appreciated. Sergei Gutnikov (talk) 12:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Amphibious capabilities?
In the article, it says that the vehicle does not float and has no facility for propelling itself through the water. However, I've found many sources (including videos and photographs) that clearly show an operational propeller duct system. A lot of the source material is in Russian, though, and machine translation can't help with audio. Can anyone clear this up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dziban303 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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Replaced Picture with armed variant (File:Vodnik ky.jpg) per Talk Page request--Degen Earthfast (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

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