MAZ-7907

The MAZ-7907 was a Soviet 24x24 transporter erector launcher prototype designed and developed by the Minsk Automobile Plant in Belarus for the RT-23 Molodets intercontinental ballistic missile. After the Soviet government ordered the RT-23 system in August 1983, its road-mobile version, named Celina-2, needed a chassis able to carry a missile of 104.5 tons launch weight, 22.6 metres long and 2.4 metres in diameter inside its launch tube. The first of two prototypes was assembled at MAZ in March 1985. The vehicle is 28.1 metres long, 4.1 metres wide and 4.4 metres high. Two 1250 horsepower Klimov GTD-1250TFM gas turbine engines from the T-80 tank drive an electric generator that feeds a 30 kilowatt traction motor at each of the 24 wheels, which have independent hydropneumatic suspension. The road-mobile RT-23 was cancelled, and at least one prototype was later used to carry bridge parts and ships.