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Meet Tank Lebedenko:the biggest battle tank ever built
gizmowatch.com - 8/12/2008
Meet Tank Lebedenko:the biggest battle tank ever built
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Alpheus: If you thought battle tanks of our generation are intimidating, it is time for some history lessons. Wars have always given us some of the most fascinating machines, in spite of all the gore and disorder. And to justify this conviction, we shall take a trip down memory lane to unearth a behemoth of the early 90s. Nicknamed the King Tank or Tank Lebedenko, this battle tank could ...

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Boing Boing Gadgets:  Lebedenko's massive, land-crawling Tsar Tank

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Lebedenko's massive, land-crawling Tsar Tank
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... large ditches and walls, as well as gelatinize fleeing hordes of Bolsheviks. Unfortunately, they didn't work very well, and the tank was abandoned where it was being tested, 60 kilometers from Moscow, for the next 8 years, until it was dismantled for scrap in 1923. If The Empire Strikes Backhad played out not in science-fiction but Leninist folklore, the Tsar Tank would have been the AT-AT to Lenin's Luke and Siberia's Hoth. Tsar Tank [Live Internet via Gizmowatch] The Russian WW1 Lebendenko (or Tsar) Tank [Landships] ...

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