Tassie Tank Adventures offers rides in military vehicles and has just upgraded its firepower with the arrival of two Soviet-era camouflaged armoured personnel carriers.

Both were made in Poland in the late 1960s.

The MT-LBu, which has tracks, was used to sneak into the battlefield to spot the enemy and direct artillery fire.

The other, called a Skot, has eight wheels and two propellers, so it can travel on land and water.

It carried 10 soldiers into battle and was armed with a machinegun.

The machines were imported by Troy Walker and his business partner, Paul Bartlett, and they are now getting them ready to take paying passengers around an Epping Forest ``assault course'' from December 9.

``The track has lumps and bumps, so you get a great ride,'' Mr Walker said.

``If you take them at any sort of speed, you could get airborne.

``And the Skot is fully operable in a nuclear environment.''

The Skot has a top speed of 100km/h and the MT-LBu can manage 80km/h.

Mr Walker had to render the machinegun on the Skot inoperable before importing it, but he is fitting a gas system so the gun will produce a lot of noise, smoke and kick when it is ``fired''.

``No one else in Australia has them, not even the army,'' Mr Walker said.

``Maybe we should get a contract as the opposing force for the army.

``It's just like Hollywood, but minus the bullets.

``And you can go to work on Monday and say `I went for a ride in a Russian tank on the weekend'.''

Mr Walker said the Skot, but not the tracked vehicle, would be registered and available for special occasions.

``We can even do funerals, like shove the ashes down the barrel and fire you out,'' he said.