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The Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster was a purported German pre-prototype super-heavy self-propelled gun designed during World War II.While it is mentioned in a number of popular works about World War II projects, there is no solid documentation for the program’s existence, and it may have only been a semi-serious proposal, or even an outright hoax, much like the Panzer IX and Panzer X.
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, to the split between West Germany and East Germany, through their reunification and into modern-day Germany.
Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte; paper project; Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster; paper project; 12.8 cm Selbstfahrlafette auf VK 30.01(H) "Sturer Emil" - tank destroyer; 2 built; Heuschrecke 10, Krupp's design for a new self-propelled artillery gun; VK 3001 (P) - medium tank; paper project; VK 3002(DB) - prototype medium tank; one built
Landkreuzer is the German word for landship and refers to a pair of unbuilt German vehicle designs from World War II: Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte , a proposed giant tank armed with naval guns Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster , a proposal to turn the Schwerer Gustav into a self-propelled gun
Each 1.1-meter-wide track, which used the same basic "contact shoe" and "connector link" design format as the Henschel-built Tiger II, was driven by its own electric motor mounted within the upper rear area of each hull side. Each set of tracks had a suspension design containing a total of 24 road wheels per side, in six bogie sets, staggered ...
The train carrying the gun was of 25 cars, a total length of 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi). The gun reached the Perekop Isthmus in early March 1942, where it was held until early April. The Germans built a special railway spur line to the Simferopol - Sevastopol railway 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of the target.
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. [ citation needed ] The British and Soviets all built prototype designs similar to the Jagdtiger , and the US was working on the project then known as T95 Gun Carriage, which was later ...
The Landkreuzer P. 1000 "Ratte" (English: Land Cruiser P. 1000 "Rat") was a design for a 1000-ton tank to be used by Germany during World War II which may have been proposed by Krupp director Edward Grote in June 1942, who had already named it "Landkreuzer" ("Land cruiser").