Kia KM1002

     Notes: This is South Korea’s prime mover for tank transporters and other semi-trailers of a military nature.  It has an 8x8 suspension with good off-road capabilities.  It is based on the KM100 heavy truck. The cab is a forward control tipper type, with seating for the driver and 5 passengers in two rows of seats, with a space behind the rear seat for crew equipment.  There are twin recovery winches behind the cab, along with a spare tire; these winches have a capacity of 25 tons each.  The KM1002 is designed to operate in a wide variety of climatic conditions, from deep winter to a hot summer.  It is a fairly quiet truck as well, giving off noise of less than 85 decibels at full power. The engine of the KM1002 is a Hyundai D6CA diesel developing 450 horsepower, coupled with an unspecified automatic transmission. The automatic transmission, along with power brakes, power steering, and the relatively narrow width (for a tractor truck) allows the driver better control of the truck in the narrow streets often encountered in South Korea’s cities and towns.

     A variant, the KM1001, has a towing capacity half that of the KM1002 and is somewhat smaller, but is otherwise virtually identical to the KM1002.

     Twilight 2000 Notes: These semi-tractors do not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.