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Tsar Tank developed by the Russians during the First World War. The armored vehicle is considered to be an utter engineering failure due to its numerous design flaws.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h..._tsar_tank.jpg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...309#post158002
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...664#post147710
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...598#post143269
OK, the pic does it little justice. Poor shot angle makes hard to determine what's going on. So, I googled it...comedy ensued!
Toolmaker51, do you have links from your googling?
Funny you should ask. I just wrote WW1 Tsar TankQuote:
Originally Posted by Ralphxyz
Some 671,000+ hits, that I read at random
https://www.google.com/search?client...=WW1+Tsar+Tank
The engineer was impressed with ox-carts ability to traverse rough terrain via large diameter wheels. Thus armed, his prototype scaled books on the Tsar's desk.
"Proving Grounds? We don't need no stinking Proving Grounds!"
Scaled up to chassis they built, the wheels were 27 feet high!
The hilarity started here. Beware, 'History Channel' it's not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSnM4E3lQnk
Not gonna hide that monster. If you want to stay low profile get rid of the turret as the Swedes did...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsvagn_103
@Marv ! :) -Absolutely right. You'd be amazed at what these guys have come up with thru the years!
The motto for our Ordnance Design Department seems to be "Rather Original than Operational",
just like the saddles of the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry in WW1:
As ornamentally exquisite, as unrideable for any longer amount room-time...
No, hiding it unlikely.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
They could have tried aircraft styled camouflage, you know, light blue or grey undercarriage and ground patterns above?
Teeheehee
Definitely wouldn't wanted one at Kursk, but might be great for hiding in the ruins of bombed out cities and picking off Shermans...Oh, wait, the Germans did that with a turret that housed a restyled AA gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by DIYSwede
Thanks, great video.