The longest cars

To solve non-standard problems created by these machines, which are sometimes difficult to call cars.

Military Monster

After the Vietnam War, the US military concluded that the standing armed army trucks can not solve a number of problems: the military did not suit the low capacity, whether cross-country, etc. And in the early eighties was a competition for the creation of a universal highly mobile vehicle that could. play the role of a truck tractor and a tow truck.

A long-time partner of the American defense establishment - the company Oshkosh Motor Truck, quickly developed a four-car LVS (Logistic Vehicle System) c wheel formula 8 * 8, which in 1985 was adopted. But the ensuing numerous military US companies revealed a number of shortcomings and this car.

In 2006 he was replaced by a modified and improved version LVSR (Logistic Vehicle System Replacement). Machine acquired vymahala fifth axis and a length of 11 meters (width - 2, 48 m height - 4 m 11 remain the same). LVSR weighs 20 tons and can carry 24 tons load 5 and tow a trailer weighing 24 tons. This car can be replaced by just three trucks from the Vietnam War, in addition, hinged cockpit armor improved crew protection, and in which case the module can be installed on the cab roof with a machine gun will allow to fend for themselves.

For all these advantages and versatility comes at a price - basic modification LVSR costs about 415 thousand dollars, but the Pentagon has never troubled high costs. The machine 15 is equipped with a 2-liter turbodiesel Caterpillar capacity of 600 liters. sec., which is mounted on a pair of seven-speed automatic transmission an Allison. On the highway LVSR accelerates to 105 km / h, running a range of 485 kilometers. Depending on version, the machine can transport containers, medical and residential units, water tanks and fuel, fitted with a crane, and act as a tow truck or an engineering vehicle and a tractor. High ground clearance and wheel formula 10 * 10 LVSR allow you to feel confident on the roads, which confirmed the operation of the machine in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the Guinness Book of Records

French company Nicolas Industrie is able to produce not just any trailer to transport bulky cargo, but also trucks. Thus, according to the order of the South African company Rotran Heavy Transport in 2005 the French created a five-axis tractor Nicolas Tractomas TR 10 * 10 D100. Machine length is 12, 6 m, width - 3, 48 m, height - 4, 51 m, weight of the empty car - 40 tons.

Nicolas Tractomas TR10x10 D100 vivid example of how you can make a unique car from others parts: cabin borrowed from Renault, 27, 3-liter diesel engine capacity of the ship's 912 liters. from. (3460 H ∙ m) supplied Caterpillar firm. With the engine for a couple of working automatic Dana Spicer has twelve speeds - 8 forward and 4 to reverse. Bridges borrowed from the German company Kessler, a dimension of tires 385/95 R25 - at Goodyear. The torque is transmitted to all five axes, are rotating only the front four wheels. Total commissioned by the South African company made four copies of Nicolas Tractomas TR 10 * 10 D100, each of which cost to the customer of 800 000 euro and got a proper name.

The French have paid special attention to the reliable operation of all components and units of the car, because he will have to work in extremely difficult conditions, which will not sustain any other tractor in the world. For example, coupling of four tractors able to tow loads of up to 700 tons - spans of bridges, equipment for power stations and other "outsized". Not surprisingly, for his outstanding characteristics Nicolas Tractomas TR 10 * 10 D100 hit the Guinness Book of Records as the largest truck in the world.

Belarusian version of

Once in the Soviet Union, it was decided to adopt a strategic mobile missile complexes, there was a question on which to carry the missile, whose weight reached almost 50 tons. Solve the problem was entrusted to the Minsk Automobile Plant, who in 1990 made the pilot shestnadtsatikolesnoe MAZ-7922. After several revisions and improvements MAZ-7922 turned into a conveyor MZKT 79221-missile complex "Topol-M", the serial production of which began in 1995 at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant.

The terms of reference originally required the machine a good permeability, allow it to move not only along dirt roads, but in an emergency, and on the road. Eight-MZKT-79221 with the wheel formula 16 * 16 received the swiveling wheels on the first and last three axles, wherein the wheels are turned in different directions, ensuring good maneuverability - turning radius of 18 meters (the length of the machine reaches 19, 5 m). MZKT 79221 weighs 39 tons and 5 can carry loads of up to 80 tons.

used on MAZ-7922 tank engine did not accept the customer due to the low service life, so his successor, he received 25, 8-liter turbo-YaMZ 847.10 800 liter capacity. from. (3090 H ∙ m), whose service life lasts for 5000 hours, after which engine overhaul is required.

Fuel consumption can easily bring to a heart attack environmentalists - 300 liters per hundred runs. The most surprising is that this monster shestnadtsatikolesny can accelerate to a decent, considering the size and weight, the speed of 45 km / h. No less surprising is the fact that the Belarusian raketovoza has a Chinese counterpart Wanshan WS51200, as established on the basis of MAZ development. This twenty meters conveyor wheel formula 16 * 12 and the weight 42 tons and is capable of carrying loads up to 80 tonnes. The machine is equipped with a 700-horsepower diesel engine Cummins, gearbox ZF, accelerates to 60 km / h and can travel on one tank of 900 kilometers.

A few years ago, the conveyor has caused an international scandal as eight Chinese cars sold North Korea, and supplies to the country of Western technology, to which belong the engine, gearbox, and a number of other accessories is prohibited. But the Chinese have traditionally rejected all allegations of violation of the sanctions regime, saying that the car bought Koreans were listed in the contract as a timber, much as North Korea began to use them - the Chinese side does not apply.

Train RV

If someone thinks that twenty meters cars are too long, then it is seriously mistaken. Because in the early sixties of the last century, an American company built LeTourneau car length ... 173 meters! The car was named LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train, from which it is clear that the Americans believed their offspring is not a car and a train. Rather, the combination of vehicles off-road, as this giant could move both on-road and off it.

LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train was the brainchild of the Cold War and was intended for the transport of goods in the event of failure of the American railroads and highways. In that case, if the Soviet Union caused a massive nuclear attack on the United States. That's when the foreground would have to get out LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train, capable of delivering up to 400 tons of cargo anywhere in the country, despite the shattered road network.

The cabin accommodates six crew members, which controlled a very difficult process of movement. However, designers LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train applied a number of innovations that facilitate the management of off-road train. From the cockpit with a special remote control command is transmitted to some sections, which at a certain point commit exactly the same maneuver as the parent "locomotive." Due to this "composition" could go as you please: at least strictly straight, though the "snake" - most importantly, it was necessary not to forget to transfer command. LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train could travel 600 km, and flat areas was accelerated to 35 km / h. The construction of the road structure has cost the US military in 3, 7 million dollars, which is equivalent to the current US $ 30 million.

Tests LeTourneau TC-497 Overland Train in 1962 as a whole was successful, but the US military abandoned it: trailer was very expensive, has been difficult to manufacture and maintain, moreover, in the early sixties there were large amounts of traffic helicopters that could deliver the goods faster and cheaper. LeTourneau company later tried to sell his trailer at half the cost, but buyers are not found. Therefore, sections were put on the scrap metal, and to the present day survived only the parent "locomotive" that is on display in one of Utah's museums.