Strap-on tank converts a car into a true all-terrain vehicle

Potentially a good idea, but poorly executed. And the Russian \"inventor\" wasn\'t the first to come up with it. An almost identical track conversion was produced in the UK back in the \'seventies. I recall seeing it on demonstration with a Ford P100 pick-up truck on the back. In that instance, though, the vehicle\'s wheels were retained and the tracks were driven via rollers which were rotated by the tyres. Any wheeled two-wheel-drive vehicle could be driven on and off the tracked platform without modification. If I recall, directional control was achieved by hydraulically operated steering brakes via a simple remote control, but I\'m a bit sketchy on that aspect of it. There may well be a demand fo something cheap and cheerful like this in Russia, but I suspect considerably more development is required.
Similarly, you refer to the Subaru WRX STI with its Trax conversion. This isn\'t a new idea either. The concept was first developed by a Scottish engineer back in the \'sixties, if not earlier, when a Land Rover was fitted with four Cuthbertson track units so it could operate in boggy conditions. It was used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomb Disposal teams on the bombing ranges and, subsequently, other duties were found for it. The conversion was available for Land Rovers for years.
I guess there is rarely ever anything new in this world. :)

At to steering, I think they are using a split master cylinder system with braking of one tread at a time to steer. the front Hubs are on a connection to the master cylinders and \"brake\" the track to cause it to turn the way you wish to go. This is not a hard concept to put in use as the Cushman Trackster has used it for over 30 years as has most tracked units of any design or the alternate of shifting power from one track to the other. Hope this helps you.

This conversion system operates by mounting a car chassis to the track assembly and the power is delivered by apparently attatching the vehicles drivelline to the diferential that is built into the track assembly. the steering is accomplished by the two master cylinders that are attatched to what appears to be the front axles. when the wheel is turned it actuates the master cylinder porportionaly and brakes the corrisponding disc brake assembly at the rear of the track assembly slowing the track on that side and making the vehicle turn. Buldozers use this same method of control, though more complex. This track assembly is driven from the rear and would most likely only work with a rear wheel drive car without signifigant modification to the track assembly.

I\' m surprised to hear the British came up with both the trax and the tank design for car especially back many years ago. I remember actually seeing a Hummer fitted with 4 trax treads a decade ago similar to the recently Subaru which promted I had to get a Hummer just for that... LOL...

From the videos, it surely looks like a good thing to own a tank in that -30C degrees weather!!!!

What red blooded Ruskii could say Niet?