ZIL-135

The ZIL-135 was a large Soviet eight-wheeled military transport and self-propelled artillery truck made by ZiL from 1959, during the Cold War. Its main job was to carry and launch the Luna-M surface-to-surface artillery rocket, known to NATO as the Frog-7, and it later served as the launch vehicle for the BM-27 Uragan rocket system. It was widely exported to other communist states, notably North Korea. Two gasoline engines power the 20 tonne vehicle to a maximum speed of 65 km/h: one engine drives the four wheels on the left and the other the four wheels on the right, and only the front and rear axles steer. Cruising range is about 500 km. The cab is protected against nuclear, biological and chemical contamination so the rockets can be fired without exposing the six-man crew, who can set the system up or take it down in three minutes.