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Yes, the diesel-electric ZiL-135Sh. [1][2] 120t payload, zero-turn radius. The prototype looks deceptively small, those are motorized Il-18 landing gears, and t
by orbital-decay 6y ago
Yes, the diesel-electric ZiL-135Sh. [1][2] 120t payload, zero-turn radius. The prototype looks deceptively small, those are motorized Il-18 landing gears, and the payload was supposed to go on top of them. The full-scale vehicle was being tested but there are no photos left, apparently.
[1] http://www.gruzovikpress.ru/article/6377-zil-135sh-transporter-tyajelovoz-dlya-transportirovki-krupnogabaritnyh-blokov-raketonositeley-zemnaya-sostavlyayushchaya-lunnoy-programmy/ http://www.gruzovikpress.ru/article/6377-zil-135sh-transport... (in Russian)
[2] https://truck-auto.info/zil/304-135sh.html https://truck-auto.info/zil/304-135sh.html (less info, some more photos of the prototype with the wheels turned 90)
- avmich 6y agoThank you! Glad to read details :) .
- D_Alex 6y agoSo, in my industry, moving 10,000 tonne loads is routine(-ish). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wp41alE8Mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wp41alE8Mg
- orbital-decay 6y agoYeah, it was supposed to look similar but obviously non-modular and with less wheels. It was USSR in 1967, nothing like that was available, so they had to improvise. More like a wheeled version of NASA crawler-transporter designed to cover fairly long distances across Kazakh Steppes.
- ComodoHacker 6y agoAlso http://www.denisovets.ru/zil/zilpages/zil135sh.html http://www.denisovets.ru/zil/zilpages/zil135sh.html