The Tsar Tank - The Strangest Tank Ever?
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With the outbreak of the First World War, the idea of creating an armored fighting vehicle was born as a solution to the static nature of trench warfare.
It was the beginning of the Age of Tanks.
These first tanks, even though unwieldy and capricious, paved the way towards the tanks that would become a dominant force on the battlefield.
On the other hand, in these early days of tank development, there were also concepts completely different to tanks that we know today.
One such model was the Russian Tsar Tank - an armored vehicle whose name did not live up to its awkward design.
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Visit Russia! We have:
-The Tsar Bell (never ringed)
-The Tsar Cannon (never shoot)
-The Tsar Tank (never was in combat)
-The Tsar Bomb (the only Tsar thing that worked properly and was built by guys that killed Tsar)
And V O D K A
@@winter1353 we have vodka, vodka oh yeah and vodka!
Tsar cannon - no less one shot (during the restoration, traces of burnt gunpowder were found)
And, Russians built other Tsar cannons. First gun, named a "Tsar", was a big bombard from XV century. 3rd "Tsar-cannon" builted in 1860s in Motovilikha (Permian artillery plant), 20" Rodman gun. And, also, Russians built other huge guns, not named a "Tsar". 10" "Eagle" iron ball cannon (1547 or earlier), 21" mortar (1605), 13'5" "unicorn" (1750s), 24" Rodman gun (1860s), 16"/20 naval gun (1883), 500 mm TG-5 howitzer (WW2), 650 mm and 820 mm S-76 guns (Cold war period).
@@winter1353 yeah
You forgot the many variants of the AK-47.
Based on the Tzar's reaction and play time, it should have stayed as a toy.
Lol
"Your highness, we present you with this automatic toy as a birthday gift to your boy Ale-"
*_"DA, THIS WILL WIN WAR"_*
Rasputin: "Oh Tsar, this will lead us to our sufferings rather than...."
Tsar: *Signal two Russian maids* "You ladies, take my advisor to his room. He seem to being tired after countless hours managing this kingdom affair."
Yeah but he wanted to play with a bigger one. Also how dareeeeeeeee you. This tank is awesome.
@Bjorn the overly, excessively enslaved singaporean 👀
German Soldier: “Look they brought their bicycles to the war.”
Russian Soldier: ._.
Russian soldier: better than your toaster
German general: wtf how is a bicycle beating us , our toasters are being destroyed.
Russian general: (:
The Japanese will do something similar but more practical 20 years later in the invasion of the Malayan peninsula.
Russian Soldier: 1) It's a tricycle. 2) Every nation that's a world power has a bicycle crops in it's army.
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Russian Soldier: As you can see, yours is no exception.
German Soldier: Where did you get that?
Lol
Imagine being a German soldier and just seeing a 9m tall armored bicycle speeding towards you
Hans! Aim sligthly in that direction, one of the shells will hit this thing!
@Kian M they had better tanks than that bicycle
Germans be like :This is totally russian!
Russian: Don't mind that Tsar, it's not like you will be left in the mud someday because you are so impractical
😅
@@theoneandonlyairconditione8110 it wasn’t really impractical tho it was designed with the eastern front in mind where trench warfare was rare and frontlines moved regularly
The fact the Tsar played with it like a toy makes me happy.
Me to
Yeah its feel so wholesome
I wonder if he was allowed to keep it.
@@dontletyourmemesbedreams2355 Yup, he keep it.
When i First Read Your Comment, I was just watching the start and Thought you were talking about the actual Thing
Earth: Impractical design
In a galaxy far away: Here is our New hailfire droid tanks
I hoped someone would recognize the similarity.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought
The Hellfire droid was based on this Tank and Katyusha.
I was thinking the same when I saw this thing.
George Lucas called, he wants his Star Wars trade federation tank designs back
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Whats the title of the song at the background?sounds like Dance of the knights but its not.
@@tristansalagoste4486 From russia with love huma-huma
@@macgyver5110 thank you! I love you so much for this!🤗
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"Hans, we gotz a giant Bicyclez coming inz"
"What ze Scheiße"
Lol
More like Karl or Fritz
@@marcusholloway685 franz
@@budlight2969 Nah, Franz is too Austrian for me
it looks like a 1800's bicycle, you should do a video on the spanish destroyer carbine its cool.
I was amost the first and no one like my joke
Kalle Blixt same
That’s what I was thinking
@@kalleblixt5269 yea you need to be a Alpine king fór IT to be funny
For me it looks like a IG 227 hailfire droid light tank from star wars . I'm pretty sure it was based on the tsar tank design
“What if we combined a bicycle and a gun”
“Sergei that’s a stupid idea I love it”
i think some nations actually did attach MGs to bicycles and used them as "mobile machine gun corps"
@@randomnameseventytwo1307 and rocket launchers too
Italy had whole bicycle units.
"Allow me to introduce, Sergei Kozin! The monster of Magadan!"
You said Sergei and I immediately thought Sergei Kozin from BO1.
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@@pickeljarsforhillary102 so did Japan i think it was mostly nations that didnt have trucks or tanks to use so they threw men on bikes and said "good luck"
"Welcome it's the new vehicle, It sucks, you're gonna love it. "
- Russian engineer Monika Gellerovsky to tsar
Come on, it’s named after you
You gotta love it!
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Very nice this video good like s
To be fair, it predated the British tanks by almost a year and it wasn't a horrible idea for the Eastern front where trenches weren't the norm.
AAAAAAAAAAAA
Honestly if I saw that approaching me on the battlefield I'd be terrified.
Just like a AT-AT
It would probably be like the ww1 version of the London monitor from Wolfenstein
I’m imagining being in a trench on the Eastern Front with my Belgian comrades and then I hear a loud crackling sound….. the sound of this giant bicycle with Russian soldiers advancing with it. What a sight to behold.
It’s like an enemy from the Patapon games
@@koriharpoon3357 now just put 2 multiple rocket launchers and boom thats a hailfire
Broke: Tsar tank
Woke: Death tricycle
Murder Ferris wheel
Diecycle
Wheel of genocide
shootwheel
Steampunk Murder Wagon
This tank looks more like a child's drawing,rather than an actual tank
That is Russia to you
Well, a child dream for a child Tsar.
Honk, lol
@@goose9736 omg I love you
But with artillery and guns
So nobody’s gonna talk about how tsar Nicholas II played with a toy tank for an hour?
He had a whole county on his head, he needed some fun
"No general, I am not playing with it, I'm running it through extensive testing!"
Which should raise red flags to anyone around him.
@@Zamolxes77 Ah, I see what you did there.
@@Zamolxes77 lmfao
*Nikolai:* "So this is the tank. As you might instantly see, it cannot traverse through forest. Basically all the back roads and bridges are too narrow for it also. Forget about transporting it by train without disassembling it first and any maintenance will require no less than a fricking dry dock."
*Tsar:* "Harasho, go build it bois!"
3:39 that's so in line with tsar Nickolas the second's charachter
Ikr
Tbh its pretty cute
@@luki188 True. Nicholas loved to fool around, and hated formalities. However, he was a weak ruler, so... Not a good thing when being an autocrat
@@xeanderman6688 I mean his Father never thought him how to be Tsar and he wasn't prepared for anything so can't blame the guy.
@@xeanderman6688 actualy he wasn't weak. He have the impression he was weak because he had a very relax personality. When he took a desicion normaly he didn't change his mind
Everybody gangsta till robo big wheel pulls up
Omg yes
Straight Gangsta (digs a hole and fills it with mud)
Pissssst . .
hanz?
is sekerit vepon zee mud hole!
I generally hate everybody gangsta til memes but this is fucking amazing
Robo bish
In the rest of the early 20th Century world, you rode on top of a giant bicycle. In Russia, a giant bicycle rode on top of YOU!
"...when it was finally disassembled, and turned into scrap metal." :(
Wished it survived and was on display in a museum somewhere. Would've been interesting to see the interior of that thing.
@@rixille even if it had survived i dont think itd be safe enough to have a guy go in to take pictures/record video sadly
Foreshadowing the end of Tsardom.
@@rixille How are you supposed to store a 17.8m long, 9m high and 12m wide tank?
@@noodled6145 building
3:39 well it looks like a toy I actually think this could’ve been a fun toy nowadays people are more interested in technology myself included
@@ivanrios4110 yes it looks so fun
Well now I want one
@@ianfinrir8724 same bro
Still think battlefield 1 should of made this as a behemoth with the Russian DLC
Have they added K-wagen or LK-I/II yet?
@@jirikajzar3247 they quit expanding on it
@@aptguard7989 I think they made mistake with adding shitton of prototype weapons yet only few tanks...
They might go back to it
@@IvanPlayyz no reason too ...... they milked all the cash they could from it and have moved on a new BF will arrive next year probably
Shoot dude, i am shocked it wasnt rubber band powered given the rest of it.
Lmao
George Lucas called, he wants his Star Wars trade federation tank designs back
Lmao hailfire droids
weren't hailfire droids made by the Banking Clans?
@@Sumschmuck CIS
@@Sumschmuck Wasn't talking about hailfire droids, hail fire droids look very different to this...
@@crazysilly2914 1. The banking clans were part of the CIS
2. Which tanks then because the Trade Federation only really had AATs and MTTs
0:40 WoT has 600+ "historically accurate" tanks...
*war thunder players have entered the chat and would like to know your location*
I especially love premium tanks that are historically accurate and over powered af
Historically accurate tanks that were never even considered due to stupidity of their design and modelled after a single strip of blueprint allegedly found in a Argos toilet after a renovation
@@Journey_Awaits tHe E100 hAd A SqUaRe TurReT says wargaming
*Armored Warfare players have entered the chat and would like to know your location. *
Ironic they brag about it I reinstalled the game after a break when I was burned out and I find the removed like 30
Tanks from the game every single tier 2 like bruh
Russia: Creates a Ferris Wheel funny looking tank
Austria Hungary: *So you have chosen death*
Russia: *Uno Reverse Card,blyat*
@@_lordtachanka_2314 *Dance of the Knights goes even louder*
Brusilov wants to know your location
You’re not funny.
@@colonel1003 Shut up meg
The Tsar playing with the tank and the books sounds exactly like me as a kid playing with a little battery powered bulldozer.
Yeah same lmao
"Behold, The Tsar tank!"
"Nicholas, This has been the third time you brought a Tricycle to show and Tell."
Your majesty, we just need a disabled giant to defeat the enemy. We've already made the wheel chair!
Lol
Somebody should rebuild this tank, just for schitt's and giggles 🤔
Someone did
@@Leatherface123. *NANI?*
@@Leatherface123. sooooo
Mind telling us where and who?
Elon Musk
There is a life size replica in the T-34 Museum just outside Moscow
This tank cant even be compared to the mighty bob semple tank
I would say this is even more ridiculous than the bob semple tanks
bob semple jokes are the big chungus of the tank world. Please, move on.
Ey saif!
@@worldwarstopmotionstudio eyyy Whats up world war stopmotion studio.
Honestly, The Tsar Tank is better then the Bob Semple Tank.
Russian: Tsar Tank.
Everyone else: Tsar *DANK* .
Me : Tsar Bomba
No
@@__________________________3395 yes
@@__________________________3395 your name tag is brilliant 🤣🤣👍
Super! I love seeing interesting historical vehicles.
There's also the Kugelpanzer.
Me to
The tank is hmm interesting
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Never heard ofnthis before..im 46 years old and a former machine designer.
The average Russian bicycle.
Yes with guns
Bi-Cycle or Tri-Cycle ?
@@MoskusMoskiferus1611 Well thier version turned out to be a Try-Cycle as it got stuck in the mud and cancelled.
Italy will take 10,000 of those!
Big front weel
Germans: advanced engineering with heavy armor and good firepower
Russians: Wheel. Gun.
"advanced engineering with heavy armor and good firepower" Certainly *not* during WWI.
Bob semple: "You dare challenge me?"
Bob Semple tank: ah yes, *another tank that’s not a tank*
Eh that looks like at least like a tank
The guy narrating this kinda sounds like Charlie Sheen.
Bob Semple: Well I don't see anyone else in New Zealand coming up with any bright ideas!
WHY WONT THIS GIRL OR WHATEVER STOP SPAMMING IN MY COMMENT
@@secondlieutenan because it’s a bot
"so,how should we design this tank?"
Levedenko: *W H E E L*
I would love to see someone build a full-size, working replica. What a beautifully-strange machine.
1:43 - How do you explain the smaller wheel spinning slower than the large one tho? lol
I would be beyond terrified if I saw that thing coming my way.
Same. Although it does look silly, it also looks like something you’d find in a horror movie or something.
Yes they should remake this for riot control. Mount a firefighting water cannon on it but filled with pepperspray instead and a gun for rubber bullets and plastic buckshot less lethal rounds.
@@KandiKlover that thing would make the word "riot" un-exist
@@KandiKlover to big for a city
@@capncake8837
It was. Look at Episode 2, the Droid Army had the Hellfire launcher that was a giant wheeled single shot carrier
"This episode is brought to you by world of tanks"
Gets a Warthunder ad when the video starts
These two games are ALWAYS going to try and compete
Me play world of tanks blitz mobile : Ok
fun fact : Wotb player more huge than Wot
@@kgcmrlsrneverything1080 wtf
Whats the title of the song at the background?sounds like Dance of the knights but its not.
i prefered WOT that WT because my eyes dont work in WT even in arcade battles
"600+ historically accurate tanks"
>historically accurate
>WoT
lmao
It's historically accurate. At least the tanks are. I checked out the Maus based on SH's Maus video and it fits like a puzzle piece. They ARE the same. The only difference is that secondary guns don't work on WoT and they picked the 128 + 75 mm variant.
Teacher: *points at the Tsar Tank* What is this?
Smart kid: The Ts...
Me: Pizzacutter
Teacher: *A+*
Use to play this game on the 360, called “Toy Soldiers”. It was a tower defense game where you placed many types of toy soldiers. (LMG, Motars, etc) This tank is one of the bosses for that game and that’s how I know about it.
I have this game and wow it is good and it has the TSAR TANK
France: *Made the Char 2C*
United Kingdom: *Made the Little Wille*
Germany: *Made the K-Wagen*
Russia: *Made a Giant Tricycle with Guns*
A Giant Tricycle of Destruction.
*UK makes Little Willie*
*Other people make tanks*
*UK makes Big Willie and uses it more than Little Willie*
6:43
"Son, I am disappoint."
"Heinz! Was ist das dahinter!"
"Es sieht aus wie ein Fahrrad Klaus!"
This thing is right there with Hitler's Mausse Tank and Churchill's Ice aircraft Carrier on the "How high these leaders were when they signed up to these projects?".
*Hitlers Maus
The ice that was going to be used in the aircraft carrier is no ordinary ice, it's a ice that can deflect bullets!
It was supposed to be ratte but since it was never enter the prototype phase so maus is a good one
@@blitzkriegc1112 First, the P1000 Ratte was a completely different design and second:the maus DID enter prototype phase and two were built, which one of can be seen at the Kubinka tank museum in russia
@@krisanludwiczak6377 i know they make 2 of them
I think I saw some of those at the Battle of Geonosis
The hailfire tank droids are probably a bit inspired by tsar tanks but are still very different
Thank god i'm not the only one who thought that lmao.
Imagine playing World of tanks and then a Madlad in Tzar tank comes Charging towards you
It seems like WW1 in general had a lot of throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck.
Throw a tree branch in the wheels😂
Chris J if it was actually created you could just throw a steel beam in there and it would probably break
@@eggbois6957 a couple just to be safe.
Probably gonna need an entire tree
WoT "historically accurate" tanks
Also WoT: introduces mercenary tanks.
Tell that to those up against the Clown Cars...
"historically accurate"
proceeds to onehit a Tiger I with a Sherman.....
just play war thunder instead. Wot is ridicilous
@@fidelklckap1821I got a crap pc tho...
I hate how the game is pay to play now I used to love that game
“Hey you know those funny bicycles with the large front wheel that people used to ride?”
“...yeah?”
“...let’s make a tank like that!”
Imagine this huge bicycle tank tower rolling up to the battlefield,with the kalinka music...
And then getting a 1shot after 30 seconds. :D
it may be weird, but it dosen’t even come close to the mighty Bob Simple tank
"If he manage to put the tank in serial production he beleive russia will be a step ahead of their enemy"
Well duh the wheel made more like 40 steps
I miss this voice actor. Keep this guy. Let him voice everything
tsar nicolas playing with it like a toy is the cutest thing ive ever heard simple history ever say.
"A step ahead"
More like a wheel ahead
"The Tsar Tank"
Me: Is that an artillery?
3:38 that would be such a cool toy to have as a kid , i absolutely get why the king would play with it
soldier1: watch out for any bicycles
soldier2: why its just a bicycle
soldier1: Dont Underestimate Bicycles!
Fun fact: The Tsar tank was one of two inspirations for the well-known Hail-Fire Droid from Star Wars, the other being the Katyusha rocket artillery truck.
Every other country: "NO! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! A TANK CAN'T HAVE BIG WHEELS!"
Russian Empire: "Haha, wheels go Brrrrrr."
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They say the Tsar is still waiting for that toy he invested in on his first Go Fund Me. He never heard back from them...
Imagine the tank is not only able to climb obstacles, but also capable of doing wheelie
I love the story and the design of the tsar dank just from the POV of new technology and new ideas colliding with reality and known physics.
3:39 I think this is actually kinda wholesome
You see Yuri when tank looks stupid enemy will laff too hard to shoot back
“Laff” lol
For some reason, I read that with a russian accent.
@@MIMthegreat that was indeed my goal
when they build a weird wonky cycle tank but they still lost the war
Bruh.
Suggestion: Weirdly designed military vehicles that were actually efective
Engineer: So what type of tank do you want?
Nikolai: *You see that bicycle over there?*
When I first saw it, a year ago, I thought WHAT IS THAT ?!
Apparently...a "bat"..?
A Russian bob sample. Before the bob sample even existed.
Mother Russia's finest
@@thepeskyone I like everything from Mother Russia 😍
1:06 the start of the video
Thank you kind bunny
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
I was confused because I thought the title said “The Strongest Tank Ever?” Lol
Thank you for making a video on this tank! :D
The two things that come to mind when I see the Tsar tank
1: "Nonne Bosschen Wood" level in Toy Soldiers
2: Why wasn't this a behemoth in BF1? Would've been an awesome behemoth for Galicia and/or Volga River
1 I have toy soldiers that has THE TSAR TANK
And 2 it should’ve been in BF1 in the first place because everyone would be like what abomination is this thing
@@usadroopymeat1099 Except, we just got another armored train
@@IkeFanBoy64 yep they just botched that opportunity imagine everybody’s reaction to it they are are what abomination is this thing
pls make more strange tanks this is so interesting!
Ah, yes. The Russian Bob Semple. Its power was so great the designers feared it would delete the universe just by turning on.
The only weapon capable to surpass the Metal Ratte.
6:45 "Big wheels keep on turning" -lynyrd skynyrd
Proud Mary keeps on burning
MAN the Russians do really know how to make tanks 😂😂
T-34, SU-7, T90, T-14 Armata and thats not even all the Russians had great tanks
@mohammedpilote669 haddad 3 of them are but don’t act like there is a sea of difference
@mohammedpilote669 haddad I dare to bet that the same applies for the Russian Empire which had controle of the same nations the USSR controlled so there is little difference there to
@mohammedpilote669 haddad Russia and Soviet union same country Russia the main Republic of the Soviet union Soviet union created by the Russian Empire Russia has always been the Soviet union
@mohammedpilote669 haddad Russian federation is just smaller because they lost a lot of land
0:06 I really liked that he put a tokarev pistol in his left arm
This looks like something out of Iron Harvest
3:40 shows how wholesome the Tsar was but just lacked the ability to help his people
Sadly he was. It didn't help that he was naive too.
Russia so badly needed a constitutional monarchy with a parliament system, TBH even today they do.
Then he got replaced by guy who made unhappiness go to zero by killing unhappy people :D
Had to be Russia who developed this tank.
თუმცა
Well Polish jokes don't apply as well in WWI
I love that Nicolas played with the tank model
Imagine the Tsar tank getting destroyed by the one thing it was made to counter
Legends say that the tank projekt also was sponored by World of Tanks.
I thought that said “the Strongest Tank ever?”
I thought the same thing
@Alec Brucker Look what we have here, a Semple Simp.
@@zacharyrollick6169 not only a simp. A dummy
*Shoots its wheel with a tank destroyer
"What did you just said ?"
@@raynornayaka4115 it was a joke.
3:58 the la beasts main song
Russians: >Tsar tank
Germans: "bro we might have used too much speed"
The Tsar tank is silly, but they gave respect to the Czar name by naming it after the most powerful nuke in existence. 50 megatons of death.
Bob Semple Tank: Ah, finally a worthy opponent.
nah the bob semple tank would obliterate this
Our battle will be lengendary
Imagine bf5 adding this tank
So funny 😐
The Tsar Tank would fail, because it wasnt a semple design
“Hey look theres a funny looking bicycle near us”
“Hans that’s not near us”
5:26, ngl this is glorious
That’s the strangest tank I have ever seen. It’s basically a bicycle with armor and cannons.