The Nazi Mouse - The Biggest Tank Ever Made
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Bigger is better, or at least that's what Hitler thought when he had commissioned the world's largest tank ever to be built in an effort to crush the Allied forces. The Nazi Mouse, or Panzer VIII Maus, was a behemoth of a tank, and if Hitler had his way, it would have won him the war.
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Maus: Most heavy tank in history
Goliath: One of the most smallest in history
Ironic names isn't it?
Is tonk
Ah yes germans and humor
A perfect fit
Just like Greenland and Iceland, they were probably called that way to be misleading
Very ironic.
Goliath wasn't a tank, it was a tracked mine...
*T-34 shots bounces off the armor of the maus*
War Thunder logic:
"I dont have such weakness."
Ah yes, *Gaijin's RUSSIAN BIAS*
Ok
@@solewindxii nah, there is no russian bias, trust me. Yes, miracles happen, but thats in most of vehicles.
@@rali7583 theres no bias, just battle rating unbalance
how do i get MAUS now?
I like how the Nazis had a sense of humor about naming the tank.
Don't forget about Ratte p1000
U should get at least 1000 likes
Ratte and maus🤣
It's a strategic advantage
It was a tactical maneuver. The idea was to get the Americans to think that mouse=small light tank, and then not be prepared for a massive bunker on tracks. The Americans would have just called for air support anyways so :/
It's always amusing to me when a weapon has an ironic name. It's like calling the nuclear missile 'The Peacemaker'.
Well that is what they do...
More like calling the bomb on Hiroshima "little boy"
Well I mean, wouldn't a country wanna surrender after getting nuked
there'll be peace afterward
Not very ironic considering that is exactly what they do. Literally every country that has one keeps the peace by ensuring an aggressive war against them ends in MAD. For as destructive as the weapon is, it quite ironically is responsible for the absence of WW3 and quite possibly the continued peace that all of us have been enjoying for almost 80 years.
Germans: We need more tanks! We are losing!
Hanz: *Use ze mouse with bigger kannon.*
They had more panzer tanks in 1942 than they did in 41, and again in 43 than in 42. The biggest problem was they didn't have the fuel to run them. They ran out of oil.
@@luthoro3700 yes.
And when they were fighting the Soviets, oil in the ranks would freeze.
@@Korearxhxujddidbvdss That was why they invaded the soviet union in the first place. They needed the oil of the Caucasus mountains. But Hitler's generals disagreed with him on where to focus their efforts, some of them wanted to push toward Moscow believing they could defeat Russia the same way they did France, so they ended up dividing their forces on the eastern front and stretching themselves too thin.
Aircraft: I have lost faith in their tank designs
It might have stoped enemy tank shells, but it still would've rang like the loudest bell the crews ever heard
Taco bell sound
Even if u became deaf u would still be alive.
@@Hi-vo9ku there's a thing called 'sign language'.
It'll probably be like standing under the world's largest bell while it's ringing
@@suryamukherji4943
Yea, because not being able to hear anything while in an active warzone is no big deal, right?
Being the biggest means you're also the biggest target.
-*Bismarck* probably
Sad Tirpitz noises
Stroynoy flugzug: Hold mein sauerkraut
Are they even have a brave to fight me, little girl??
Schreiber
Panzer Maus
But being small doesn't mean youre a longer exist target xaxaxa 😂
@@magnum6763 yeah they dint even use the tripitz just parked in Norway and used it as a huge AA battery to farm airplane kills and the Bri'sh used it as bombing practice
The most vulnerable part of any tank is the treads. Take out the treads and it can't move
It could still fire its weapons but unable to move, it is a sitting duck
The same thing happened to the German battleship Bismark. the rudder was stuck at an angle and it could only tun in circles until it was sunk
The tracks are also very thick, and they’re protected by the frontal and flanking hull armor, which is low enough that tanks can’t snipe it.
@@chatterycasque9594 I wasn't talking about the tracks so much as the road wheels inside the tracks
You get those even a little misaligned, it will throw the tracks
Sir but the track on the maus in case you have never seen is 4 inches thick at its thinnest you would need a lot more than high explosive ego destroy it especially since the only way to fire upon it is from the front because the sides are protected by armour which puts you directly in front of the 280 mm SLOPED armor which gives an effective thickness of about 9 inches…. Also if you happened to even see a maus I would just drive away let it break down much better than fighting it correction I meant to say 14-16
Imagine the field maintenance required.
@@normalbird1139 depends on which part. If it's the tracks which are broken, gg then. You can't repair it
In reality the Maus was way too expensive and costly to produce, and by the time the Maus had entered production Germany’s resources were very depleted. What’s more, the tank was way too slow and bulky, you could expect constant breakdowns and mechanical failures. The Maus also made an excellent practice target for allied planes.
It was just a prototype, the final product would be great.
@@eliasl332 great for Allied CAS
The Germans were amazing at utilizing underpowered trasmissions in their tanks so the maus was gonna have even more problems than the panther given it's crazy extra weight.
Which is why you mount a Flakvierling 38 on the roof.
To take care of those pesky aircraft while the tank below takes care of the pesky everything else.
The Germans had a nice amount of airpower, and at the height of Germany, during 1940 to early 1941, this tank would have done wonders
"the Maus would never need to run from a fight though"
Allied bombers: are you sure about that?
Name one ground vehicle that can run away from bombers
@@eliasl332 run? No. Easy to hide? Yes
@@eliasl332 *EBR 1954*
@@eliasl332 bugatti
@@bismarckaa1665 nope
'King Tiger' is technically a mistranslation. Yes, 'konig' and 'tiger' translate to 'king' and 'tiger' respectively but in German the combination that was used for the Tiger II tank 'Konigstiger' actually means Bengal tiger.
And what does Bengal mean
@@DeliveryTank A region in the Indian subcontinent which is today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).
@@DeliveryTank it's a tiger subspecies found in the region of bengal (indian sub-continent)
@@fajrulnaufal Bengal tigers are a subspecies bengal is region
@@swathisajja5615 thats what I said..
the equipment they had at that time is really impressive.
Yeah I'd agree with you if I was a caveman . . .
Aliens 😳
Literally a normal tank, but bigger so pretty cool but not impressive
German military technology was superior in pretty much every way. They created the first jet engine, the first automatic rifles, the list goes on. Some of their wunderwaffe were a waste of money and resources but some of them really could've turned the tide had they been able to get them into production in decent numbers. In the end they lost because they ran out of resources, mainly oil.
@@luthoro3700 I’m not disagreeing brother, I’m just saying this particular one isn’t really “impressive”
The infographics: **shows T 34 85** (has a 85mm cannon)
The infographics again: **76mm gun has a no chance against the Maus**
What about the Side or Rear armor of the Maus?
But would it really matter tho?
@@mystyle_jm8997 side was 200mm
Max apbc pen in 76mm is 102mm
Max apcr pen in 85mm is 195mm
They were so intimidated their cannons shrunk.
@@slavplays9407 Side is 185mm rear 150
reminds me of when i stripped a civic to bare bones and then had no defrost for winter. that 5 lbs sure helped it go faster into back of a parked car
sounds like cap to me.
@@iwantsomecereal..orsomethi3767doesnt sound like cap to me
Just so you know, fight in begging is imagined, maus never saw combat and was never finished
What?
I believe u meant beginning instead of begging
There were 2 Mauses one was bombed the other one wasn’t finished
Yea, one didn’t have a real turret, but had a real hull but the second hull was utterly destroyed and he turret was fine
this channel is lying sometimes
1200 horsepower sounds shockingly low for something that big and heavy
Here's the challenge: find railway wagons big enough to carry Maus tanks to the front. Find bridges strong enough to allow them to cross major rivers. Create a logistics train capale of, for instance, assured supplies of fuel to keep them moving.
1 maus means less tanks means less fuel to make 1 move, and it pretty much could be shipped by specialized wagons very well and it also can cross all train bridges because most steam locomotives weighted around 100-300 tonnes and their freight was even heavier
Have enough resources to make more than 2
The Nazis undoubtedly understood these logistical aspects, op. The Nazis also had plenty of resources to construct the Maus, commenter.
The issue was total war in multiple theaters with two major opponents capable of outperforming the Nazis and several major powers in supportive roles (mostly) withstanding the onslaught.
The Americans and Soviets were simply able to overcome the Nazis and the Axis because of their abilities to produce both more war weapons and soldiers-especially when augmented by allies controlling vast (and admittedly dying) colonies or empires-and lots of men and other resources) in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Europe was definitely FLEXIN' HARD after the invasion of France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. France fell-and the Blitz began 3 months later. Everyone was on notice.
I'm glad Germany is sensible, center-left, constitutionally focused on human rights and human dignity, and prosperous in our time. Video is great btw!
Fun fact : The 75mm co-axial gun is the exact same gun used on the early model of the Panzer IV.
Early models used the L/24 howitzer, it’s not the same gun
everyone at WW: strategic battles
Germans: Jiant tank goes boom!
Maus was really a mouse in the strategic sense why would you ever go near such a beast didn't they just say that it's top speed in 20 kph I could run away from it barefoot
The 75mm coaxial weapon was not a cannon, but more of a grenade launcher. It was intended to be fast-firing compared to the main gun and lob 75mm HE and HEAT rounds.
The one thing though I can't wrap my head around is the comparison to the Abrams or Soviet MBTs. They have a similar-sized cannon (100-130mm depending on the model) and their composite armor is thicker than the steel armor of the Maus, yet these tanks are significantly smaller! The German 128mm has a similar performance to modern 125mm cannons, but the breach is significantly larger, thus requiring a much bigger turret. Similarly, the engine is frigging huge compared to other engines who might even have twice as much horsepower.
played this tank in WOT anf by the time u get to the middle the battle is over 😭
Its much worse in warthunder lol
And its getting nerfed in the next update
@@lyric-992 how?
@@theoriginalbanana3195 Br changes most likely
For WT it was removed, but it just gets ATGMed and helicoptered
It's sad to see this tank getting nerfed in WOTB
Fr but I got to say it
I like the e100 better 😞
@@warturtlethetank1074 same man , im grinding the E-100 line though
And deleted in WT
That's why I only grind until tier 8
Ngl e75 is proly better tier for tier but e100 fun af
What the dog doin 🐕
Ah yes, lets name it “MOUSE” because its gonna be big! Sounds like a great idea!
This logic is why Germany lost
Lets call an atomec bomb a "peacemaker"
Why fatman is so fat?
"deception"
Because it's eating too many atom
think of the maus as the fat kid on the playground getting into a fight. sure, he can take some punches, and make a solid hit, but all of the other kids could just avoid him, or climb to the top of jungle gym and throw rocks at him. he can't run, and he has no friends to stop the people in the jungle gym.
too big to hide and too slow to run away
You got that from potential history, didnt you?
Do you have trauma?
@@moldybread5828 ?
@@kommanderc7208 I'm saying we're you the kid
Ok so the Soviet tanks you were using were T-34-85’s which had a 85mm cannon not a 76mm
@@Cat-y4w 85mm for the T-34-85's were just enough to deal with pesky tigers and panthers
@@bluesky_cupy5158 And sometimes, if the angle was right and the Germans were lucky, even that wouldn't penn them, let alone a Maus
@@Waftey Tanks won't, but bombers certainly will!
I have some information that yall missed, the Maus wouldnt change the tide of the grand scheme of the war, cause if this beast went unsupported, it would be a big target for aircraft, large caliber artillery, and even infantry no matter how many tanks it could destroy, your description of "turning tide of the war" would be really wrong, the Germans already said that about the Tiger and Panther and those didnt change the tide, King Tiger's were lost due to break downs rather than enemy fire
Also high caliber tank piercing rounds
Maus was really a mouse in the strategic sense why would you ever go near such a beast didn't they just say that it's top speed in 20 kph I could run away from it barefoot
This is why The Infographics Show is faulty, I'm not sure where their sources come from but they sure ain't correct.
The most deadly thing to a German tank is Mechanical failure
The mighty Abrams MBT has 3 fuel cells, and a total fuel capacity of 504.4 gallons of fuel. In addition the Abrams MBT will run on anything that is flammable, anything from Bacardi 151 to the JP-8 that we use to power said heavily armored vehicle.
Let’s be honest here this tank is as big as a HOUSE!! 🤯🤯
Fun Fact: The Kubinka building that holds the Maus was BUILT AROUND THE MAUS
@@magnum6763 they currently have revamped the place and moved maus if im right
@@startingbark0356 its to big to move and they aint riskin it. 188 tons would be hard to flip over.
@@magnum6763 they still moved it
@@magnum6763 boats weight more then double the weight and they can flip them over and put them on land
The ME -262. Although years ahead of it time was very easy to shot down. The airframe was simply not strong enough for the advancement in speed, one or two rounds from a 30 mm gum and the 262 would disintegrate. But oh my god, what a first jet aircraft, fast as lighting , very manuverable, deadly when showing on target. But it just was not strong enough from combat and used fuel was to fast.
All planes fell apart after a couple shots
There are many reasons why the Maus was a bad idea, firstly because Germany lacked or steel oil and experienced tank crews by the time the maus would have been ready to be effective.
Furthermore, with the luftwaffe nearly extinct at this stage of the war, allies had constant air superiority which meant that the maus would have faced aircraft instead of tanks and infantry rendering it in effective as it was slow and a huge target.
The 128mm gun was unnecessary as a long 88mm could do everything the 128mm could for cheaper with better accuracy and longer range.
The jagdtiger should have been a clue that thick armor and big gun does not mean victory.
Jagdpanther performed much better! Heck, the stug variants are credited for most tank kills during ww2 and were armed with 75mm guns or 105mm howitzers and short 75mm howitzers protected with a decent yet not overcompasating 80mm of frontal armor.
do not expect it to be effective it has weight problems engine problems and flanking problems it also has a high chance of breakdowns and too heavy to cross any bridges at all
most tanks don't go alone so it's not easy to flank a group of 5-10 tanks with suport units
the low speed and the inability to cross bridges isn’t that bad if you are fighting a defensive war.
@@eliasl332 plus this tank mean to be deployed in eastern front where kursk, poland in fact is a flat land, unlike their western counterpart where Rhine river force axis to destroy every bridge to halt allied invasion
I like how the thumbnail shows it the size of a bucket wheel excavator
Could you cover up a P-1000 Landkruzer Ratte the biggest tank that haven't been constructed and only in the blueprint
The turret was constructed but they scrapped it
@@TheSlyRat32 The turret already existed, but it had 3 guns because it belonged to a warship
the t34/85 with a 76mm gun is unbelievable.
Well, the Maus is the heaviest tank to be produced yes but it ain't the largest in size, that goes to the Char 2c actually
The Char 2c weighted only 69 tons. Mostly because it's armour was no thicker than 45mm which was impenetrable for WW1 standards. It was also the only super heavy tank in the world to have reached operational statues.
@@warpey5632 The Char 2C was in service as well and I clearly wrote that the heaviest tank indeed is the Maus but in size the Char 2C is a tad bigger
E100 History ?
It was faster then Maus, better gun, same secondary gun and better armour( it had the same but it was very Slopped)
They created it on paper but I’m almost sure that they never made a prototype.
@@eliasl332 Yea, i know, but they started making a prototype, but it never got in action.
The E-100 was only faster on paper, the chronic lack of horsepower due to its use of the Maybach HL230 engine (the same engine that powered the Tiger 1, 2 and Panther) would mean it would be almost impossible to get it up to its theoretical top speed. The gun of the E-100 was identical to that of the Maus, the 128mm kwk 44, the 150mm gun was dropped from both vehicles very early on as there was no real benefit over the 128mm other than a more powerful HE shell but it would have limited the amount of ammo the vehicles could carry and would have made them even heavier. And the armour of E-100 was inferior to the Maus on just about every plate, especially the sides in an effort to keep the weight down
@@eliasl332 They were in the process of making the hull, but once the location was captured by allied forces the british pretty much just scrapped the hull
@@bluesky_cupy5158 it was used for target practice
Great vid, could you do a vid on the E-100? Its like the Maus's brother with less armor and a bigger gun. That would be a interesting vid. Or a versus between the 2. Big brain time.
The e100 only ever had the hull made
It was originally designed to have a 150mm gun but was then decided to use the Maus turret then the war ended
We can all agree that mounting a 150 mm howitzer on a tank is not practical, unless you play WoTb in which case you need that :))
@@TandemSix laughs in Sturmpanzers with 150mm howitzers
@@magnum6763 I would say sturmtiger was more of a threat
The Maus. Makes sense because one of the largest operational tanks made is called Mouse
Still no match for the Bob Semple Tank
Found the guy gaijin asks for "logic"
Oh yeah I remember that meme that’s from what five years ago?
The superior Bri’ish *BREN* Heavy Machine Guns of the *Commonwealth*
Based
Maus could turn the tide of the war
Bombers:Hold my bombs
Been following you guys for a while now, thank you so much for your content. It’s something I watch to pass the time while eating. Thank you and can’t wait for more.
Allies: The mouse? Hah! What could a mouse do against our shermans?
Pz VIII Maus: Bounjour
Maus a 500kg bomb bonjour.
Maus blows up
yes, but the enemy could just go around the maus. they could also call in a dive bomber. the luftwaffe basically didn't exist at that point, and the maus had no means of air defense. it also would've had frequent breakdowns, as well as being almost impossible to transport to the battlefield, as it would need to be disassembled to fit on a train. it would crush bridges and destroy the roads it drove on. why build one maus when you can build 15 panthers for the same price.
It doesnt need to be dissembled to be on a train, the soviets even managed to ship it on a train as a complete vehicle
Because 15 panthers cost way more resources then 1 maus
Even germans made special vagon for maus in which it was transported to proven grounds in Kümesdorf
@@startingbark0356 but even 1 panther Is more effective than a muas
Just a tank geek here. Multiple models of the t34 had 76mm cannons but the models you showed at the start were t34-85s which had 85mm guns. Just thought I'd state that
I couldn't imagine what it must have been like..
Warthunder fans know that the maus can't resist your heat shells or the Pe-8 bomb
hi sorry. but just being someone that really likes tank history. the t-34s in the beginning of the video were the t-34-85 variant, this variant had a 85mm gun instead of a 76mm gun. you can tell its the t-34-85 variant bc of the larger turret and longer gun. it wouldn't really mater though bc it still wouldn't pin the maus tank. again sorry for the correction. also there were other t-34 variant with a 76mm gun just those ones had a smaller turret with a different shap and a much shorter gun. again sorry for the correction. also sorry for any bad grammar or misspelling english isn't my first language. and great video
Yea that hurt to, but that’s actually some pretty good english, especially since English is one of the hardest languages to learn
The mighty Maus: almost indestructible
Meanwhile any allied plane with a bomb load:
Maus wouldn't be affective that much in the battlefield, since they still have weakspot, and slow maneuvarable turret
Wheres the weakspot
@@sirvix9024 The neck, if youre on a lucky angle, the engine room ( disabling it's movement ), I mean if youre counting infantry, then the hatches,if youre counting bombs, than, just nice big juicy bombs, uh the barrels, technically a rifle could shoot down it's barrel into a loaded ammuntion peice and that shell would explode
@@acbeck0680 the neck ? Are u referring to the turret ring ? Cuz im pretty sure thats within the tank lol, most of these weak spots are weaknesses for really any tank in ww2
If this thing was in battle it would break tracks immediately
TANKS for the memories, INFOGRAPHICS....
"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
You should do a video on serfdom. Black and Hispanic people who cry for reparations over something from centuries ago can learn a thing or two from the descendants of the serfs. The serfs' descendants aren't crying about what happened hundreds of years ago. Those who cry about the past are the ones who choose to live in the past and not the present, making them steal their own future from themselves.
Just to clarify, the maus is the heaviest tank ever built, not the largest. That trophy would go to the char 2c or the k wagon
Imagine how many more tanks could've been made using all that resources to make the Maus.
A Maus weights as much as:
8 Panzer III
7 and a half Panzer IV
3 and a half Tiger I
2 and a half Tiger II
Hans:hans 2 we need better transimission on tonks
Hans 2:oh more armor?
Hans:no hans more transimission
Hans 2:bigger kannon?
Hans:No transmission
Hans 2:oh battleship kanon
Hans:yes hans
If the t34s were smart that would shoot the track and disabled them that way if not call for air support drop bombs on it
That battle never happened you know that right
The track was thick, no way its an easy pen
Maus: Biggest tank ever built
Ratte: Biggest tank ever designed
Bismarck: Hold my beer
Yeah but wasnt it the Yamato?
Yamato is a warship, not a tank
@@amn2760 yes I know but I thought you meant the Bismark was the biggest battleship
@@amn2760 so does bismark
This is a really great video with amazing animation. The infographics show always has incredible war story narrations.
Sorry to disappoint but they used T34’s with 76mm cannons when in reality it was 85mm.
And the Maus never fired a single shell against actual allied forces in a true attack, plus it wouldn't have changed the course of the war, considering how neither the tigers and panthers did
“Maus is the biggest tank ever made”
P. 1000 Rattle : oh really?
Yes really the ratte was never made so many people quick to say the ratte and never stop to read the Ever made part
Ah yes, hitlers largest mobile allied bomber target. Designed to challenge allied aerial bombing skills by having a moving artillary bunker for the bombers, fighter bombers and attackers to feast on it. Itll be like how the allies tried to sink the bismarck and the yamato only the destruction of the maus would take 10 minutes and there would only be 2 attackers
Yes you are completely taken by the “light side” you drone
I think they'd have to dive in very close in order to have the accuracy needed. Bombers in WWII used "dumb bombs" and they would often have trouble hitting large buildings. Hitting something smaller (ikr, smaller) like the Maus would be even harder unless they flew very close to the ground.
Mass B-17 raids to the factories before its ever built would like to have a word
Sure the maus had a 128mm main gun, but they did not however have a sabot round
The thing is the maus was never used in combat and only 2 were made
Next do a vedio about the e100 tank that supposed tobe a replacement for the mouse.
Wasnt supposed to replace it
The Maus would have done little to change the war. At 5 a month (at best), you'd get 60 per year. That's nothing. It might be "unkillable"; but it would he easy to out maneuver and it's thrist for fuel would have had it run out in the heat of battle.
Meanwhile, in somewhere: *”The USSR Cat”*
Kv-6 Behemoth: Heey your going down Maus
doesn't exist plus still smaller than the fcm 2c
Yesssss, maussssss WOT people get it
WT people after hearing Maus: pain and suffering
This guy: mouse
Everyone: Maus
42 Another GOLD medal... I was typing comment in another video when the notification popped up. Great timing.
again
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42 what
44
Panzer Ratte: hahahaha you are soo tiny
Panzer Maus: :(
(Panzer Ratte is big like an Building and has a battleship canon)
The Infographics Show always finds a way to make people's day happier, he inspired me to create my own channel😇🙏❤️💖
Good.
"their 76mm cannon" shows t34/85 that has a dt 5 85mm cannon
Is the title supposed to be a pun or not
No, The Maus actually is the biggest/heaviest tank ever to be produced and it can be seen at the Kubinka Tank Museum in Russia
*Kubinka
@@magnum6763 sry yes thx for the correction
No it’s purpose name decision
First, I was feeling sad that it never left the prototype phase. Then I remembered it was Hitler's.
Maus : *exist
Transmission : "My time has come"
What about the American T28 Super Heavy Tank? That thing is pretty big.
12 inches of armor
4 inch main gun
36 feet 6 inches long
14 feet 11 inches wide
9 feet 4 inches tall
How fast would the turret move though?
Can’t we just take a moment and appreciate him for making these videos for all of us..
No there factually in correct in some fashion
Small Tank: FIRE!
Maus: The frick u say to me u little.
You haven't heard of the Russian T-34 rush. They will not be likely to just sit and shoot at the mighty maus.
“Oh, that Maus is a gentle giant, what are you talking about?”
Even if it was mass produced, it was slow so many tanks could circle it
What do you think is a better tank? The mouse, the abrams , the t 90 or the centurion
Thee sheer amount of information they got wrong about the maus and T-34 mostly about the armour and guns is somewhat disappointing.
1. The T-34s they showed was the T-34-85 variant, armed with an 85mm anti tank gun, not a 76mm gun
2. The maus' front hull armour was 200mm, not 220mm, the front turret was 220mm, the side and rear hull armour were 180mm and 150mm respectively meaning the statement about the rear armour being stronger than the front of the king tiger is false, again they stated the turrets armour for the entire tank, the side and rear of the turret was 200mm, not the hull.
3. The tank was not 200 tons it was 188 tons, they were close by not quite correct.
And 4. The Maus has a maximum speed of 20km/h ONLY on road, off road they were lucky to get to 10km/h
Most of their info is close enough to, different sources say different thing and things like armor thickness can only be accurately obtained by drilling into the plates sometimes, although I think the Maus’s plates are visible from the side. The 85mm thing was dumb af tho. But things like armor thickness essentially come down to semantics at that point
Pretty sure it was not mentioned, unless I missed it, but the tank never made it past prototyping nor saw combat, the surviving one that exists today was made from a empty hull and the destroyed turret of the 2nd prototype that was blown up in allied bombings, and it's completely hollow since only the 2nd prototype had received any kind of interior components.
The main gun is the same used in the Jagdtiger, the secondary 75mm is the short 75mm used in early war Pz IVs (not late war ones) and was meant to fire High-Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) and High Explosive (HE) shells, duo to Germany not having very good HEAT shells it most probably would have been used to blow up smaller tanks.
The T-34s shown at the start are actually T-34-85s, which carried a 85mm cannon not the standard 76mm.
This is not actually the most heavily armored tank of ww2 (be it either a prototype or completed tank), that title goes to the T28/T95 super heavy tank destroyer, which had a ridiculous 305mm frontal armor, the Maus is however the most all around armored tank having 200mm armor on all sides.
It was rumored to receive a Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) shell, which was basically a 128mm case with a 88mm shell inside.
Maus translates to mouse, German engineers had a rather unique sense of humor when naming some of their vehicles.
The E-100 was also developed in parallel, and was the one to receive the 150mm gun, it was also supposed to sport rounder and angled armor all around (the Maus' sides where flat), very little progress was made in comparison to the Maus, the one and only very basic prototype was captured then scrapped in the 50s, it was part of the Entwicklung series of tanks which where meant to standardize parts for easier logistics and maintenance, the other where the E-25, E-50 and E-75, the numbers represented the meant tonnage for the design.
No, the 7.5cm is the longer version, not the L/24 howitzer of early Pzkpfw IVs
@@nickellison2785 The 7.5cm is the caliber, not the length, the Maus uses a 7.5cm as a secondary.
The length of the barrel could differ but they are the same guns, both the long and short ones In early and late Pz IVs are the same caliber.
@@rafaelsousa5 I know 7.5cm is the calibre, but the L/24 and L/48 are very different guns with different purposes.
@@nickellison2785 Very different purposes sure, but they aren't that different, they are still tank cannons, it's not like Germany engineered a completely different beast within the same caliber range, but if we want to be that pedantic then the Maus was gona use neither, since it was gona use the KwK 44 not the 40, and at a shorter length than the 40.
Maus: *exists* Ratte: "Is this supposed to be some kind of joke?"
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1:20 that is an 85mm T-34. the drawing in this image shows the 85mm, not the 76mm
edit: the Maus would have not turned the tide of WW2. it would have effected morale and destroyed countless allied vehicles, maybe, but it was not just tanks that won WW2
Also known as a T-34-85
Also it would become a massive target for allied bombers, large caliber artillery and possibly faster vehicles trying to flank it
Ah yes, the T-34/76 but with an 85 turret.
“Hi, Porsche? Do you still make this model?”
Those are T-34-85 in the opening, they use 85mm guns..
You guys rolling out videos every day...
I would never be able to work for you; Im too lazy to keep up
1:22 *uses the 85mm model of the t-34* 76mm gun?
I cannot with this. As a war thunder player I am overly disappointed that u called it the mouse and not Maus, SUCH DISRESPECT for that tank u have
The official title of the t34's seen in the video is t34 model 1944 and not t-34-85, therefore whoever made this video got the name correctly by referring to it as the t34.
T-34-85 was only used by germans.
Being a world of tank player does not always mean that the information provided in the game is factual.
What
T-34 was only used by the Germans?!?!?! 💀💀💀 It’s literally the most famous Soviet WWII tank ever.
"the 128mm would even dwarf the modern abrams 120mm L55"
lol you should be a comedian
Is-7: finally a worthy opponent,our battle will be legendary
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The t34 in the start of the video is a t34/85 with a 85 mm cannon not a 76mm
*2 Maus Driving alone*
*Austrian painter : Wait wheres the convoy*