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Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built. Only two hulls and one turret were completed before the testing grounds were captured by the advancing Soviet forces.Type Super-heavy tank
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Production history
Produced 1944
Number built 2 (of which 1 incomplete)
Specifications
Weight 188 Tons
Length 10.2 metres (33 ft 6 in)
Width 3.71 metres (12 ft 2 in)
Height 3.63 metres (11 ft 11 in)
Crew 6
Armour 460 mm (18 in) (in the area of the mantlet)
250 mm (9.8 in) (mantlet)
240 mm (9.4 in) (turret front)[1]
220 mm (8.7 in) (turret side and rear, and hull front)
210 mm (8.3 in) (turret front behind the mantlet)
200 mm (7.9 in) (hull front)[1] 190 mm (7.5 in) (hull side and rear)
Main
armament 128 mm (5 in) KwK 44 gun L/55
(32 rounds)
Secondary
armament 75 mm (3 in) KwK 44 gun L/36.5
(co-axial) (200 rounds)
7.92 mm MG34 machine gun
Engine MB509 V12 petrol engine, DB 603 derivative (V1)
MB 517 V12 diesel engine (V2)
1080 hp
1200 hp (895 kW)
Power/weight 6.4 hp/t
Ground clearance 500 mm (20 in)
Fuel capacity 2,700 litres (590 imp gal; 710 US gal) (internal fuel tank)
1,500 litres (330 imp gal; 400 US gal) (external fuel tank)
Operational
range 160 km (99 mi) (road)
62 km (39 mi) (off road)
Speed 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
It's not much bigger than Tiger, or other tanks, so where does it take so much weight? Just by gun and armor?
I think so.
remeber if you scale something up two times it weights 8 times as much, you only need to make it 1.2 times bigger (at all directions) to give it the double weight, and the Maus is more then 1.2 times bigger then King Tiger in most ways you can compare those two. The point is that the whole volume of the tank is more then the double of a KT, and hence that the mass is to is nothing strange.
amazings :0
ww2 tanks would only dream of taking this super heavy head on sad it was so heavy and impractical and allied air superiority would not of made things any better for it.
I read the Reds actualy found a punch of finished turrets in some forrest that were dumped a pitty there wasnt any actual fighting except for those rumours
And here we have, the biggest heavy tank in WW2 history!
bitch please
-the biggest tank in all of history.
Like a Maus.
You gotta love German engineering =D
I guess that the germans where ironic when they named the tank Maus.
That is one ugly Son of a *****.