Episode 415 - The Tsar Tank

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Once upon a time the Russian Empire funded the construction of what might be the world's dumbest tank that is arguably not a tank at all. Larger than any of its peers during WWI, the Tsar Tank goes down in history due to its strange shape, weird wheels, and the fact that developers of the Battlefield video game series thought it was too unrealistic to put it in one of their games.

SOURCES:

Zaloga, Steven. Grandsen, James. Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two.

Milsom, John. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-tsar-tank-is-possibly-the-strangest-tank-ever-devised

https://www.rbth.com/defence/2014/09/29/the_first_russian_tanks_a_long_and_difficult_road_to_the_battlefield_40199.html

https://www.thearmorylife.com/tsar-tank-russias-secret-wwi-weapon/

http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles/Lebedenko.html