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Has anyone ever put Russian army truck tires on a 5 ton?

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Now before you get a McCarthyist twitch in your eye lids at the thought of communist parts on US machines I'm just talking about inanimate rings of rubber and besides, some Finnish howitzers look to wear the same tires.
Russia has some knarly terrain and these seem to work well for them. One of their sizes is 1300x530-533 which is 20.98" rim. So if you had a bigger hammer, a sharper sickle, and some Vaseline maybe they would squeak on to a 21" rim? Fill them with a few litres of vodka for a dynamic balance?

So has anyone ever attempted this? Maybe in the dark while no one was looking?

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-533 ..........So if you had a bigger hammer, a sharper sickle, and some Vaseline maybe they would squeak on to a 21" rim?
Actually those are 21" tires, so no extra Vaseline needed.... :)
Converted, 21" would be exactly 533.4 mm. For practical purpose, rounding-down the decimal just makes it a 533

All I can tell about the tires mounted on those Urals (size 14.00-20) is that they are extremely loud and wearing relatively fast.
 
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