The Tsar Tank, also known as the Netopyr' which stands for Pipistrellus (a genus of bat) or Lebedenko Tank, was an unusual Russian armored vehicle developed by Nikolai Lebedenko, Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin from 1914 onwards. The project was scrapped in 1915 after initial tests deemed the vehicle to be underpowered and vulnerable to artillery fire. It has become known among industrial design students as a catastrophic failure of engineering without proper consideration to design.
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