A video (below) of a T-90 tank crossing a busy road has gone viral on the web.

The video was recorded on Saturday by a motorist and shows cars driving on a road in an industrial area in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, reports Russia Today.

Suddenly, a tank bursts out of the snow on the side of the road, before crossing and vanishing out of view.

The driver of the car, recording the incident, says: “If we hadn’t stopped, the tank would have run us over."

A representative of the tank maker's company Uralvagonzavod told the RIA Novosti news agency: “It’s those cars that passed the traffic lights as they were changing that broke traffic regulations. The tank was going past on a green light and had right of way.”

The company claimed the tank was traveling down an established route between the factory and the testing range.

The T-90 tank costs upwards to $2 million to buy, and more than 1,500 of them are in service around the world.

In August of 2012, a video (below) emerged of a Sukhoi jet flying just feet above cars on a road.

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