Tsar Tank
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Key facts
- Place of origin
- Russian Empire
- In service
- 1914–1915 (experimental)
- Used by
- Russian Empire
- Mass
- approx 60 t (59 long tons; 66 short tons)
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Width
- 12 metres (39 ft)
- Height
- 9 m (30 ft)
- Main armament
- cannon and machine guns (turret and sponsons)
- Engine
- 2x Maybach engine, 240 hp (180 kW) each
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- tank
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Manufacturer
- Russian Empire
- Image
- Tsar tank.jpg
- Height
- 9000
- Width
- 12000
- Length
- 17800
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- Commons category
- Tsar tank
- service entry
- 1914-01-01
- powered by
- karburátorový motor
- service retirement
- 1915-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tsar Tank (Russian: Царь-танк), also known as the Netopyr' (Russian: Нетопырь, literally "pipistrelle") or Lebedenko Tank (Russian: танк Лебеденко), was a Russian armoured vehicle developed by Nikolai Lebedenko, Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin from 1914 onwards. The project was cancelled in 1915 after initial tests deemed the vehicle to be underpowered and vulnerable to artillery fire.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tsar Tank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.