MAZ-7410 Tractor + Trailer from Trumpeter

Electrically powered trailer wheels:
A design very popular with the Russians.

Years ago the very large trailers that moved the Russian ICBMs from the factory to the silos had electrically powered drive wheels.

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These trailers were both pulled and pushed by 537 F/A’s that had generators built into the area behind the cab/engine.

Below; the rear “pusher” vehicle:
With both structural and electrical connections on the “probe”.

And on the trailer:

(All photos from the Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Ukraine
(Музей ракетних військ стратегічного призначення )

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