One such model was the Russian Tsar Tank - an armored vehicle whose name did not live up to its awkward design. Simple History. The Tsar Tank - The Strangest Tank Ever.

The Tsar Tank was outfitted with two massive front wheels on either side, and a much smaller third wheel centered in the rear. Looking more like a giant piece of farming machinery, this tank was ...

The Tsar Tank and the tsar. Public Domain Lebedenko's bold and ambitious project, far ahead of its time, greatly interested Tsar Nicholas II. The heart ...

The Tsar differed from modern tanks in that it didn't have treads, instead using two massive 27-foot-tall front wheels and a small third wheel, 5 feet in diameter, that trailed behind for steering.

As a result, the Tsar Tank was scrapped, both figuratively and literally, so its thick armor could be used for more viable tank designs. Antonov A-40. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain.

The Tsar Tank never made it past the prototype stage, in part because the design placed a lot of the vehicle's weight on two small contact points, making it easy to get bogged down in poor terrain.

The ‘Tsar Tank’ was named after Lebedenko’s unswerving belief that these machines could “break the entire German front in one night, and Russia will win the war,” as he told the emperor ...

Then there was the Russian Lebedenko, or "Tsar Tank," which goes down in the annals of military hardware as the most unusual, and arguably most impractical armored vehicle ever devised.

The Tsar Tank in Ukrainian service. Yuriy Butusov capture In early April, a Russian assault group attacked positions held by the Ukrainian 12th Azov Brigade outside Terny, just west of Kreminna in ...