About the book: 2011 / New book from the author of the bestseller "Cars of the Soviet Army"! The first encyclopedia of top-secret projects of the military automobile industry, irrefutably proving that in this area the USSR was “ahead of the rest” and that the highest achievement of our automotive industry was not even the well-known mass army vehicles, but the unique multi-axle all-wheel drive chassis for strategic missile systems, developed in conditions of absolute secrecy assignments that were on combat duty in constant motion along special secretive dirt roads and were virtually invulnerable to the enemy. Unsurpassed high-speed amphibians and special amphibious trucks, active road trains and multi-section vehicles, the most advanced units and materials: multi-fuel, gas turbine, electric and even jet engines, ultra-strong titanium alloys - Soviet engineers and designers truly knew no equal! A new encyclopedia by a leading historian of automotive technology , illustrated with hundreds of exclusive photographs, provides a complete overview of these secret developments, which were many decades ahead of their time and turned the USSR into a leader in military automotive production..