The ZIL-135 is a large eight-wheeled military transport and self-propelled artillery truck manufactured by ZiL during the Cold War from the Soviet Union starting in 1959. Its purpose was to carry and launch a Luna-M ( NATO : Frog-7) surface-to-surface artillery rocket .

The ZIL-135 is a large eight-wheeled military transport Erector Launcher (TEL) also declined into a self-propelled artillery truck, both manufactured by ZiL on a similar chassis during the Cold War from 1959. This became the 8x8 Soviet Union prime mover and launcher platform for the Luna-M (NATO: Frog-7) surface-to-surface artillery rocket.

October 3rd, 1958, ZIL made a 5-ton amphibious vehicle ZIL-135 (8x8). It was powered by two petrol engines ZIL-120VK rated at 130 hp each. Its transmission included a torque converter from ZIL-111, two-stage gear splitter, planetary 3-speed gearbox, single-stage transfer gearbox, and four wheel gears.

Soon a generation appeared, clearly tailored around Soviet needs and locally designed, the ZIL-157 (1957), ZIL-130 series (1964), GAZ-66 (1964), Ural 375 (1961), or MAZ-500 serie. But soon also the need to carry, and later launch missiles rose the need of heavy duty chassis with 8x8 configurations and much more.

它在20世纪70年代末开始在苏联军队服役，是第一种现代旋转和尾翼稳定的重型多管火箭炮。 BM-27 Uragan能够从安装在ZIL-135 8x8底盘后部的16个发射管发射220毫米火箭，这种运载工具与FROG-7自由飞行火箭系统中使用的非常相似。 它有两个汽油发动机，为20吨重的车身提供动力，最高时速可达65公里。 一个引擎驱动卡车左边的四个轮子，而另一个引擎驱动右边的四个轮子。 ZIL-135有八轮驱动，前轴和后轴用于转向。 它的最大运载距离为500公里。 ZIL-135的驾驶室 …

2012年6月27日 · ZiL-135 special wheeled chassis "...The ZIL-135 is a large, 8 wheeled military transport and self-propelled artillery truck produced in the Cold War by the Soviet Union starting in 1959. Its...

5-tonnes amphibious ZIL-135P (8x8) was one of the largest and fastest amphibious in the world. Development started on January 1961. ZIL-135P was designed as a self-propelled wheeled ferry, a part of a heavy mobile floating bridge PMP-A.

MAZ company created the MAZ-543 8×8 truck, but it came from a long lineage, going back to the late 1950s; Aapart from powerful tracked vehocles that can lift 20-30 tons rockets, there was a need for a faster self-propelled wheeled chassis, designed for light to medium missile systems with their launchers.

Amphibian military Russian ZIL-135P (8x8)

ZIL135L, 8x8, 1960, had torsion bars suspensions and steering on extreme axles and 2 middle axles were not suspended. Speed 72 km/h on road. Series manufactured from 1963 to 1994 at Briansk Automobile Plant under the name ZIL-135LM.