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The Ratte - The Biggest Tank Ever Designed - MSNThe Ratte was designed to be the biggest tank ever built, a 1000-ton beast that could dominate the battlefield. But why was this colossal war machine never completed, ...
Why Hitler Wanted the Ratte. In 1942, as Germany’s fortunes in the Second World War were reversing, the German Wehrmacht met stiff resistance on the Eastern Front against the massive Soviet Union.
And the tank known as P.1000 during development, would have been no exception. Thankfully, the Landkreuzer Ratte (as it has since come to be known) was never built.
Sadly, a Ratte prototype never saw production, but that’s probably a good thing in the end: If any tank’s going to take responsibility for epic trouser-soilings throughout the history of war ...
Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte: A Mobile Fortress? Had it been even possible to build it – and Germany certainly lacked the means after 1943 – it was estimated that it would have cost around $1.4 ...
The past 100 years is filled with insane tanks. ... K-Wagen, and the Panzer VIII Maus—were eventually built, other designs like the Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte were just too crazy to exist.
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