XR-99 Ivan

Model number: XR-99
Code name(s): Ivan (USSR); Doshka (UN reporting name)
Unit type: military labor
Manufacturer: Kronstadt Tank Works/Leningrad Science Academy
Operator: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Rollout: May 1999 AD
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in main body
Dimensions: overall height 7.50 meters; overall width 17.00 meters
Weight: standard 14.26 metric tons; full 9.00 metric tons
Armor materials: fiber reinforced plastic, aluminum
Powerplant: unknown
Maximum weight lifting capacity: 27.60 metric tons
Minimum revolving radius: 4.11 meters
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 40mm rapid firing machine gun, fire-linked, mounted on main body; automatic loading 76mm main cannon, fire-linked, mounted on forward section of main body
Optional fixed armaments: surface-to-air missile launcher

The XR-99 Ivan (aka Doshka) was a tank-like military labor produced by the USSR. Walking on four legs, the Ivan was armed with a 40mm machine gun and 76mm main cannon. When Gen. Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanovsky decided to defect from the Soviet Union, he arranged to smuggle a pair of Ivans across the Sea of Japan to the harbor city of Sakata. Ivanovsky’s defection attracted the attention of spy agencies from several governments, along with the environmental terrorist group Home of the Sea. Ivanovsky’s defection and an attempted theft by terrorist Ichoku Inubashiri were foiled by the Tokyo police’s SV2 labor unit.

Pilot(s): Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanovsky, Ichoku Inubashiri
First appearance: Mobile Police Patlabor
Original mechanical designer: Yutaka Izubuchi

Cockpit

Rear view