Panzer VIII Maus image - Tank Lovers Group

Perhaps the largest tank ever built, but nobody really knows. Weighing in at over 192 tons the maus is huge,and larger then my mother.With a 128 mm KwK44 L/55 cannon and a co-axial 75 mm KwK 44 L/36.5 cannon.The maus has armor over 240 mm thick in some places.Look at the cute little panzer 4 next to the maus.Despite this being a video game screenshot the maus is real. The germans made it during WWII, far to heavy to have been used in combat,due to the fact that it crushed bridges, cracked windows and utterly destroyed road's wherever it went.With a top speed of 8 MPH the Maus did not work well with blitzkrieg tactics. The only time the maus was used in combat was a last ditch defense of its factory. The only surviving maus is in the kubinka tank muesam. Oh and for you comand and conquer fans, this tank was originally to receive the name Mammoth, but it was changed to mouse.