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Tanks were designed to change the course of wars. But not all designs were successful. Some were too heavy, others too slow, and still others existed only on paper, striking in their absurdity. Today, we'll recall the most useless and bizarre tanks in history and examine why they never became true weapons of victory. Mendeleev's Tank: The Land Dreadnought of the Russian Empire Thirty years before German engineers created the 188-ton Maus, the Russian Empire conceived something no less monumental. In 1911, Vasily Mendeleev—an engineer and the son of the creator of the periodic table of chemical elements and the alleged inventor of vodka—developed designs for a machine that simply cannot be called a "tank." It was a veritable land fortress. To understand the scale of Mendeleev's engineering audacity, just look at the specifications of his brainchild: Weight: About 170 tons. The later British "Rhombus" Mark I weighed a modest 28 tons, while the formidable Tiger of World War II weighed 57 tons. Armament: A 120-mm naval gun in the bow and a scattering of machine guns for mopping up infantry. The firepower of this thing was supposed to obliterate any fortifications. Armor: Up to 150 mm frontal and 100 mm side armor. In 1911, when armored vehicles essentially didn't exist, such figures seemed completely fantastic.