"Peter" <peter@greatnowhere.com> wrote in
news:c0544d$13cs2t$1@ID-97500.news.uni-berlin.de:
>
>> 24x24 (yes, that's 12 axles)
>> http://www.vif2.ru/users/rusarms/auto/maz/maz-7907/MAZ-7907_01.jpg
>>
>> (but at least driver & copilot can talk to eachother again....
)
>>
>> A few more:
>>
>> 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,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
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