Hitler's Monster Tanks
Learn about the history behind the development of the German tank program in this clip from Nazi Mega Weapons: Super Tanks. Hitler's obsession with giant guns and tanks began as a Corporal in WWI, which led to the construction of the Panzer tank. Its speed and power spawned a new word, Blitzkrieg, or "Lightning War."
Hitler's Monster Tanks
Midway through World War II, Nazi Germany decided to take its huge 128-millimeter antiaircraft gun and stick it on its biggest, baddest tank. The result was the monstrous Jagdtiger ("Hunting.
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PANZER 1000: The Ratte was described as a 'Landkreuzer' due to its enormous size (Image: NATGEO) Crewed by 40 dedicated Nazis and armed with guns designed to be mounted on the Third Reich's battleships, the tank was designed to secure Nazi dominance in WW2. The Ratte was to be clad in ten inches of steel, so thick no land-based allied.
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In the midst of World War II, Hitler pushed for the creation of one of the most powerful, and least practical, weapons of all time: the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte.. The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte would have been the largest, heaviest tank ever created. Weighing 1,000 tons, five times the weight of the heaviest tank ever built, and measuring 115 feet long, the Ratte was a testament to overkill.
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18 km/h (11 mph) (average road speed) [1] Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: 'mouse') was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed, the turret being attached before the testing.
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The sight of a Tiger tank is unforgettable—a 60-ton monster twice as big as a Sherman and 10 times more frightening. Somewhere in the woods beyond the meadow the grinding din grows so loud it nearly drowns out the noise of breaking tree trunks. German troops emerge from the forest, so the Americans take cover.
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The earliest development of the Panzer VIII Maus super heavy tank started in 1941, when Krupp began studies of super heavy Soviet tanks such as the KV series. In early 1942, Krupp produced designs of a hybrid Tiger/Maus prototype, which eventually became the PzKpfw. VIII, and another super heavy design, the predecessor of the Maus, known as the.
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Leopard 2A5s of the German Army (Heer). This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the Bundeswehr.
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Hitler's megalomaniacal impulses led him to demand the construction of the largest tank the world had ever seen - a mobile fortress weighing 180 tons. But even this colossus couldn't satisfy.
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The Tiger I tank is probably the most famous German tank of World War 2 but it is an early example of how obsession with size and brilliant engineering led to overall failure.. Building big things appears to be an obsession in authoritarian governments and the Tiger came out of this behaviour. The idea of a heavily armoured 'breakthrough' tank had circulated for years but lighter, faster.
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The Sd Kfz 173 Jagdpanther was Germany's greatest tank destroyer of the Second World War. An idea that came from Hitler himself, the Jagdpanther combined the reliable Panther tank chassis with the immense firepower of the PAK 43 88mm gun. Despite its few numbers, the Jagdpanther made a big impression on the Allies in Normandy and the Eastern.
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The T-28, at 86 tons, was the largest tank destoryer the U.S. considered fielding in WWII, but it would not have been a match for Hitler's Ratte. The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte, if it had been built, would have been 115 feet in length, 45 feet wide and towered 36 feet - almost four stories - into the sky.
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Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs used in World War II.In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. German tanks were an important part of the Wehrmacht and played a fundamental role during the whole war, and especially in the blitzkrieg battle strategy. In the subsequent more troubled and prolonged campaigns, German tanks proved to be.
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The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was one such weapon. It was impractical and also huge — so huge it holds the record for the heaviest fully-enclosed tank ever built. The Maus weighed 180 metric.