Giant machines of the world

Modern time is an era of mechanisms and machines. To help people get cars, they help in such matters as lifting of goods, their transportation, delivery, etc.

Many years ago, as an aid to the delivery of heavy loads, animals were used: horses, bulls, buffaloes, elephants, camels, etc. With the development of technology and technology, mankind adapted water, steam, and electricity to help. Mankind invented and created huge mechanisms and machines that perform heavy and sometimes dangerous work.

The article will deal with giant machines of the world. Those that man invented for all the time of engineering activities and ideas. Representatives of different countries will be announced. Machines will be painted not by rating, but simply presented. However, it can be noted in advance that most of the giant machines are designed for mining operations.

Excavator Bagger 288

The excavator, called Bagger 288, was created in Germany. Excavator from the series "Giant machines" in height reaches about 90 meters, has a length of about 200 meters and a weight of 30.5 tons. The Bagger 288 is recognized as the largest ground vehicle. It exceeds the largest caterpillar transporters that transport missiles.

Liebherr T282B tipper truck

For transporting soil that is removed from the ground by mining machines that are comparable in size to the Bagger 288 excavator, appropriate dump trucks are needed. Most trucks that are used in mining operations have a distinctive feature - huge dimensions.

Since in the article we are talking about giant machines, we can not fail to mention the car Liebherr T282B. Here are its sizes:

• Length - 15.3 meters;
• Height is 7.84 meters, which is comparable to a two-story building;
• The width of the machine is 9.52 meters.

And all this at a weight of 252 tons. Carrying capacity of the machine is about 363 tons of cargo at an engine power of 3650 horsepower.

Caterpillar 797B

Like other giant machines, this model is also used in quarrying. Caterpillar 797B is in second place in terms of load capacity. Tippers were used in quarries for the extraction of iron, coal, copper and gold. Entrepreneurs have long calculated that it is more profitable to have a huge dump truck than a truck fleet of trucks.

Titan

Giant cars are diverse, as this article says. Now we will talk about a dump truck called Terex 33-19 "Titan", designed for operation in mines and quarries. The dumper was manufactured in a single copy in 1974, the car had a carrying capacity of 350 tons of cargo. For today the car is an exhibit in one of the museums.

Domestic car BelAZ

Speaking about the most gigantic machines, we can not fail to mention the domestic development - BelAZ-75710. This type of transport is serving in quarries and coal mines. The car's carrying capacity is 450 tons of cargo. The volume of fuel tanks is 5600 liters.

"Mammoth" LTM

German specialists have corrected the situation with low load capacity of automobile cranes and developed a real giant, whose name is the mobile crane "Mammoth LTM".

To date, this is the world's largest truck crane on the wheel. The lifting capacity of the crane is 1200 tons with a lifting height of up to 180 meters. Adjustment and preparation for the beginning of work on the machine last about eight hours of working time.

Bulldozer D575A-3SD

One of the largest among the bulldozers in the world is a machine designed and manufactured in Japan. This machine has impressive dimensions:

• Height - 4.9 meters;
• Length - 12,5 meters $
• Width - 7,5 meters.

At the same time, the bulldozer weighs 152.6 tons, which is equal to the weight of three modern tanks.

Military machines-giants

In 2015, China conducted the first 24-hour flight of a huge airship named Yuanmeng, which has the following dimensions:

• Length - 75 meters;
• Height - 22 meters.

Its dimensions are fully correlated with a volume of 18 thousand cubic meters. The airship was raised to a height of twenty kilometers to test the control systems and engines.

The use of modern technologies in the design of the machine (solar energy and modern electronics) has made it possible to provide a power reserve for six months and to increase the payload capacity, which ranges from five to seven tons.

Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences note that airships (dirigibles) are suitable for long-duration flights at altitudes between 20 and 100 kilometers above sea level.

This height means that the airship will be located in the line of sight from an area of more than 100,000 square miles. The airship is equipped with radars, which allows it to capture a vast territory. In turn, this means a time reserve in the detection of threats, such as cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles, will avoid fatal fate, thereby allowing troops to more readily detect and destroy threats. Airship can be attributed to the class of "giant combat vehicles."