Sheer craziness. Mixed with a little weirdness. Shaken with a whole lotta cool. Impractical, but cool. Stats via Wikipedia.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Weight | 1,000 tonnes (1,100 short tons; 980 long tons) |
| Length | 35 m (115 ft) hull
39 m (128 ft) guns forwards
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| Width | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Height | 11 m (36 ft) |
| Crew | 20+, possibly as many as 41 |
| Armor | 150–360 mm (5.9–14 in) |
| Main armament | 2x 280 mm 54.5 SK C/34 |
| Secondary armament | 1x 128 mm KwK 44 L/55 8x 20 mm Flak38 2x 15 mm MG 151/15 |
| Engine | 8x Daimler-Benz MB501 20-cylinder marine diesel engines or 2x MAN V12Z32/44 24-cylinder marine diesel engines 16,000 to 17,000 hp (12,000 to 13,000 kW) |
| Ground clearance | 2 m (79 in) |
| Operational range | ~120 miles (190 km) |
| Speed | 40 km/h (25 mph) |
They better not put that in world of tanks. The German line would become extremely unfair...
ReplyDeleteSuper Arty would rape it. Would make a fine shield though.
DeleteStupid Nazis. "We can't build enough tanks because ours are too complex to successfully mass-produce, so we'll build something even more complex and unusable."
ReplyDeletethat would have been the land-going F35 of WWII.
For the amount of material, they could produced enough Panthers for a division
The US attempted to make something like this (larger I believe) during the cold war. The idea was for it to be nuclear powered, penetrate the USSR during winter from alaska and shoot nuclear artillery shells at enemy cities. Then missiles and whatnot advanced alot making it not such a smart idea. I believe the movers for the space shuttle were to serve as the base. Quiet cool eh.
ReplyDeleteAren't you describing the Ogre Mk. I?
DeleteThe KV-V1 was the Russian version of this. The Soviets called it a "land battleship." Their version was longer and had enlarged turrets of both the KV-1 and the KV-2 tanks: http://vonbrrr.deviantart.com/art/Russian-Land-Battleship-KV-VI-178980591
ReplyDeleteI think you may be thinking of the T-35, with its multiple turrets. The KV-1 was a more typical heavy tank
DeleteSomething like this couldn't really be built. But the Germans actually did build the Maus:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus
188 metric tons. Main gun was 128 mm. Armor was as much as 460 mm thick. Only one was completed, and it's in a museum now.