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Now that's a landship! I wonder what kind of fuel economy you'd get in that thing. Not great in the city probably.
The smaller edition which weighed 188 tons and which they did actually build a couple prototypes of, had a for-real problem that it was difficult to find a motor powerful enough to drive the thing but small enough to fit inside it. It wound up going 8 mph.
They probably would have gone with jet engines in the end.