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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").
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.
The story of the P.1000 Ratte has gained a certain degree of traction amongst popular historians in the last decade or so, no doubt because of it's sensationalist nature, however just because something is widely repeated does not mean that it is true.
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
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 ...
It never left the drawing board and no progress was made. It would have surpassed the Panzer VIII Maus (the heaviest tank ever built) and the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte (never built) in weight and size.
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.
Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs used in World War II.In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. [1]German tanks were an important part of the Wehrmacht and played a fundamental role during the whole war, and especially in the blitzkrieg battle strategy.