Always loved the look of this truck, an awesome bit of kit.

What is 80 feet long, 40 feet wide, 20 feet high, is powered by four diesel engines that chug along at 1500 rpm, belches clouds of thick, oily smoke, runs at 90dB, and cuts an apple into four equally sized slices? A Soviet machine designed and manufactured to cut an apple into three equally sized slices.

@naufilmanasiya1368

5 ай бұрын

Hahaha- one of my favorite soviet jokes

@elenadapra8129

5 ай бұрын

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@ObamaoZedong

5 ай бұрын

Only 90db? Wow that's quiet by Soviet standards.

@Waxcoat

4 ай бұрын

Well Russia had great engenieurs, making superb helikopters and airplanes.

@JoeC88

4 ай бұрын

@@ObamaoZedong 90db is in Stealth mode

"How many leaf spring the truck will need?" - yes

You can read in your Russian picture frame that it was v12 engine with 320hp, and cut away drawing clearly shows 6 exhaust ports per side of manifold. Also Berliet was much heavier truck rated for much heavier load, a completely different class

But…is a ridiculously giant and unnecessary large truck built to be an unstoppable freight train on land not enough a reason to exist already?

I cant believe that the soviet industry or military wasnt interessted especially the oil Industry… i Like this big truck and in russia is enough Space for this Monster especially on the countryside i think it was too early or the wrong Time for that machine

@Bare36

4 ай бұрын

Probably it was too expensive for them..

@Kasi11

4 ай бұрын

They simply didnt needed it, for smaller cargo they had the Ural, KrAz and Zil that also fittet in the common planes and for larger freights or transport tanks, they had the MAZ 535/537

@ralphllivrah9551

2 ай бұрын

Things have to make money. Everything is based on its expense. Especially with basically free labor. It was better to have two smaller than one large.

Similar trucks were common in the tundra and, like you said, in the desert. But, you got your click.

Why you need some big trucks like this when you have MAZ 537 and KrAZ 256

Shame it didn't work. The old Hayes and Pacific rigs here would haul 150 Tons up or down and run V-12 bus motors and even Allison automatics and straight drives. And R.G. came out with the electric rig like that but was long as a dead snake. Oh well. Better luck next time, Comrade.

@darthtrump4428

5 ай бұрын

i think the hayes and pacifics got their sucess because they could transport old growth on the west coast, while in the cold tundrat giant tree species just dont grow like that and while you could load so much more of them thin ones, its just not as practical compared to using standard logging trucks and since they arent as long as the old growth was, the long compositions also arent needed had the NAMI needed water cooled brakes, it would've gotten them instaled later, just like hayes had the water tanks with sprinklers onto brake drums, which look almost as crude aftermarket ugrade done by repair shop (i lowe old hayes, but its the old growth logging that made them evolve into oversized trucks, and not the vice versa), and now that one is gone, so is the other

@lewiemcneely9143

5 ай бұрын

Yes but they were still something in their day. Now t's the rigid frame mining trucks that do the deal.@@darthtrump4428

I'd say this truck very much falls in line with the T100. They did little else than prove that such a large truck that could go anywhere could be made. If the soviet union had a presence in africa, it'd be exactly the same as the berliet.

They have log trucks very similar to this…

I know there are of course substantial differences in terms of terrain capability, torque, and many other important factors, but it’s still insane to me that this beast put out only FORTY more horsepower than my incredibly average Subaru. Literally two modern SUV’s pulling in tandem would destroy this thing for total HP.

@paulofelipebbraga9634

2 ай бұрын

Soviet engine technology was largely outdated back then.

Are there any that survived to this day?

Soviets showed they could also make a big truck. Alright.

@Kasi11

4 ай бұрын

They could do even better, look up the MAZ 7904

Looks similar to LeTourneau overland stuff.

BR transportador. 💙 💛 🤍 💚

If i owned it. I would lift it and get bigger tires. So mine was the biggest one.

@JoeC88

4 ай бұрын

and chrome it ...

Would have been a great carrier for a Patlabor 🙃

👍👍👍👍👍

2:43 horepowe is not a unit for power... its power per time and says nothing for trucks, torque would be the important unit.

In other words, it was spawned from a boylike pissing contest between Cold War rivals.

It was used in the 60s to deliver toilet paper to the GUM department store

Anybody good with “Spintires” mods should definitely make this thing a thing

3 speeds and 300hp? Ok it's soviet

@albertpotter9787

5 ай бұрын

It probably has a torque converter

@Kasi11

4 ай бұрын

Hp says nothing about power.... its power per time, torque would be the correct unit. For example the MAZ 537 only has around 500 hp, some cars have that much, but it can pull over 60 tons because the engine develops around 2200 Nm torque.

@Kasi11

4 ай бұрын

@@albertpotter9787yes, it has

Now look at TELs the missle transporters

Always amusing to hear the words "unnecessary heavy and large" spoken with an American accent.

A good idea that could not be implemented it happens

Nami or named 76

Jay Leno needs to get one of these trucks on his show!

Well build a house on that..or a mobile office..what else..😂😂😂

@CrusaderSports250

5 ай бұрын

The ultimate off road mobile home, for those descreet camping expeditions 😊.

@CrusaderSports250

5 ай бұрын

The ultimate off road mobile home, for those descreet camping expeditions 😊.

R.mak Soviet the other giant

Largest Truck they UdSSR build By MAZ company in belarus

Much like the Soviet Union

@kristoffer3000

4 ай бұрын

Other than pulling over 100 million people out of desperate poverty, helping other socialist nations get their freedom, winning the space race (the US getting 1 W on the board and screaming that they won isn't actual winning), making huge strides in cinematography, art, science, medicine, architecture etc etc etc

unsuccessful rocket truck, nothing more. MAZ "Uragan" line (535, 543 and other up to gigantic 7912 with GWM 100 tonn) and BAZ (135) won the competition.

Sounds like "compensation" for something else, to me 😅😅!

The entire Soviet Union served no useful purpose….☝️🧐

@buysncharge

5 ай бұрын

Well. The one thing...

@kristoffer3000

4 ай бұрын

Other than pulling over 100 million people out of desperate poverty, helping other socialist nations get their freedom, winning the space race (the US getting 1 W on the board and screaming that they won isn't actual winning), making huge strides in cinematography, art, science, medicine, architecture etc etc etc

@Kasi11

4 ай бұрын

So thats why more than 50% of the russians want the USSR back?

Too bad it's metric, I coulda found a use for it...

Nothing else but another expensive "glorious leader's" whim.