Originally posted by Yoshimbo
that's one big fat tank:eek:
good grief like a 60 ton block o' steel with a gun welded to it:lol
It's a Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus. Try closer to 188 tonnes, with a 128mm main gun, and 75mm coax. Planned top speed: 20kph, actual: 13kph. They were planned for a 150-200 tank production run, but only 9 were in various states of completion when the war ended. Front armor was 200m, 180mm sides, and 160mm rear. The turret had a beefy 240mm front, and 200mm sides.
Never saw combat. The V1 prototype didn't even have a working turret. It was sabotaged by the Germans & later captured by the Russians. The V2 prototype broke down on the way to Berlin for the last ditch defense, and the crew destroyed it. The one in the pic is the V1 prototype hull, with the working V2 turret, courtesy of the Russians dragging them home and cobbling it together for testing.
Woulda been absolutely useless on offensives... but would make a pretty mean mobile pillbox.