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At this point, the estimated weight of the Maus was 188 tons. In his book Panzer Leader, Heinz Guderian wrote: On 1 May a wooden model of the "Maus", a tank project of Porsche and Krupp, was shown to Hitler. It was intended to mount a 150 mm gun. The total weight of the tank was supposed to reach 175 ton.
Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Battle Pack I Scenario Add-on Disk (1999) The Operational Art of War: Century of Warfare (2000) (Collection of 1st 2 TOAW full games & expansions) The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Elite★Edition (2000) (Compilation of 1st full TOAW game & expansion)
The VK 36.01's turret is lined up, along with the hull and turret of the Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank and the Jagdtiger gun mantlet. The VK 36.01 (H) was an experimental German heavy tank , developed during World War II . [ 1 ]
German super-heavy tank Panzer VIII Maus (188 tons) at the Kubinka Tank Museum. During the Second World War, all of the major combatants introduced prototypes for special roles. Adolf Hitler was a proponent of "war winning" weapons and supported projects like the 188 tonne Maus, and even larger 1,000 tonne Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte.
The Panzerkampfwagen VII Löwe (Lion), initially known as project VK 70.01, was a series of designs for a super-heavy tank developed by Krupp from 1941 to 1942. The project would be cancelled in favour of even heavier tanks such as the Maus.
It also included armour-piercing rounds with 8.1 kg (18 lb) of explosive filler, and high-explosive rounds with 17.1 kg (38 lb) of explosive filler. [9] Illustration of the proposed Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte (left) in comparison to other German tanks — the proposed Panzer VIII Maus (center) and the Tiger I (right). A human figure is at far left.
Panzer Campaigns is a series of operational level wargames originally developed by John Tiller Software, and currently by Wargame Design Studio. The games were originally published until 2010 by HPS Simulations, then self published by John Tiller Software until being bought out by Wargame Design Studio in 2021, after Tiller's death. [ 1 ]
A prototype was built by modifying a Panzer 61 and was announced in 1967. In 1972 the Federal Council approved production of a version based on the Panzer 68.The Panzer 68 hull was unchanged, with the gun turret replaced by the bridge-laying mechanism.