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Military Mad Max Redefines the Monster Truck With Oshkosh Chassis

By Nathan Piscopo

KHANBOGD-SOUTH GOBI DESERT, MONGOLIA - OCTOBER 12: Trucks move along the new 110k of road, built as part of Oyu Tolgoi's infrastructure investment, towards the Chinese border October 12, 2012 in the south Gobi desert, Khanbogd region, Mongolia. The Oyu Tolgoi (Mongolian for Turquoise Hill) copper and gold mine is a combined open pit and underground mining project. The site, discovered in 2001, is located approximately 550 km south of the Mongolian capital, Ulan-Batar in the South Gobi Desert. Turquoise Hill Resources (Formerly Ivanhoe Mines) and Rio Tinto signed a long-term comprehensive investment agreement with the Government of Mongolia in 2009 with the deal awarding Turquoise Hill Resources, whose majority shareholder is Rio Tinto, with a controlling 66 percent interest and The Mongolian Government with a 34 percent interest in the project. Rio Tinto provided a comprehensive financing package and assumed direct management of the project under an agreement with Ivanhoe Mines. Initial production from open pit mining is currently underway and commercial production is planned to start in first half of 2013. An 85million USD investment was earmarked for education and training projects, with Mongolians expected to constitute 90 percent of the work force when production begins in 2013. When Oyu Tolgoi starts fully operating Mongolia will be set to become one of the world's top copper and gold producers with production estimates of 450,000 tons of copper and 330,000 ounces of gold annually. Mongolia is currently the world's fastest growing economy with its GDP increasing by more than 17 percent last year and an estimated $1.3 trillion in untapped mineral resources. Oyu Tolgoi is Mongolia's largest foreign investment project and the country's biggest economic undertaking to date, which is projected to add one-third of future value to the country's GDP by 2020. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
KHANBOGD-SOUTH GOBI DESERT, MONGOLIA - OCTOBER 12: Trucks move along the new 110k of road, built as part of Oyu Tolgoi's infrastructure investment, towards the Chinese border October 12, 2012 in the south Gobi desert, Khanbogd region, Mongolia. The Oyu Tolgoi (Mongolian for Turquoise Hill) copper and gold mine is a combined open pit and underground mining project. The site, discovered in 2001, is located approximately 550 km south of the Mongolian capital, Ulan-Batar in the South Gobi Desert. Turquoise Hill Resources (Formerly Ivanhoe Mines) and Rio Tinto signed a long-term comprehensive investment agreement with the Government of Mongolia in 2009 with the deal awarding Turquoise Hill Resources, whose majority shareholder is Rio Tinto, with a controlling 66 percent interest and The Mongolian Government with a 34 percent interest in the project. Rio Tinto provided a comprehensive financing package and assumed direct management of the project under an agreement with Ivanhoe Mines. Initial production from open pit mining is currently underway and commercial production is planned to start in first half of 2013. An 85million USD investment was earmarked for education and training projects, with Mongolians expected to constitute 90 percent of the work force when production begins in 2013. When Oyu Tolgoi starts fully operating Mongolia will be set to become one of the world's top copper and gold producers with production estimates of 450,000 tons of copper and 330,000 ounces of gold annually. Mongolia is currently the world's fastest growing economy with its GDP increasing by more than 17 percent last year and an estimated $1.3 trillion in untapped mineral resources. Oyu Tolgoi is Mongolia's largest foreign investment project and the country's biggest economic undertaking to date, which is projected to add one-third of future value to the country's GDP by 2020. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) /
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Military Mad Max is about the only string of words you could define this thing with. This sand-going land yacht redefines what we thought a monster truck could even be!

I first found Militray Mad Max featured on a Jalopnik article, but the truck is creating a buzz all over the net.

The Military Mad Max is a truck that redefines what we thought a truck could even be, and it’s quite possibly the truck of our wildest dreams (or worst nightmares, depending on which side of its graces you find yourself on).

It apparently belongs to Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, and although you’ll probably have a hard time regurgitating his name two words after you read it, the memory of this machine is going to stick in your head for the rest of your life.

Military Mad Max probably has a different moniker in its native locale, but it’s hard to associate a more fitting title to something that’s rugged enough to plow through a field of IEDs – without even flinching.

Military Mad Max is outfitted with enough spares to refit your entire car – you know, in case you plow through a spike strip accidentally. Two massive spare tires line each side of the insatiably long hood, although the thought of actually changing a tire is impossibly impractical.

It would take a team of soldiers, a slew of special equipment, and probably more time than it would take to literally drag the blown out tires back home and make the repair back at the garage, or warehouse (wherever he parks this thing!).

It certainly has enough wheels to power through a few flats. The monster chassis of the Military Mad Max is allegedly an Oshkosh M1075 (which has a curb weight of 53,000lbs)!

The ten-axle, all-wheel-drive configuration (in factory form) is rated at 86,000lbs, and has a GCWR (gross combined weight rating) of 135,000lbs.

It’s powered by a 600hp, C15 Caterpillar, with torque vectoring channeled by a bullet-proof, Allison 4500, six-speed, automatic transmission. The proprietary Oshkosh transfer case moves Military Mad Max across what we’d expect to be just about any terrain desireable.

The Oshkosh M1075, in its military configuration, was designed for ultimate utility and configured around a Palletized Load System in its A1 variation. Military Mad Max throws all that to the wind with what is being unanimously agreed upon as a Jeep Wrangler cab. It’s the ultimate semi!

Despite the lack of utility, there does seem to be a purpose in mind, and references to “regular” automobiles don’t stop with the crew quarters.

The rear bumper, oddly enough, features a Dodge Dart bumper, and as strange as this may sound, it’s not the first mashup that doesn’t quite make sense, but its Titanic proportions are nearly unmatched!

We’re definitely sensing a deep “Jeep Love” from across the globe, and it seems to be en vogue to smash contemporary trucks and cars together on heavy-duty chassis, just because it can be done.

You’ll instantly recognize the Ram front end on the Jeep body to the right (above). But the second truck (left) has the front end of an International Lonestar.

Although Military Mad Max isn’t even close to the only jaw-dropping custom build in the motor pool, it’s definitely one of the most formidable. There is absolutely no need for something like this to even exist – which is exactly why we had to celebrate it!

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Jalopnik is reporting that the Military Mad Max is already sitting in a museum at the United Arab Emirates. Someone probably got sick of refueling it every 38 seconds (we’re not even going to ask about emissions), but the fact that it exists today is a celebration of customization that surpasses all practicality – because what fun is economy without a little waste here and there?

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