MAUS: 1:6 scale RC tank (www.rctank.jp)

[TheEffectPerson]

Whats the site for this tank in American?

[JKial5009]

Awsome Maus, do you knkw where I can find 1/10 scale shells or models? Trying to hunt down a Ferdinand. Tanks for the help.

[TheXenomorph1]

That's one big RC.

[xmikerinehartx]

lol maus pwnage

[utena11221]

Awww their soo cute!! I whish I had mini tanks XD

[lonestar2779]

i want one.. how much lol

[samwoec]

I live in Hong Kong. I were order a 1/8 scale Kingtiger from this company at Aug 2009, and pay the deposit for him. And they said will finished 3-4 month. They always delay, and at April-May 2010 I can not contact this company, Back money to me!!! And I will call the police at Japan

[justino4567]

so how did the Mause win the race???

[mentalmetal1]

crazy!

[LordSovereign7]

i was gonna say bbs, you know, RCs with co2 powered bb projectiles, and plastic plating just for dramatic effect in that i wouldnt stand a chance! i've been dreaming that day since the times of RC tanks/helicopters/planes etc.

[balongaboy]

i was hoping someone built an rc mause

[stevebarnes2]

They did, it's the big tan one. Now a 1:6 P1500 "Ratte" would have been impressive (and the size of a family hatchback)

[ChunLung1991]

oh,is this maus in video 188t??0_0"

[George21T]

LOL someone mass produce the sherman tanks . are they be done for . =)

[leonleonceur]

some one must make the pt1000 ratte or even better the pt1500 monster (you know the ones scraped in 1943)

[th3d3storoy3r]

yeah but how it is gonna be at least the size of a normal tank XD

[goofoffproductions]

well at least you don't need a car just put a removable chair on it

[nsx4life2008]

Lol Maus is HUGE!!!

[hoy455]

think what that would do to a sherman

[Sorvos]

To a sherman? Think what would that do to anything that moves.... I bet even an M1A1 and Challenger would be knocked out by this monstrousity. 150 mm gun. God forbid!

[goofoffproductions]

128 mm actually and it wouldn't have done much as the ammo would even scratch the paint on a iraqe t-72

[slopedarmor]

lol, it has an 128 mm L/55 cannon. The Abrams has an 120 mm L/44 cannon. So the Maus has a larger caliber and a much longer barrel. That would devestate a T-72, even a Challenger 2 would get torn apart by that.

[goofoffproductions]

the ammo is what makes tanks today so deadly

[slopedarmor]

True, however depleted uranium doesn't have much of an advantage over tungsten core, which was used in WWII. The only difference being that modern tanks use sabots to deliver DU/tungsten penetrators down range. Sabots are being used to prevent the air resistance from slowing the penetrator down too much. But at short ranges a sabot would not make any difference, making the 128 mm L/55 cannon of the Maus more devestating than the 120 mm L/44 or even the 120 mm L/55 of the leo2a6 at close ranges.

[goofoffproductions]

yea but they have to hit their target which a modern tank would and move twice as fast as the mause could

[Pureteenlard]

Errr . . .no. The L/W ratio of the 128mm round is much smaller than a modern long rod penetrator. The basic force-per-square-inch ratio for a modern gun will be much higher than for the 128mm KwK44. Firing Pzgr43 ammo, the KwK44 has a muzzle velocity of 845m/s while even the obsolete L23 120mm APFSDS round used by Challengers in GW1 had a muzzle velocity in excess of 1500m/s

[shawnbiro]

now we have heavy traffic on the 401 prouced with EXTEME CAUTION

[jxxjxx]

looks like giant sea turtle!!!!

[corobo]

I think too.

[sakajak]

I heard about the landkreuzer before. I they'd built that thing the allies would have lost the war! It was armed with guns from a battleship!

[kunatracing]

IT's true but it was to damn big and expensive so they abandoned the project. The cannons that were suppose to go on that landkreuzer aka "Ratte" were used as coastal defense in Norway I think.

[gufu1992]

That, and was so slow and heavy, it could not be transported out of berlin.

[PanzerAngriff]

Haha. It would have been bombed into oblivion by air power the second it was spotted on the field, or in transit.

[vrieskip]

wel it also had some damn good aa defense so they would have needed a b-17 bomber group to destroy it, it would probably be destroyed by some soft ground because it wasn't able to drive on the softer soils

[PanzerAngriff]

No amount of anti-air defence was sufficient to stop allied air power. The U-Boat pens and V-2 facilities proved this theory correct.

[vrieskip]

well if they build more mauses they rather won the war than with landkreuzers

[FaaipDeOiadMG42]

the maus was never put into battle, and only one survied.after the rest where destoyed. It had a whopping 125mm gun. that's hard ware.

[roaklin]

There are some reports now that it may have seen some action just before being captured, but I havent seen anything myself that is concrete on this.

[FaaipDeOiadMG42]

alright, i'll do some reaserch, and pass it on to you.

[SWmodel29]

no 125mm even a little bit bigger

it got a 128 mm KwK44 L/55 main gun

co-axial 75 mm KwK 44 L/36.5 second gun

and 1 mg34

top speed 13km/h

engine 1200hp

[SchultzEST]

wtf dude only 2 Maus tanks were made.

[PanzerAngriff]

The second version was fully assembled at Kummelsdorf, some state it may have seen action defending the factory, others state it was destroyed by the crew... either way, it was destroyed.

[toto100584]

One Maus tank has been restaurated by Russians. You can see it in a war museum. I've seen the pictures, wonderful tank

[WorstCommenter2008]

@toto100584 Ahh russians, stealing from germans. Also i do not care if they won the war, brb going to steal the maus back from the museum.

[vrieskip]

dont you mean der ratte that one is the biggest that they planned

[phocjame]

The Germans did finish the Maus, it was just so utterly massive & heavy that it couldn't move (properly), it ploughed up the roads when it tried to drive on them, and on the naked earth, it just sank.

The russians captured one of the prototypes, but the nazis had thought about creating an even bigger supertank: the Landkreuzer (2,500 tonnes!).

[TyrantTG002]

Yes, the LandKreuzer P.1000 Ratte and the P.1500 Monster.

[tomkkkkk]

if it had a proper settup i have no doubt they have already build rc helicopters with rc cameras and gun tuerrets.

[vtothez]

the first tank look like rubish.. no details and it don´t look like a tank... its a future tank like star wars... very bad construction

[r34lpolitik]

Its a real tank.  2 prototypes were made (no combat). They were every big as ugly as the RC tank here - but just as large (in scale).

[Zottyo]

It can destroy enemy ground forces, but no aircafts. And from air, Maus is doomed.

After you deploy it, it can move a few km, and it's over... it is only a defensive weapon... stay in a place, and shoot the enemy, hidden from airforce, in a building for example. That's all... And i don't think that the engine was capable to move such a heavy weight. It's nothing, but a huge immobile gun. From that resources, they can build lots of anti tank guns for killing tanks.

[Wooboo]

On top of that, you would be unable to move it across roads or bridges. And you sure as shit could not ford a river with it.

[harry4468]

yes you could it was part of the design it had petrol/electric drive one would stay on the bank and supply the one fording, which may/maynot end up submerged to a max depth of 8Ms, with electricity via a cable it then reached the far bank and process repeated.

[deptrai1989]

sorry for my ignorance but what is so special about these? Isn't a Tokyo marui RC 1/16 tank good enough? Clearly, I don't know much about these things.

[HanssOfff]

I want to see what happened after the Maus hit the table!

[oduvanchikrus]

The model could defend Germany too! That thing is bad ass!

[goddamit777]

cool video, where were these things when I was a kid??

[iz56]

Two prototypes were absoulutley full functional! One the germans destroyed to not let the enemys to capture it.The other stayed almost functional wich was captured by russians,they used blown up Maus parts to build up the other. One fact is sure two tanks have been fully functional at some time. The one is russia Kubinka tank museum.But the interiour of the Maus have been destroyed by fire and burglers.

It would perfectly defend Germany aigenst enemys.

[Zottyo]

Wrong... Kingtiger also can defend it againts tanks, but the main problem was the airforce...

The Maus is to heavy, no bridge can handle it, slow, best target for CAS, and eat a lot of fuel, which germany didn't have.

So Maus is only a Symbol. In real battle, it worth shit.

[iz56]

Maus is the nr one! jonneevegas - Hmm the real tank was also easy to drive.It was real wonder to Porche engineers to.

[bestamerica]

wow MAUS was so big heavy strong tank in the world war 2,,

a maus is a stronger tank in the all whole world tanks,,

[jonneevegas]

Scale speed looks a bit fast on the Maus.

[mwilso]

The Maus RC looks impressive

[wwwRCTANKjp]

who said they could not? some of them could shoot.

[hetsi]

could have been much better if they could shoot!!