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Howe & Howe Tech is a new Discovery science show on Tuesday nights. The reality program stars twin brothers, Mike and Geoff Howe, who are known for extreme vehicle fabrication and design. Mike and Geoff are inventors who design and build vehicles ranging from high-speed tanks to subterranean rovers. The brothers happen to be married to two sisters, Tracy and Tammy, who work in the company office.

Mike and Geoff rely on their hard working team to help them create cutting-edge vehicles. The deadlines are often tight and testing must be done on these extreme vehicles before they are shipped out. Testing can be complex, requiring riding over rough terrain to blowing up explosives under the vehicle.

The Howe brothers have created a number of extreme vehicles used by the military, SWAT and law enforcement agencies. The Ripsaw is the original vehicle created by the brothers, making them famous internationally. The Ripsaw turn on a dime, goes from zero to 50mph in 3.5 seconds, and can scale a 30-foot 45-degree hill. $1.5 million may seem like a lot of money to produce the Ripsaw but it is cheap in comparison to other vehicles on the market.

Next Howe & Howe Technologies created the Badger, known as the world’s smallest tank, for the Las Vegas Metro SWAT team. One of the newest creations by the brothers is the SR-1, a subterranean rover able to go down into a mine to transport workers and supplies down the miles-long shafts. The personnel carrier can survive fireball blasts, cratered terrain, and cave-ins.

Many of the vehicles the Howe brothers have invented are created to keep our military safe in the line of duty and police officers safe in the workplace. These vehicles are virtually indestructible, a new vision of safety that can be used during war and every day law enforcement in our country.

The Howe brothers are known in Defense Department R&D circles as the “Wright Brothers of the Military”. At age 6 the brothers did experiments on the family toaster and seeing what they could blow up in the wood stove. At age 16, the brothers purchased their first car and started experimenting with vehicles. In 1996 the brothers started building custom cars and off-road buggies with nicknames like Godzilla and T-Rex. The vision for their company took hold when they created the world’s fastest tank in 2001. After a high performance prototype of the tank became Ripsaw, the company went into high gear.

Check out the show site online on Discovery to see videos and descriptions of the cool vehicles they have created.

Watch Howe & Howe Tech on Discovery, Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.