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No, not the one from popular video game.
Come to find, back in 1948, Kotin's construction bureau designed a tank, equipped with dual Tesla coils. Tank was fully electrical, as in - propelled by electrical motors. Power supply was a portable - yes - nuclear reactor designed by Kurchatov's bureau. Power output was 0.9 MWt.
Dual Tesla coils created a channel of ionized air reaching out up to 4.5 km, with several thousand amperes of striking force.
Entire idea was to fry opponent tank electrical everything and then simply pick it up, replace electronics, and possibly reuse.
Believe it or not, probing grounds real tank tests were done 1951 through 1954 and then, for reason unknown to anyone, tank was dismantled and idea abandoned upon Khrushchev personal order.
It's Kotin's bureau. Modified T34. That's why it looks kinda small. I think I figured why Khrushchev shut it down though. Man was obsessed with rockets and did not believe into anything else.
But what is amazing is not even the coil guns. Germans had those on their Ananerde flying saucers. Amazing is that at that time, they already had a working small nuclear reactor.
I think if they said 4.5 striking range - that must have been quite impressive.
Mr K. also shut down several very promising and futuristic projects, once again, because it was rockets or bust.
It's Kotin's bureau. Modified T34. That's why it looks kinda small. I think I figured why Khrushchev shut it down though. Man was obsessed with rockets and did not believe into anything else.
But what is amazing is not even the coil guns. Germans had those on their Ananerde flying saucers. Amazing is that at that time, they already had a working small nuclear reactor.
I think if they said 4.5 striking range - that must have been quite impressive.
Mr K. also shut down several very promising and futuristic projects, once again, because it was rockets or bust.
They "claim" they had the working reactor.
Given the sheer number of problems they had with their submarine nuclear reactors well into the 1960s - even without considering the accidents, they were very finicky, leaky and dangerous to the crews during normal operation - I very much doubt they would have a working tank reactor in 1948. Looks more like a far-shot concept.
Btw, there was no "electronics" to fry in a WW2 era tank. Perhaps the radios. The diesel powered tanks didn't even need a spark once they were going, and to the best of my knowledge the turret rotation mechanisms were mostly hydraulic.
Sorry but I'm thinking this was a concept weapon that they couldn't get off the ground.
It gets put into a video game and so on and so forth.
Unless somebody can pony up some old footage of one shooting out energy beams.....I'm going to be skeptical to say the least.
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