Foreign Object Debris (or FOD) is a huge problem on aircraft carriers. A metallic button from a shirt or a single nut could destroy a million dollar engine and endanger the lives of an aircrew. America's solution? FOD walks and sweeper carts. Russia’s solution? Taking an old MiG-15's jet engine, slapping on a planar diffuser, and strapping it to a tractor.

I doubt such a contraption can compare to a good FOD walk, where the carrier's deck crew and other available hands scour the flight deck one step at a time (above), or the little sweeper carts the US Navy uses (below), but it sure does look cool and it probably even sounds cooler!

The engine shown in the pictures – taken aboard the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov – appears to be a Klimov VK-1, which is actually a knockoff of the . The Nene was used in many early jet aircraft applications, both in Britain and North America. On this side of the world, the Nene was license built by Pratt & Whitney and labeled the J42. Copies of this engine are and even in a small handful of air forces that still fly the MiG-15,

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Main photo via twitter/RussianNavyBlog, Klimov Vk-1 image via J JMesserly/wikicommons.