"Willem-Jan Markerink" > wrote in message
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> "Peter" > wrote in
> :
>
> >
> >> 24x24 (yes, that's 12 axles)
> >> http://www.vif2.ru/users/rusarms/aut...AZ-7907_01.jpg
> >>
> >> (but at least driver & copilot can talk to eachother again....)
> >>
> >> A few mo
> >>
> >> http://denisovets.narod.ru/maz/mazpages/maz7907.html
> >>
> >> http://denisovets.narod.ru/maz/mazpages/maz79221.html
> >
> > Did you check out specs on these?
>
> No, my Russian language skills have become a bit rusty lately,
sadly....)
>
> > It's got 1250hp gas turbine engine,
> > and electrical transmission with 24 motors (one for each wheel).
>
> Yeah, that made me wonder, the number of axles needed to make a different
> type of propulsion more efficient, or to cope with increasing drive-train
> slop....no use stepping on the pedal, and having the first axle move 1
> second before the last one....)
> Note that according to the few rare frontal drawings, they all have
> independant suspension, which makes it likely they used the central-tube-
> frame concept like on the Tatra and Pinzgauer.
> (anything else will twist like a pretzel anyway, over such a huge length,
> when articulating)
>
> > Weighs
> > 200tons, top speed 40kmh. It never went into production, only a couple
> > were made.
>
> Don't think stuff like that ever sees serial production....)
> (if only for the fact that they can't produce enough tires so
> quickly....)
>
> > It has been used to successfully transport 80ton boat over
> > 150kms. Sheesh... suspect this guy won't fit in my garage
>
> Somewhere sometime there, they ev was a ship hull from titanium in
> construction too....ordered by an European customer, with good contacts
> with some titanium specialist company....well, contacts soured, company
> went bankrupt, ship hull vanished.
> Would have been the first and only titanium ship ever IIRC.
>
> --
> Bye,

The russkis have some Titanium subs around IIRC, they wanted the extra depth
capacity to get below where US torps were crushed by the water pressure is
one explanation I've heard... sounds a bit far fetched tho... more
likely they wanted to get below deep thermoclines to hide from sonar.