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'{{Infobox weapon | name = Tsar Tank | image = [[File:Tsar tank.jpg|center|300px|The Tsar Tank]] | origin = Russian Empire | service = 1914-1915 (experimental) | number built = 1 | used_by = [[Russian Empire]] | is_vehicle = yes | is_UK = | developed = [[1914]] }} The '''Tsar Tank''' ({{lang-ru|Царь-танк}}), also known as the '''Netopyr'''' (Нетопырь) which stands for [[pipistrellus]] (a genus of [[bat]]) or '''Lebedenko Tank''' (танк Лебеденко), was an unusual [[Russia]]n [[armoured vehicle]] developed by [[Nikolai Lebedenko]] (Николай Лебеденко), [[Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky|Nikolai Zhukovsky]] (Николай Жуковский), [[Boris Stechkin]] (Борис Стечкин), and [[Alexander Mikulin]] (Александр Микулин) from 1914 onwards. The project was scrapped after initial tests deemed the vehicle to be underpowered and vulnerable to [[artillery]] fire. It differed from modern tanks in that it did not use [[caterpillar tracks]]&mdash;rather, it used a [[tricycle]] design. The two front spoked wheels were nearly 9 meters (27 feet) in diameter; the back wheel was smaller, only 1.5 metres (5 feet) high, triple wheel, to ensure maneuverability. The upper [[cannon]] [[turret]] reached nearly 8 meters high. The hull was 12 metres wide with two more cannons in the [[sponson]]s. Additional [[weapons]] were also planned under the belly. Each wheel was powered by a {{convert|250|hp|kW|abbr=on}} [[Sunbeam side-valve aircraft engines|Sunbeam engine]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two|last=Zaloga |first=Steven J |author2=Grandsen, James |year=1984 |publisher=Arms and Armour Press |isbn=0-85368-606-8 |page=27 }}</ref> The vehicle received its nickname because its model, when carried by the back wheel, resembled a bat hanging asleep. The huge wheels were intended to cross significant obstacles. However, due to miscalculations of the weight, the back wheel was prone to getting stuck in soft ground and ditches, and the front wheels were sometimes insufficient to pull it out. This led to a fiasco of tests before the high commission in August 1915. The tank remained in the location where it was tested, some 60 kilometres from Moscow until 1923 when it was finally taken apart for scrap. [[File:Tsar tank model.jpg|thumb|right|Model of the Tsar tank]] ==See also== *[[Father of all bombs]] *[[GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb|Mother of all bombs]] Suck my ass ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons category}} *{{wayback|date=20080709014139|url=http://www.landships.freeservers.com/lebedenko_info.htm|title= Lebedenko (or Tsar) Tank}} *{{Wayback|date=20080419052234url=http://www.panzermodelkit.valka.cz/lebedaj.htm |title=Panzermodelkit.valka.cz: Lebedenko - Tsar tank}} {{WWI tanks|style=wide}} [[Category:Tanks of Russia]] [[Category:World War I tanks of Russia]] [[Category:Trial and research tanks]]'