Half-sized chariot that can be driven by students

It seems that students at Kettering University, an engineering university, made their own drivable tanks. Tanks are carrying caterpillars properly, and it is also possible to turn 360 degrees.

It seems that it is quite full-scale, about 2 years in the production period, about 1 million yen is spent on the total production cost.

Details are as below. The tank runs at a maximum speed of about 20 miles by a 3 cylinder diesel engine.
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Will Foster, a student at Kettering University, started producing tanks about two years ago. When he was driving a tank nearby, he sometimes called a neighbor to a police officer. He told the police he told me that he went home while laughing that he had never seen such a thing.

Mr. Foster designed the tank at the age of 14, but there was no money to actually make up. The tank seems to be made of about 2000 dollars (about 200,000 yen) parts, but there are trial and error many times before completion, totaling about 10,000 dollars (about 1 million yen) That's right.

Because Japan has a narrow land, few people make themselves with such large size moving objects,Person who used combine as a tankIt seems to enter Gifu.