Is this another piece of found tech?
A tank, anyone think this is a real posibility? The guns range is litimited by those silly wheels.
Very little info on the regular interwebs!
'During World War I, Russia constructed the Tsar Tank, a vehicle unlike anything the world had ever seen. But this tricycle-like behemoth had one little problem'
The Tsar Tank in field tests. Notice the soldiers standing on the carriage.
'Also known as the Netopyr, this behemoth was the brainchild of Nikolay Lebedenko, a Russian military engineer who worked on the original design with Nikolai Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin.
The Tsar Tank was gigantic even by modern standards. It was nearly 60 feet long and almost 30 feet wide. It featured a large armored T-shaped carriage with a main top turret bristling with machine guns. Lower sponsons were also equipped machine guns for covering fire. A crew of 10 operated the vehicle.
Would you put 10 soldiers in one place to be shot at? A machine in the field requiring 10 operators?
'Each large wheel was powered by a 250-horsepower engine that was adapted from motors captured from a destroyed German Zeppelin. On firm ground, the Tsar Tank reached a top speed of 11 miles an hour. At the rear, a small metal rotor provided balance, giving the military vehicle the appearance of a tricycle on steroids'

After failed tests, it was left in a swamp and eventually broke up for scrap in 1923 (same old story)
Giants roller boot?
Source
A tank, anyone think this is a real posibility? The guns range is litimited by those silly wheels.
Very little info on the regular interwebs!
'During World War I, Russia constructed the Tsar Tank, a vehicle unlike anything the world had ever seen. But this tricycle-like behemoth had one little problem'
The Tsar Tank in field tests. Notice the soldiers standing on the carriage.
'Also known as the Netopyr, this behemoth was the brainchild of Nikolay Lebedenko, a Russian military engineer who worked on the original design with Nikolai Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin.
The Tsar Tank was gigantic even by modern standards. It was nearly 60 feet long and almost 30 feet wide. It featured a large armored T-shaped carriage with a main top turret bristling with machine guns. Lower sponsons were also equipped machine guns for covering fire. A crew of 10 operated the vehicle.
Would you put 10 soldiers in one place to be shot at? A machine in the field requiring 10 operators?
'Each large wheel was powered by a 250-horsepower engine that was adapted from motors captured from a destroyed German Zeppelin. On firm ground, the Tsar Tank reached a top speed of 11 miles an hour. At the rear, a small metal rotor provided balance, giving the military vehicle the appearance of a tricycle on steroids'

After failed tests, it was left in a swamp and eventually broke up for scrap in 1923 (same old story)
Giants roller boot?
Source
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