Tsar Tank

Tsar Tank
The Tsar Tank
The Tsar Tank
Place of originRussian Empire
Service history
In service1914–1915 (experimental)
Used byRussian Empire
Production history
Designed1914
No. built1
Specifications
Massapprox 60 t (59 long tons; 66 short tons)
Length18 m (59 ft)
Width12 metres (39 ft)
Height9 m (30 ft)
Crew10

Main
armament
unknown
Engine2x Maybach engine
240 hp (180 kW) each

The Tsar Tank (Russian: Царь-танк, transcription: Tsar'-tank), also known as the Netopyr' (Russian: Нетопырь, which stands for Pipistrellus, a genus of bat) 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.