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The Vezdekhod (Russian: Вездеход) was the first true tank to be developed in the Russian Empire. The word Vezdekhod means "anywhere goer" and in modern Russian means "all-terrain vehicle". The initial project was indeed an ATV. It did not however progress further than a pre-production model, due to problems in the design.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Porokhovschikov (Russian: Александр Александрович Пороховщиков) (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1941) was a Russian and Soviet military engineer, tank and aircraft inventor from Saint Petersburg, known mostly for the development of Vezdekhod, the world's first tank (resembling the modern tankette) in 1914–1915.
Nikolay Popov, designed the first operational gas turbine tank T-80; Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, inventor of Vezdekhod (Russias first prototype continuous track tank, or tankette, and the first Russian continuous track amphibious ATV)
Below is a list of tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles of the Russian empire, Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. Imperial Russia, World War I [ edit ]
first fully gas turbine main battle tank [126] T-80 main battle tank: Aleksandr Porokhovschikov (1892 – c. 1942) Russian Empire Soviet Union: Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first continuous track amphibious ATV) [127] Vezdekhod tank in 1915: Alexander Procofieff de Seversky (1894–1974) Russian Empire United States
Imperial Russia had flirted with some designs such as the Tsar Tank which was scrapped, and the Vezdekhod (Вездеход) which did not progress further than a pre-production model due to problems in the design. The final tank designs in World War I showed a number of trends such as in the US and British produced Mark VIII tank for heavy tanks.
Tsar Tank; V. Vezdekhod This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 12:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. ... two-man Vezdekhod and the huge Lebedenko, but neither ...