Project design

   Project cars differed a great originality and ambitiousness. According to his own Lebedenko, the idea of the machine, it met the Central Vehicles Arba, which, thanks to the wheels of large diameter, easily overcoming the bump and ditch. Therefore, in contrast to the "classical" tanks using tracked vehicle, Tsar Tank was wheeled combat vehicle and the construction of much larger gun resembled lafet. Two huge front wheel had a diameter of about 9 meters, the rear is a skating rink was markedly less, about 1.5 m. The top stationary cutting machine-gun was raised above the ground about 8 pm T-shaped box body width was 12 m, at the pro - plane wheels extreme points of the shell were designed sponsors with machine guns, one on each side (it was also possible to install a gun). Under the planned installation of an additional head machine gun turret. The design speed of movement of vehicles was 17 km / hr.

   Paradoxically, in spite of unusual ambition, complexity and huge size of the machine, Lebedenko managed to "break" your project. The machine has received approval in several instances, but finally agreed to an audience with the case of Nicholas II, during which the emperor gave Lebedenko clockwork wooden model of his car with an engine based on the Gramophone springs. According to his courtiers, the emperor and the engineer half-hour "Aki small children" crawled on the floor, model of the room. Toy frisky beluga on carpets, easily breaking the stack of two or three volumes "Laws of the Russian Empire". Audience end that impressed Nicholas II ordered the car to open the project funding.