Transporting a submarine on a truck - GIF

Iranian Navy transporting an old Kilo-class submarine to their base in Bandar Abbas. Found in a Twitter post by a defense analyst here: https://twitter.com/I30mki/status/1280762429664907266

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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-class_submarine

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...389#post161907
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...460#post158541
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...984#post156957
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...654#post147657
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...638#post147598
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...499#post147130
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...074#post141098
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...493#post139263
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...655#post132873
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...441#post131715
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...434#post110539
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...256#post101112

that sure is a little lead tractor, there might be some pushers in the rear.

It was obviously purchased from Russia, but why by truck? Is it travelling the overland route from the Caspian Sea?

If it's anything like their "jets" or "rockets", it's plywood and Fiberglas.

Forrest in Atlanta

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Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

that sure is a little lead tractor, there might be some pushers in the rear.

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Only in America to the truckers feel their tractors have to be larger than the trailers they are pulling . those cab over tractors pulling probably have between 400 and 500 hp. but could be as small as 350 hp. with extra deep reduction low geared transmissions, and the rear ends are planetary drive, common in European transport trucks. most likely there will be an equal number of pusher tractors in the rear. The weight blocks we call them Mafia blocks are sized just large enough to allow full tractive force to be delivered. I've seen some horrendously large loads moved by what I would term as a puissant pulling a bale of hay

My first reaction was to laugh....Iran has a submarine......in the desert?????

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Originally Posted by ibdennyak

My first reaction was to laugh....Iran has a submarine......in the desert?????

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-Eee-right!
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutto.../#535c5a6f55fd

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Originally Posted by DIYSwede

-Eee-right!
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutto.../#535c5a6f55fd

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Why not after all the USA has a naval base in the middle of Nevada

Those tractors can travel fast enough to rip the screen doors right off that thing. :cool:

They need to paint it yellow then half bury it in the ground and live in it

And surround it with a ring of tires half buried upright and a coffee can with a flower in each one. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Crusty

And surround it with a ring of tires half buried upright and a coffee can with a flower in each one. :cool:

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I have a hole dug almost large enough but I was saving it for the attack of the Covid zombie apocalypses

Probably because it leaks like a sieve...