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Vezdechod - The Land Cruiser

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Vezdechod is large universal heavy-duty vehicle designed primarily for continental exploration, research, colonization and supplies. From a structural point of view it is actually an inland ship on the large wheeled chassis. The main source of energy is reactor located in the reactor hall which is part of engineering. The heat produced in the reactor then poweres pair of steam turbines. Backup source of energy are batteries that can be recharged of dynamos driven by the turbines. The battery power lasts a vehicle for driving a few miles. In case of emergency reactor core can be fired high into the air where it can explode at a safe altitude. Vezdchod includes accommodation and social facilities for the twenty person crew and an equally large team of researchers or passengers. The vehicle is controlled according the mission, either from the bridge, like a ship or from two suspended cabs as the vehicle. In the first case lookout patrols are placed into cabs to monitor the area in front of the wheels. Very often both management systems continuously rotated. In the rear of the vehicle is a large platform lift, which can be used for unloading the cargo form bilge hangars. Smaller vehicles stored in hangars can also drive out via elevator platform. In the highest position elevator platform may serve as a secondary heliport, so that, if necessary, up to two helicopters may land on vezdechod simultaneously. Not exactly the kind of vehicle you want to see coming down the highway. But then again, this vehicle can make its own roads.

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This looks like if somebody made NASA's shuttle crawler into a mobile base!

It wouldn't surprise me if SFE decided to send a sounding rocket, or a small orbital launch vehicle along for the trip.