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the Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte: aka Hitler's wet dream. armed with a Battleship turret and weighing over 1000 tons, the "tank" would have been virtually impossible to bring into action due to it's immense size and weight, not to mention drawing all enemy fire onto it.the project was cancelled in early 1943 by Albert Speer, likely due to it being unrealizable.
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Could you imagine the damage that main turret would cause if this WAS real?
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fun fact: the turret IS real.Β upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
according to myth, legend, and old records, this was the very turret that was supposed to be mounted on the Ratte. It came off the battleship Gneisenau.Β
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Say, have you read the book "My tank is fight" by Zack Parsons?
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Craziest thing is this isn't even the biggest weapon Hitler wanted to build! There was also the P1500 Monster!
Hitler, I hate you and everything you stand for, but thank you for giving us these epic but impractical Wunderwaffe.
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It is NOT a tank, it was envisioned as a mobile strongpoint with a lower ground pressure than a average tank and as high as it would be, crossing most rivers would not be an issue for it, also its minimum armor thickness on the sides /rear was 200mm + spaced 100mm outside the tracks, max armor 360 mm in front top was 180mm, it might seem heavy but the inverse square law is actually helping here, further more even do for a land vehicles it is big, for a mediumΒ to high altitude bomber it would a pain in the neck to hit as it is miniscule for a ship, there was a reason why its designation was not tank but Landcruiser.Β
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You wouldn't use high-altitude bombers, you'd just send a few Mosquitos carrying 4,000 lb bombs. Easy.
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if only. the Germans actually planned to build this monster.
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Scariest thing ever thought of, but thankfully impractical
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How tall is this tank?
And that Jagdtiger on the back
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36 feet tall, according to the prepared design specs. and that is a Maus turret on the back, not a Jagdtiger.
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Mkay...
And it was a impractical 'super tank'
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This is big, big tank. Crazy idea at the end of WW2, impractical, slow, it would be easily destroyed by artillery or bombarder.
And the fuel consumption, so much just to accelerate.
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They say shoting practice for enemy tanks. The thing is, it is armed with a naval ship weapon. It can easily out range anything in field combat, and can just get targeting data radio transmitted to it by forward observers letting it know what is approaching from where. In some scenarios. Yeah there is enemy surprise ambush, but it only has a short time to engage before the escourt tiger tanks would return fire. As I imagine this thing would have escourts.
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But it would only be able to fight vehicles in front of it. It had a fornt casemate-mounted anti-tank gun, but no such armament anywhere else. You could just sit to one side and fire away, most likely using a few SPGs protected by other tanks.
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It has a navy cruiser turret ment to fire any direction, really far away. Β But keep in mind that it is not going to be alone. TO assume so is like assuming a carrier is going to go pick a fight with some enemy ships with no escorts of any kind, and saying your going to briskly walk to it's face and torpedo it. When really you are going to be attacked by frigates, destroyers, and subs. Aswell as the pesky planes.
In the case of one of these. There are going to be germans running around with panzer fausts, panzers, a few hezters sneaking around with some marders, and a tiger or two lurking in the trees around it. While it most likely is ment to punch some battle line in the face and force a hole for germans to charge through. Or to slap around some castle being a pain in the ass. At the high cost of so much oil your wallet is going to beg for mercy.
Now at the same time, it is anything close to practical. Just an outlandish idea for a tactical tool. But me, i rather have that much metal in night op panther tanks and a few tigers. To be honest. Or better yet that much tonnage in me 262.
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Maybe so, but the moment something like this shows up, every Allied gun will be firing at it. Every artillery piece within range will start firing on it, every soldier and tank Β would start attacking any protecting units it has, while any fighter-bombers and medium bombers available would start attacking. In fact, the most likely way to attack it would be to have a few tanks, hopefully Sherman Fireflies, attack and destroy its tracks. Once it can't move anymore, have a few Lancasters carrying Tallboys take a shot. Three or four Tallboys sank a battleship, so only one would need to score a hit.Β
Also, even if it does fire from far away, it can only fire 2 or 3 rounds per minute. Any Allied fighter-bomber is going to see this thing from a mile away. Most likely it would be spotted before it even opened fire. Given the Allied superiority in numbers, any defending forces wouldn't last long. It only had a top speed of 25 mph, so they'd be restricted to a similar speed, and would thus be vulnerable. Any Typhoons nearby would descend immediately, and deal with its escort of tanks in a few minutes, leaving it open to Allied tanks, who would only have to get in the right place and they'd be out of its line of fire.
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well, i would think ALL tanks were vulnerable to heavy bombers.....this would just be the only one you could actually target.....
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Just get a Mosquito to drop a 4000 lb "Cookie" on it.
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good luck having the Wooden wonder make it through the anti-aircraft defenses this thing would have. not including it's own mounted guns, it would likely have a whole flak platoon supporting it.
i'd go for a flight of B-25's coming in at low level. plaster the whole area for good measure.
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You'd have an extremely hard time hitting a plane flying at 400 mph just 30 ft off the ground. A Mosquito would be going way too fast for an AA gun to track it before it's out of view.Β
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unless the Mosquito was flying straight into the guns. like the guns mounted on the Ratte. kinda hard to miss something that's coming straight at you, even at speed.
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True, but the Mosquito routinely bombed heavily defended targets at low level. Besides, a gunner won't know where the plane is until he sees it, which for low-level Mosquito might only be a few seconds before it passes overhead. And also, the Mosquito has a very small frontal cross-section, which makes it even harder to see, let alone hit.
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Did you by any chance catch that episode of "Nazi Super weapons" where they cover this one and the MAUS? It's available for srtreaming on Netflix...Β
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no, i didn't, but i shall now, good sir!
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... a good vehicle for making shooting practice... for the enemies!
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good luck penetrating 25 inches of Armor.....
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The fun is going to last a lot! XD
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I dunno would like one for a personal party pimp mobile XD
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oh, we could probably build it NOW....but it wouldn't last 5 minutes in a real war, what with all the ordnance we can throw at it from the other side of the planet.
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Wouldnt of lasted 5 minutes then either XD one bombing raid or grand slam and boom job done. And yea now it would be useless UNLESS some kind of advanced VLS missile interception and CIWS was added and even then, would still be useless XD
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