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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.
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
The Landkreuzer P.1000 was a super-heavy tank designed by Edward Grote for Nazi Germany in 1942. If completed, the P.1000 would have been 35 meters (115 feet) long and 14 meters (46 feet) wide, with a weight of ranging from 800 to 1,000 tons depending on the variant.
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.
The Monster was to be a 1,500 tonne mobile, self-propelled platform for an 80-cm K (E) gun, along with two 15 cm sFH 18 heavy howitzers, and multiple MG 151 autocannons normally used on combat aircraft. It was deemed impractical, and in 1943 was cancelled by Albert Speer. It never left the drawing board and no progress was made.
A literal translation of the German Landkreuzer, which referred to superheavy tank designs the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte; the Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster; Land Ship, a nickname for British heavy tanks of World War I; In Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series, a landcruiser is an army tank.
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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").