By the beginning of the war he was able to achieve full performance and reliability of the propulsion of his design. Kegress built and tested in 1909 high speed. The first semi-tracked vehicle in the world, or “all-terrain vehicle trailers”, head of the technical part of His Majesty’s garage, Ensign A. After all, Russia at that time did not have a developed automobile industry. However, to start the production of armored cars in Russia, one order was not enough. By this, the Minister of War 'laid the foundation for the existence of armored cars' in Russia. On August 19, 1914, the Minister of War, Adjutant General Sukhomlinov, summoned Colonel Dobrzhansky of the Eger Regiment Life Guards Regiment, who had been assigned to the office of the War Ministry and invited him to form an “armored machine-gun battery”. Therefore, having compiled information about the use of German and domestic production at the front of the bron-automobiles, as well as information about similar machines from the allies, the Russian military department raised the question of the expediency of deploying the factory production of such machines. Armored cars of their design at that time were made by many, but they were used in different ways. Thus, in August, the officer of the 5th Automobile Company, Captain Bazhanov, reserved an Italian SPA truck with the shields of captured German guns, which was later armed with two machine guns and used in battles of units of the 25th Infantry Division. Russian armored cars appeared spontaneously at the front, as a response measure to the German initiative. The reason for this is the absence in the country of a formed military-industrial complex (available, for example, in Germany), and also the fact that Russian geniuses more often worked alone, and by hook or by crook, through their pure enthusiasm, pierced their work in government offices. Tsarist Russia, in many discoveries ahead of other powers, squandered a lot of know-how that could strengthen its military power. The outstanding achievements of the Russian mind were wasted and wasted easily, becoming a victim of unsatisfactory administration. The Great War led the designers and the military to the idea that in order to crack the enemy’s defense, armies need weapons that will be protected by armor and will be able to self-advance.

Russian engineering minds were already grappling with the idea of mobile armor long before the tank made its battlefield debut.

The earliest tanks appeared just before the Great War in different countries.

The Great War was a catalyst for new ideas in military engineering, including armored technology.

Russian modern tank design