MAUS tank info - version 2

[Mrmichaelmcginley]

A tank that if you shot it would bounce of but the fuel tanks sitting a the back WTF?

at 1:12

[theycallmejamesy]

Your use of grammar is most uncool.

[westwing23]

sadly???? i feel GREAT ABOUT that thing not in battle..im an american and i know none of our ground unit ain gonna take out those basterd at that time

[chrthiel]

@westwing23

That's where combined arms come in. If the infantry or the armour can't deal with it you call in an air strike or an artillery barrage.

[millitarychap]

The maus tank was dam HUGE!!!!!

[svinok666]

only 1 maus was fully equipped, rest had turrets made of concrete

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@svinok666 only two were build.

[antoniopetera47]

he was to heavy so he was slow, kingtiger is better

[Nicholasdude187]

On your vid you have made massive run on sentences. It was kinda hard to follow. Nice vid. You got your information correct at least ^^

[TheSpartanTank]

SADLY THEY NEVER SAW COMBAT!!! THIS THING COULD WIN THE WAR

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@TheSpartanTank not really. They only had 2 one with weapons on it. and also you have to remember that the US air force would have bombed them to kingdom come.

[bh5496]

that is the most ugly assed abomination of a tank i've ever seen along with the M3 Lee tank. there isn't even a hull mg, russian swarm tactics could probably easily take that thing out. and 13 km/h!?!? really!?! that mamoth would probably sink into solid ground, let alone if it started to get muddy or snowy. that THING is an ill concieved disaster that probably wasted more german money than they could afford to waste!

[Jezthevalley]

the allies probably laughed their butts off when they saw the prototype of this gigantic piece of failure crap. sorry. no offense.

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@Jezthevalley it wasn't really a failure. Although we let the Russians take it to Russia.

[Jezthevalley]

@liberalinthedesertaz it wasn't really a failure? ooohhh i doubt that. The King tiger would've fared better.

[seifer641]

Only one complete prototype was built before the testing grounds were captured by the advancing Soviet forces. =^,^=

[chrthiel]

@taylorsux12

More precisely, the most finished one was sent to Berlin, but broke down after app. 5 miles and was destroyed by its crew.

The soviets recovered it and the one that had been left at the factory. That one had no turret, so they took the turret from the first one and put it on the second. The result can be seen at the Kubinka Tank Museum in Russia.

[SuperRatchetclank]

@NorwegianCraft No they wouldn't its an impractical tank, a juicy target for aircraft, one single shaped charged bomb is enough to destroy that ugly thing. XD

[Toddinfantry]

@taylorsux12 The Maus was not sent to battle in Russia. Both Maus' were still in Germany when the war ended. The V1 hull and V2 turret were mated in Germany by the Russians and then sent to Russia for testing.

[TaZ101SAGA]

Imagine if Germany had the man power and resources to mass produce these tanks, we would have been fucked right over.

[ouano1]

the problem with germany was that he fought a 2 front war, instead of assimilating the conquered nations first, and another thing he awakened 2 sleeping giants

[Deviloid]

even if this tank would be out,it was too late for it to even survive as it is slow and big which means,that if it would have fought against the allies in the west it would get destroyed by allied airforce and if it would have fought against the soviets in the east,then the soviets would quickly surround it and destroy it

[routhoula]

unfortunately and sadly?! yeah whatever you say

[ThePullaMies]

Why does everyone use Windows Movie Maker? It sucks, and it's obvious that you use it! Use Vegas! It's better! And also, MAUS was also the biggest tank ever built.

[TraustiGeir]

There was also the idea to fit it with dual 88mm Flak cannons which would've made a lot more sense in terms of anti-aircraft and anti-tank roles.

The "sole survivor" is made out of wood I think...

[chrthiel]

@TraustiGeir

Not really. Dual guns wouldn't have let it engage more targets and the turret wouldn't have been able to fire high enough or train fast enough to engage aircraft

[TraustiGeir]

@chrthiel I'm certain that if they wanted the Maus to serve in the role of an AA-weapon, they would´ve made modifications to the turret. But you're right, the turret would have been a real slowpoke.

The Germans designed and built a flying wing and a jet engine during the war, I know that if they had the time (and a little less desperation on their minds) the Maus, or a similar monster, could have entered production.

[chrthiel]

@TraustiGeir

Oh usre they could probably have gotten it into production, but that doesn't solve its basic flaws. It's too big, heavy and slow.

[TraustiGeir]

@chrthiel Very true, it was practically useless and it's best role ever is to boost the profits of munitions-museums. Personally I think the Panther V was the best tank of the war.

But had the Germans decided to focus their resources on machines they knew performed well and were 10x more useful than one Maus prototype, the war could've dragged on for much longer. For that, I'm thankful Hitler had a couple of screws loose and Speer and many others were thoughtful enough to exploit that.

[chrthiel]

@TraustiGeir

Not really. The majority of the Wonder weapons didn't start development until after their luck had turned.

Plus, if they had stuck with only well-known types the war would have been over much sooner, since even by mid-war most of the German equipment were badly outdated. There would have been no Panthers, Tigers, StuGs and very few SPGs

[TraustiGeir]

@chrthiel The development of these projects spanned years, not to mention others such as the V-weapons which were already in full use by the time of Germany's downfall. They weren't effective as tide-turners, but required a lot of resources.

And despite being outdated, the conventional weaponry the Germans used were still very effective (much more than the experimental ones). Take the MG42 for example, it has hardly changed since war ended and is still being used today as the MG3.

[RRRoman212]

последнее фото - из танкового музея в Кубинке. там стоит Маус. правда, второй с башней от первого(или наоборот :))

[farookbulsasra]

"Sadly none of them entered combat"... thats a disturbing remark.Would one wish this tank unleashed on allied soldiers to prolong the power of the Nazis, the same criminals who mass murdered innocent people? I presume you made that out of context.

[XxxSakura101]

@farookbulsasra I'd rather it had a chance to fight the soviets.

[farookbulsasra]

@XxxSakura101 given the outcome of postwar Euope and the Iron Curtain,it sounds appealing to us westerners.Stave off the communists until the allies arrive.But the boundaries of post war Euope were already decided between the allies and soviets(in operation Eclipse),in tehran ('43) and yalta ('45).politically it would have been defunct.

[TraustiGeir]

@farookbulsasra The good thing about this entering production is that it's slow, vulnerable and requires a lot of resources. A perfect candidate to shorten the duration of the war and drain materials from the manufacturing of other (better) German weapons.

[WarTubeChannel]

what a beast !

[rangeclerk]

U are MISTAKEN! IT WAS A GREAT THING THAT THESE "THINGS' were never in combat but as I and others have commented, they would have been a sitting duck for air attacks.

[manchester117]

The tank actually had a 150mm main gun. It was changed because when Hitler first saw the tank With the 127mm main gun he said it looked like a toy compared to the tank, therefore it was changed

[TSR1989FF]

The Maus Tank (Originallly called the Mammoth) As a example of German One upmanship Is almost without Conparison (Exept for their own E-100 [The Largest Tank Ever to be attually Put into a state of construction since one Half Completed Prototype was Found by we British after the War] & the "P1000 Ratte" [a "LandCruiser" not a Tank in the true sence] We Brit's would call it a "Heavy Assault Tank" or "Super Tank" as it puts Firepower & Armour First,

I it's defence it was The most Well Armed

[4FunPlayin]

also plz make it 120fps

[4FunPlayin]

what do you mean it was never fighted, not even in Berlin? omg?

[StormProductionzZ]

what do you mean didnt enter combat-.- they did

[kitchsc]

its can still be a morden day weapon

[DimentioMaster]

so i am to understand nazis had plans for 3 massive tanks they thought would win the war: the maus, the ratte, and the ridiculous landkruezer.

[DimentioMaster]

@DimentioMaster or what were they gonna call the 1500 ton one? i thought it was landkruezer, but i realize that they all were called that...

[GfCommando]

"RUN! A MAUS!"

[Dogghouseradio]

MAUS!

[darkborn2000]

138mm the king tiger 180mm wtf

[MrDiscoBus]

Dieser Panzer wurde mehr als zweimal gebaut und hat auch am krieg teilgenommen es giebt nähmlich mehrere verschiedene Bilder von gesprengten Panzern dieser version aus dem bereich Juni 1944-Februar 1945

[tigertankman]

yhere was prudused 33 of them :S 15 destroyed

[eagerbeaver53]

this wouldnt be very practicle but if a foot soldier and i see one of thes comin down the street id be scared so yeah it would be a good intimidation weapon

[cyberarmy007]

The German High Command was insane! The "Maus" had an enormous fuel consumption, was slow and heavy-handed. This tank borders on silly!

[Unit987654321]

You think that's big, you should see what the Germans attempted to make. Search up the Ratte. You will shit bricks, I am not joking. But good thing they could not finish it, they only made the turret and later used it as a coastal defence weapon.

[JoE12309393]

@cyberarmy007 and thats why we all arnt speaking german

[rangeclerk]

@cyberarmy007 Check out classic sci fi series THE BOLO BRIGADE

[blackadder0sporetive]

@cyberarmy007 there was one tank, cant remember the name but it was about 10x the size of this, course it was never made.

[xxjf0809xx]

@cyberarmy007 exactly you threw one of those beasts into a battle,fighter bombers would just blow it apart

[Bloodmane1987]

@cyberarmy007

German tank comanders were able to hanle it, coz they were good skilled... It would be a deadly weapon, but just for slow and massive attacks or defense. A rolling bunker. Germany had not the ressources to build more of them and bring them to production... a very empressive tank...

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@cyberarmy007 maybe, but at the same time it was designed to be a mobile bunker and super heavy tank.

[youngdones]

I've heard a lot about the Maus, but what about the ridiculously oversized "Ratte" tank? Were any Ratte tanks ever actually constructed?

[CartmanLandZ]

p1500 check that on out

[silverspoon97]

its the p1000 watch the one with the epic music

[tigertankman]

no they started on it but they ran out of metal and recorces

[1acount]

they ade something better,than the ratte,thats why it was canccelled,

the juggernaut!,and the hannebue series,

based of victor schaubergers vortex levitation technology

[youngdones]

The Vril society? Did that vortex levitation technology actually work? Does it still exist today? Did the German "UFO's" fall into the hands of American scientists after the end of WW2?

[b0gAtYr]

I say Maus and super tanks would've been pointless, yes. Too easy to destroy. HOWEVER, BIGGER, Land-Crushers (yes it's just my term, deal with it c(=) Like the Land-Kruizer/Ratte (FORGOT THE NUMBER DX) would've been MONSTERS. Too big to destroy with anything short of a nuclear weapon (and even then it might survive if radiation proof), and mounting not 1, but TWO, HUGE, 155mm Guns, capable of leveling cities, it would have left a mark.

[HufflepuffTheGreat]

As useless as MAus would've been, it's still an awesome machine....

[LINDM4N]

its hardly sad that it never entered combat......

[28jul1821]

I think the germans were beginning to compromise mobility too much look at the Tigers and this they were very powerful but could be easily outmanuevered which is a terrible thing in battle

[sherpant]

Your right. But along with smaller older lighter tanks that wouldn't have to matter. This tank would have been the overlord on the battlefield being able to shell enemys from far beyond there range. on the east front this tank would have made a diffrence being able to shoot up loads of high priority targets before they could even come into firering range. Like the abrams did to the iraqi tanks in the gulf war. This tank however would have been better off with a better engine with atleast 25KM/h

[sherpant]

but it still was a prototype for this main reason and the lack of resources to make it in to decent production. The engine would have needed to be much more powerful. Even better then the monster they already developed for it. And it would consume louds of fuel, something the germans lacked and they hoped to secure by capturing the cascades on the east front. but then there equipment got stuck in the winter and they had to delay there attacks. This gave the soviets the turning point they needed.

[sherpant]

if they would have been able to produce a stronger engine to speed up the slow movement speed of this tank as well as some actual production and attachment to panzer brigades this tank would have wiped the floor with most competition. it had an extreme range aswell as a powerfull cannon its armour was invincible to enemy fire. unfortunately germany never managed to produce any of those as well as a sufficient amount of king tigers due to the lack of required resources.

[chrthiel]

Actually, it wouldn't.

Even if they'd managed to solve the engine problem, they'd still be faced with a little problem called logistics.

At tons there was only a handfull of bridges in Western Europe outside of Germany strong enough to support it and none in Russia and Poland.

[TheMan6376]

Even if the Maus tank was able to be deployed it would only be able to be used defensively due to how slow it was and would not be able to keep up with the German blitzkrieg

[LordSovereign7]

yes, indeed, i would love to see a scale model of it though! and maybe a functional replica, well, i'll see you around, im gonna go see transformers and buy Overlord 2! peace

[LordSovereign7]

im aware, as stated by my comment "yeah but this tank is real" implying that i know what the P1000 is and that is was never made, merely another crazy yet cool project ordered by hitler

and you sound like that game zero wing, what the hell do you mean by Read My Tank is fight? what are you trying to say!? lol all your base are, belong to us

[LordSovereign7]

I wonder how its 240mm steel plating armor can compare to modern day tanks, and how big it would look next to a M1Abram...

[LordSovereign7]

yeah but this tank is real, unlike the P1000 Ratte...

man you are dense

[thegreenishcrab]

wholy fuck that things huge

[Maus5000]

Awesome!

[cheesedie]

holy shit, this tank is simply a beast, and two guns? thats mad!

[Xobunoli]

I thought the main gun on the maus was 240mm.

[th3d3storoy3r]

Why do you think that

[Xobunoli]

I thought I saw it in a book, but it could've been the armor specs.

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@Xobunoli no, its 12.8CM gun.

[pipmdirector]

"...sadly they never entered combat..." don't you mean luckily!

[th3d3storoy3r]

oh yeah, well it's too late to change it now it's already uploaded

[rich0585]

@th3d3storoy3r

From a mechanical engineering point, it truly is sad it never saw combat. From a stance of the people powering it, well its up to your own personal views. I personally commend the Germans for taking a "Go for it" attitude towards pushing the boundaries of what could be done. Maybe a few million less Jews killed would of been nice though.

[Maver1ck911]

@pipmdirector

These "super" tanks wouldn't have made a difference... The European theater of war required the mobility and access of streets, stone bridges, soft ground... A tank of this proportion would not be able to navigate city streets, or cross bridges, it would also sink in soft ground...

Additionally it would make for a great target for bombers... it would attract a great deal of attention and would be pounded with ordnance lol...

[liberalinthedesertaz]

@pipmdirector also depending on who you talk to when the proving grounds where they were built was attacked they might have seen some combat. Not likely but maybe.

[chrthiel]

@liberalinthedesertaz

Nope. The one with the finished turret was send to Berlin, but it broke down a few km from the factory where it was built. It was destroyed by its own crew in order to prevent it being capture. The one at Kubinka is the one that got left behind in the factory, but fitted with the turret from the other.

[chrthiel]

@liberalinthedesertaz

Nope. The one with the finished turret was send to Berlin, but it broke down a few km from the factory where it was built. It was destroyed by its own crew in order to prevent it being capture. The one at Kubinka is the one that got left behind in the factory, but fitted with the turret from the other.

[bestamerica]

i wish america can make the powerful battle maus tank in the world..

one maus is 3 times M1A1 battle tanks

[th3d3storoy3r]

maybe in WW3 when the 2nd depresion when it has started near it's end when a country (most likely germany) starts it, then maybe a tank like this made by ths US or germany

[halo07guy2]

You do realize that Germany is part of the EU, so they wouldn't be the ones starting the war. No, it would most likely be a Russia returning to Soviet ideals, or an expansionist China.

[th3d3storoy3r]

true, but any country can start a war no matter what it is whether it's america, france, germany, russia, japan, australia, poland, and many other countries

[fellfrosch96]

@halo07guy2 it's not like the americans aren't provoking them to do so...

also, i still ask myself, why russia didn't simply bomb the hell out of that georgian piece of crap.

and why doesn't the nato try to invite russia and china to the them? where's the problem?