Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: The Mighty Maus
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3:46 that guy is either the bravest or stupidest man ever. Hey Kraus ve need to make sure ze jack works. Go valk under ze Maus.
Well, someone has to do it
It's definitely a situation where it pays to NOT be the lowest-ranking crew member.
mechwar31 Well maybe he is clever...because not doing his job = firing squad.
mechwar31 I guess, 200t tank falling on you is as dangerous as 10t tank
Usually tank jacks are these beefy looking apparatuses, but in this case the maus is being held up by a little sticklike brace. It just look ridicules.
Fun fact: The gun mantlet was made by German shipmakers as they were the only ones with the facitities to bend a piece of metal that big.
They BENT it ? I always thought it was a straight up cast, since it looks so crude around the edges
@@darkySpGermans rarely used cast, they didn’t have the facilities like USSR or U.S. to do casting, that’s why panther and tiger have blocky turrets
Hitler : So how will this tank help us advance into the enemy lines?
the guy who made the maus : dis boi thiccccccccc
More like the other way around
True Reaper45 I’m unsure even Hitler would like this thing
** I mean I don’t think the Hitler designed the tanks. He was a chancellor, not a general
@@dualrotorhelicopter engineer the word you're looking for is engineer.
@@dualrotorhelicopter no he ordered 2 prototypes
the tank next to him was like "HI im karl nice to meet ya."
LUL
it was adam.
Ziu, not Adam.
@@theducklover2652 LIL GUSTAV HAS THE DRIP
I'm 6'5" or 1.98m, depending on your preference
Maus be 10m long boi
My height Expectancy is 6’7-6’10. But who cares lmao. I’k people will argue and think I’m lying but who cares it’s the world we live in unfortunately.
If you were almost 2 meters then your like 7 or 8 feet tall.
@@rizzmo8451 He's 1.96m going by the 6'5"
also 6'7" is 2m.
@@ValentineC137 Yeap.I dont have a 6.7 but I am like Thanos...
“This is the most indestructible tank we’ve ever created”
Field Mechanics: *nervous laughter*
To be entirely fair, IF they managed to get it TO a battlefield in WW2, nothing short of repeated bombing runs would have been able to take it out.
the is7 could penetrate it frontally from the angled plate, somehow, they say its high quality APHEBC
is 7 was made in 1945, after the war i belive@@bombasspatriot
The Maus was reliable, easy to produce, and overall helped the Germans win WWII.
I wanted to let you guys know this five years later. I was completely trolling and you all fell for it.
Lol Go Home You Drunk
M10 Wolverine i remember WWII like it was yesterday maus's taking flight while the Americans hid
bad b8
No it didn't even take part....it was a secret weapon until the allies discovered it. It went through prototype.
Had was hard to build because the factory producing them was constantly bombed.
Restore the MAUS Restore the MAUS Restore the MAUS !!!
You do realize that it's going to be cheaper to build a new one?
John Doe proof
thats not the point
what for? That thing is so big you need to build a hangar around the tank. You couldn't take it to Tankfest because of its mass and it probably could only move 5-10 kph
ofc in running condition :)
Finally! A tank with room for the entire family!!
lol sickle and hammer, they've even painted it wrong xD
call it "fake"
MMMMMilash yep
MMMMMilash
It's been 11 months but it was painted on so the allies though it would be a Russian prototype and not German if it would be captured.
Gabe Varley
We got that. His point is it's painted wrong so any half-competent Ally spy would be able to tell it's not the actual USSR emblem.
If the German who painted it did it the right way, he would have been shot as a commie subversive. He was protecting his hide.
It would be easy to do track maintenance. Just flip it over on its back, and flip it back when you're done. Simples. What do you mean, heavy? They said it was a mouse!
Ah so the Panther really is a Warthog, just like Sarge said
Your calling the Panzers trash!?!?!? Unbelievable disrespect
Small in name, but NOT in nature.
The Nazis did believe that they were Supermen, so they probably thought they could just lift up.
@@kapjoteh It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? why are we here? are we the product of some cosmic coincidence or is there really a god, watching everything, with a plan for us and stuff? I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.
They're going to be restoring the maus if anyones is interested
TheXtraMan99 in real life bro
idk if they would do that, my cousin said they were interested in RUSSIAN tanks only
Where?
Did they restore it?
@@jointaimbot55 right I wanted to know my self so far nothing.
you would not like that thing falling on u while changing the wheel
190 tons? yeah, You'd be dead before you even realised what happened...
+Patrick O'Hare agreed
I was thinking that too o-o
so even if you dont feel a thing you want that thing to fall on you??? :O creepy bro
Well you wouldn't need to be buried!
5:32 - Soviet soldier slav squatting inside captured german Wunderwaffe, 3/9/1945 (Colorized)
The squat is not the slav squat tho
When the Chieftain scoffed at the idea of replacing the mg with a 20mm auto-cannon I was like "Hell yeah, since we're just mounting cannons all over the place might as well make it a 20mm!"
The Maus shall live again. Thanks to Wargaming funding a reconstruction of the parts and design from schematics, eventually, we will see a Maus moving again for the first time since 1945. And a sight that shall be.
Then 'Muricans will bid it and make it their car.
accualy gaijin is funding the maus being rebuild after the t-35 is done
wargaming is funding other tanks
accualy gaijin is funding the maus being rebuild after the t-35 is done
wargaming is funding other tanks
KrK007 - Lol their money means their designs, what you will see will be a Maus according to them, but structure and mechanics wise, I doubt the strength would be made the same, especially from a cost perspective, making a real exact Maus vs making a replica would cost thousands, im sure they will chose replica as it's a more realistic cost to them.
Still nothing after 3 years
Maus is getting restored AT LAST! Get ready to make an Inside the Hatch version!! :D
Russian raged at his and said NOPE! Resstoration is talked about.. BUT! NOPE! No german tank gets priorited before an russian tank.. So.. maybe in 50 years?
i wanna drive no better yet ill buy a russian tank maybe a t34 since you can buy demilled tanks and drive them around. drive up to college like whats up bitches xD.
Only way you could do that is if you would get tracks with rubber pads ,the t34 has steel tracks and thous could breack the asfalt roads ,also i would suggsest something better than a t34 ,maybe sherman ,more ruum and easyer to drive with less clunky gearbox and alot less maintenens ,or you could go with something more modern like a paladin ,i wan to get a tiger 1 ,but the big dream is to buy a mous ,maybe build it on my own
olluman123 Tiger 1's are extremely hard to get better yet even rarer if its in working order the one they have on the tank museum. It would be better to look up the tank specs and and get the parts made and get people to build it for you.
Well ,im more of a hands on kind of guy ,i really hope that you dont buy a t34 ,it really is not a good tank,
Pray you don't get tracked while in combat
this guy
It has sidearmor ...
not only maus should
tracked from the front obviously. tracks are particularly weak from the front but op at the sides
Quantum Razgriz - That applies to all tanks, anytime a tank gets tracked in battle its Immobilized, leaving it open and an easy target.
They need a rich tank enthusiast to to rebuild this tank internally.
3:46 that guy was probably scared as hell
to the left of the tank WAS THAT THE KARL
Yes
the Karl Thor -.-
The Mörser Karl? It actually does!! I think it is actually
it looks like it😃😃😃😃😃
pretty much , yep.
How could a nation fighting Russia get the Hammer-and-Sickle emblem the wrong way round?
I think its more that they held themselves as vastly superior to they're enemy that they figured no one would notice
becouse a hanz traped in stalingrad dos not know if this tank is on the're side or nah so if he sez a cicle wrong way he well IN THEORY should think that it is on it's side
littered with human flesh and blood
@Mske *Hakenkreuz
Didn’t care they had Maus.
I LOVE that eye roll at 4:16, "because, why not"
bloody Germans
it's really more "bloody hitler". he was obsessed with retardedly huge impractical land ships. dude probably had a micropenis.
deadpan237 "obsessed with retardedly huge impractical land ships" have you seen what the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte, and Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster would have been like? p1000 wouldve been 1000 tons and made the maus look puny and probably insignificant at the same time, p1500 would've been 1500 tons and was an artillery that would have carried an 800mm main gun
look them both up on wikipedia theres more info on each there
i would post links but youtube doesnt allow that :(
Jan Siok citation needed
I dont need no citations I make it on my own mind
Siddios uuhhhmmm, im german, and i dont know a city named "Nuremberg"...
I hope u mean "Nürnberg"...
Here’s a tank with a big cannon for structures, A medium cannon for vehicles, and anti aircraft cannon for other vehicles.
And machine gunner for infantry.
I think i understand why the Maus has no handlebars to get on top on, the ferdinand had no machine gun so infantry could just walk up to the tank, open the hatch and shoot the crew. The Maus is so big it's hard to get up on without handlebars so infantry couldnt just climb the maus and shoot the crew, because the maus has no machine gun for infantry as well.
It had a Coax MG?
Didnt he say they threw away the idea?
***** That's a 75mm cannon. Not a 20mm.
And the infantry wouldn't just climb on and open the hatch. If you don't know about tank hatches, they lock on the inside.
the fear is well known, if you have open ports, enemies will try to chuck grenades into it. maus had a flamethrower for infantry. plus if someone did get up to a port hole and stick their gun into it, (maybe a commander port) the bullets will ricochet all around the interior harming the crew.
I remember when I was flying my Maus when from out of nowhere an enemy Iowa fired his main batteries so I landed in an SPAA hiding place and brought out my pocket folding M60 Patton but the propeller wouldnt start up so I bought the Battleship Dunkirk but the turret was to heavy so the autoloader took to long to reload and then I realized I was on my tenth beer.
I remember swimming through the T57 Heavy but then my Sheridan flew me up to my Chaffee I ran to the enemys but there ducks killed my Maüschen. Then i relised. I'm on my 13th beer
There was no need for hand/foot holds. The Maus was so big, the crew lived in it.
Yeah, they kept a couple goats in the engine compartments and grew potatoes on the turret floor.
Tank to gun : " you ok ? you feel small."
Gun to tank : " I'm doing my best."
You all saw Karl in the background right?
Yes it is a rebuilt of the Mörser „Karl“ (Gerät 040) on the gun is the nickname "Adam" but it was renamed to "Baldur" in the middel of the WW 2
Sry for bad english i am german
Anal Ritter how dose it feel that the maus tank is in a commie museum in russia and they wont even ever repair it and they replied with rude words about restoring this tank
dan danny
perhaps you should read offical comments not on FTR.
The Maus is to be restored but after the T35.
dan danny They wanted to restore the T35 FIRST, Because the WWII Vets of the Soviet Union (Stalin Bless them) are getting up their ages, and they want one last "Hurrah" before they die.
After that, the Maus is one the front burner again.
Yep
what about the karl howitzer next to it
Karl gerät
more like a mortar than a howitzer
It's the Adam mortar. Not the Karl. You can see it on the side
In fact it is Ziu (nr VI), labeled as Adam for unknown reason. Fate of nr. I (Adam) is not known.
Lifting a 100 ton behemoth, and standing under it to work on something. Yea, no. I'd like to keep my head... and my body.
You either crawl under the tank or be shot for insubordination.
does it really matter? 1 tonne? 10 tonnes? 100 tonnes? 1000 tonnes? The result would be the same.
well, you don' normally stand under a tank since most maintenance are done without lifting one up in the first place. Even when tanks are jacked up, you don't need to get under the tank to work on it. Not the case with the Maus since tracks don't have access hatches unlike every other tank with armored skirts.
@@jackvernian7779
The heavier the tank is the faster and more painless it will be
You Mean 188 Ton
Dear god, that camera angle down by the turret ring really brings the scale home, especially in contrast to anything else.
And to tanks of the era!!!
I feel lucky that I got to see this monster up close when I was in Moscow in 2001. I even have a picture of me on top of Karl and the Tiger in this museum. Can't remember why I didn't have a picture on top of Maus, but perhaps my Russian soldier guides didn't have access to a ladder.
imagine if the germans had actually built a P1000 "RATTE" (rat) which is like a maus with steroids, Or even the P1500 monster. Could have been quite a sight to see if they had been built.
Maus was never known as the P500....
Panzergrenadier Productions It wasn't? hmm i was told that Maus is just an added name. Guess i should have checked if it was correct or not...
VK100.01 / Porsche Type 205 was its designation, and Maus was a name coined to deceive Allied intelligence.
Panzergrenadier Productions ah ok thanks for the info :)
No problem.
(Get outside Chieftain's hatch)
Chieftain:*gets inside*
Viewers:*confused pikachu face*
good stuff...enjoyed you taking time to point out all the details of this massive tank.... its legendary...thanks!
4:11 to 4:16 "because... why not?" XD
There's such an obvious tone through this presentation of "I can't believe someone thought any part of this was a good idea."
I heard they were going to restore the maus and there's also a trailer on it too if you want to learn more about it!
You cant restore something that was never fully built in the first place.
wg tried to fund a restorationplan for the maus and kubinka turned it down as a t35 was more important
bastex
how can your restore a tank that was never fully built in the first place?
thunberbolt two The T-35 was built.
Biased Sherman
What does a Russian tank have to do with the Maus?
The Germans were no doubt clever designers and engineers...but why is it the only thing clever about this tank is it's name being an oxymoron?
i wonder how did they lose ww2 anyway , when they where so smart
@@hassanlabyad4082 yes
@@tomobraica4399 it wasnt that bad like shown in the video this is a fake maus
Alexander Vollmar even the maus is big and a god against other tanks it have a bad mobility and its a big n juicy target for air force
Alexander Vollmar as the tank wars were even more complicated and they were focused on tank and anti-tank tactics but hilter didnt listen
This tank is not a tank is a terminator created to destroy all!
No that would be the p 1000 ratte
Lord Dim 1 No that would be the P 1500
+RAI DEN nope, its the T-26!
Yet any modern shell fired by a MBT would go straight though it...
No if change his armor to modern composite armor. On hull have better angles that Abrams.
western spy squat... Imposter
best comment so far :D I thought the same
Its fantastic to finally see inside it !!!
Therapist: Maus with 15 cm gun doesn’t exist it can’t hurt you
Maus with 15 cm gun: thumbnail
This is Not okay lol
Maus wasn't a good idea.
1) Run over small, common AT mine.
2) Get tracked. Since a common detracking is a DEPOT level repair for such a huge tank, crew groans and does nothing.
3) Have to wait patiently for a gigantic (not yet invented at prototyping) tank recovery vehicle to pull you out, which will take several hours.
4) Giant, juicy tank gets bombed by every fighter-bomber in the area during that several hours.
5) Armor which has no problem against a 122mm to the glacis plate dies quickly and horribly against multiple 500-lb semi-armor piercing bombs to the turret roof.
6) PROFIT ??? Not if you're the Germans, you don't. More like SQUANDER ???.
Also it was much to heavy to cross any bridges they planned for it to be submersible with a snorkel.
Haha
"Mein Fuhrer, no bridges yet exist in the sum experience of human engineering that can hold the Maus safely."
"So it can't cross rivers?"
"That's what I'm saying, Mein Fuhrer..."
"I see... so what you're saying is... it needs to be waterproof so it can cross on the riverbed?"
"....no, that's not at all what I'm saying...in fact that will make it heav-"
"Excellent plan! Amphibious stealth assault super-heavy tank! I approve! Make the necessary changes immediately!"
lol actually one i found funny.
Profit = while they attempts to land a 500lb bomb on the tank you take down all those planes with flak
It was meant to assault with infantry I reckon, if it's hurt to that extent they set u p a defense with some AA guns, or they thought of this and send like 3 wirbels.
That slide at the end sold me on
Very interesting and infromative, even though there wasn't much to see. Bloody hell the inside of that tank is flipping hunormous!
These episodes are great. Keep me coming guys..
What about “Oh my God, the Maus is on fire?”
*_"Oh bugger, the museum is on fire."_*
"Oh bugger. 8.7 again."
What a mighty Maus...
Reference?
As is, that Maus would make a nice Mobile Home for a family of four.
1:16 behind him is Karl!!!!!
i think is the lorraine, tier 2 arty french
@@rodrigoferro1675 nah its a karl
only way to destroy a maus is a hetzer, type 89, and a Pz IV ausf H
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
+Sam Arcade hetzer cant pen maus, or type or pz iv cuz have 200 mm frontal armor, 185 side armor, 160 rear armor , the frontal turet armor is 240 mm , in sides 210 and rear turet 210
That Girls Und Panzer reference doe.. 😂😂
shhhhhhhhhhh
+Sam Arcade ;)
Hahahaha, Oh this guy is absolutely brilliant! I was worried at the start of the video they wouldn't let him get inside, I'm glad they did for us all to see!
Awesome video! At least I finally got to see what was inside of this Maus tank even if it's empty. I've always been curious.
Inside the TOG?
Wargaming Europe has "Inside the tank" series with another veteran tanker. One episode is for tog 2.
Inside the TOG II. HELLA LOAD OF SPACE
lol TOG is like the first armoured limo with a cannon
Why did the russians even blow both of them up ? Did they just want to see the biggest tank on the planet blow up ? I would, but not twice.
***** Ah okay that makes more sense. Or maybe the nazi's blew it up themselves ?
the german's didn't blow the maus. it was abandoned by the soldiers who operated it when they heard GERMAN FALLS WHEN HITLER COMMIT SUICIDE.. IT WAS THE RUSSIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ivier palero
Just like (aboomination) said, Germans always destroyed their tanks, the same happened with Tiger tanks too, because they didn't want that technology and other stuff would fall into their enemies hands, a.k.a. UK/US/RU hands. Single Tiger tank only got captured, even in working condition, it is being held in UK museum if I'm not mistaken, and once a year, or more, Tiger is being powered up and have few circles for audience to check out tanks. Why only one got captured and not blown up ? The crew was so desperate that they didn't even set charges and just ran away...that Tiger was up against few Churchill's in desert.
***** It got a 6 Pounder round (I think. Not very knowledgeable about UK tanks) wedged between the turret and hull. Jammed.
***** Please go reread the comments.
I am laughing hysterically!... this thing is so crazily big... I 'am watching him go through his counts, and can't stop laughing... and I am a German tank enthusiast... for 50 years... I love this.. I am KINDA 'sad', that we don't have a working version... nice.
Insane!! The tank even makes Chieftain look small lol
"So, how much armor do you want?"
"Yes."
"How fast do you want your tank to break down?"
*Yes*
Karl in the background
At 1:11
Awesome tank I just ordered a Maus Dragon kit in 1/35 scale can't wait till it arrives to build
At first this video made me excited and towards the end where I find out that it's pretty much gutted made me cry a little I'll never see one of these run
restore the maus
I love this tank
still totally awesome to see the inside of it.
thanks man I never knew so much about the maus
The Germans really had A sence of Humour, Naming the biggest Tank ever the 'Mouse'
Ironically, thr biggest design for a tank was called the Ratte
This is old but i want to add something: the smalles "tank" the germans made was called "Goliath". It was a remote controlled mini-tank loaded with explosives.
Maus*
Wargaming should put together a fund with other millionaire/billionaires and donations to rebuild tanks like this. As well as build "paper-only" tanks to see how they would perform. Open up for donations too; id put in some money to see how the Maus would have performed!
Or even use them in war in afghanistan or something. Would be nice to see how they would perform
costs too much for nothing
It ould still be worth checking inside the tank even with the missing equipment. There are mountings and partitions etc. One can visualize the missing parts
What im noticing is the fantastic welding on the joins despite corrosion through time
I can only imagine what it would be like if the E-100 was completed.
No No
Panzer Dragon wow
Germans gonna heat spam
They finished a hull prototype but got captured by Americans...sadly they didn't build a turret and have a fully functional E-100
I would like seeing this thing alive again, imagine an modern tank stuck in an corner in an city, noticing an maus driving around an corner and pointing the gun at this modern tank. The commander would be like " ahhhw i hate this job"
Doesnt sound too bad, the 128mm will do precisely nothing to modern composite armour.
T0mm3n 128 at point blank range, if it hits the modern tanks its over. Maus armor is made to bounce 128 cm or less even at point blank range, but modern tanks are designed to not get hit and if they get hit, most times they dont get directly hit, but on almost point blank range its not an good sign for the modern tanks...
T0mm3n not true really. modern tanks are a lot softer than you'd think.
babs beaver on like 150 meters away the projectile has its full power, it will go in wirh such an power, an direct hit will penetrate.
Davy Jones Considering the 12.8 had max pen values laughably short of modern mbts effective thickness, nothing would happen. Think of how much more energy a modern sabot round has compared to the 12.8, the 12.8 is not even in the same ball park. Modern sabots have well over double the kinetic energy compared to the 12.8 and still can have issues getting penetration frontally.
i LOVE this series! DO MORE!!!!!
The only tank that Chieftain feel comfortable to stay inside. Congratulations!
yay!! its in war tunder now!!
This comment didnt age very well
@@siva4wotblitzhero531 Haha, that's true
The Review in a nutshell: "T H I C C"
*Thanks for informative video bro!!!*
This little thing on the back would be a flamethrower, because... because why not lol
3:45 i would not like to stand under there.
me too
I like your profile picture (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
King Pervert
It's lovely indeed
that thing weighs a estimated 188 tons or something like that
Still looks better than the inside of the IS-7
Germans actually cared about crew comfort.
+finsfan90 Try the inside of a Hetzer...
+Ronald de Rooij
Thats different, big Hetz is supposed to be small and stealthy. And thats only one example. Whereas no Russian tanks were ever roomy. Ever.
+finsfan90 So the Germans cared more about stealth than crew comfort. Just saying. I think that is a wise choice if you want to survive a war.
3:46
NO WAY THAT MAN IS LIFTING 188 TONS
It's remarkable that it survives at all. Still interesting to see what dose still exists.
Do the T95
I wish someone would attempt completion of this tank. I would love to see it it road march and shoot with traversing turret.
a lot of people wanted kubinka to restore but it was passed up because they had to restore the "amazing t35 soviet tank" and it promptly broke down on parade
@@bringbackthebattleships261hey’re still using the t-35 as of recent and it seems fine to me.
now this have subtitles and is short i can see how good is this serie :P
Not a practical fighting vehicle but is most definitely awesome.
I heard the Kubinka Tank Museum in Europe along with many steel factories are going to build a real life full scale working replica of the German Maus VII Heavy Tank! That's going to be so cool.
Jamie Olberding where did you read that? just curious
cheiftan can you do a video on the Karl mortar next to the mouse.
it's Maus
+Someone You dont know it's English name directly translated means mouse.
+Someone You dont know Maus is mouse....
Megaladon7k yep he does have the now new flexibility without the inside to be a mouse in my wall the buggers only need a tiny crack to go anywere
I love the warning for "violence" in this video.
this thing is MASSIVE would have been a scary sight if ever put into action
1:12 is that karl in the background?
P.S i know it says adam but its the same tank OK?
Yes that is the karal,they were all named and they were only able to get "adam"
awww i love karl and his brother adam very english names for germans though
Adam is karal
The first six karals had the nicknames "Adam" (later "Baldur"), "Eva" (later "Wotan"), "Thor", "Odin", "Loki", and "Ziu"; the seventh, the research and test weapon (Versuchs-Gerät), had no name. In 1945, Nr. II ("Eva") as well as Nr. V ("Loki") were captured by US forces in the period 21 March to 11 April 1945. Nr. VII, the test weapon, was captured by the US Army in Hillersleben and shipped to Aberdeen Proving Grounds but later scrapped.[21] Nr. VI ("Ziu") was captured by the Red Army, probably when they overran Jüterbog on 20 April 1945. This is on display at Kubinka, although marked as Nr. I ("Adam").[22] Nr. IV ("Odin") was also captured by the Red Army. The fates of guns Nr. I ("Adam") and Nr. III ("Thor") are not known.
-wiki
i understood some of that but not all of it but thanks anyway lol
IS THAT KARL!!!!!!!!! 1:19
Yes
not able to take off skirt seems a problem, until you realize - there is a full-grown *chieftain* standing upright next to it.
maybe you could access them from the inside? Seeing how theres plenty of room (height-wise at least) between ground and hull ceiling?
I wish someone would make a running replica if the real one isn’t built. The replica would have way thinner armor or be made of wood just for ease maintenance and weight saving of course, not like anyone would notice. If they can make replicas of larger vehicles like the A7v and Mk IV then surely they can make a replica Maus
Theres no inside because the maus is a friccin brick
Anyone's guess how they thought that this "tank" (more like a bunker on tracks) was going to change anything that late in the war. One Maus against 1000 T-34s or M4 Shermans? There was no way that this monster was going to impact the war in Germany's favor. Too expensive, too labor intensive (to build and maintain), impossible to move around, huge demand for fuel, a big target, etc. It was a failure even before they even started building one prototype. But Hitler was crazy for superheavy tanks and military equipment which sounded good on paper (i.e. the V3 Englandkanone).
I think it would be good as a mobile pillbox, like to prevent the D-Day landings, except it was too big to fit onto a train. Beyond that, no
Garrett Montgomery
Yes. He actually wanted a bigger gun on it because it didn't look big enough in relation to the body.
Actually, it was less than a third of what you posted, and many of his kills are believed to actually been from the tanks under his command. It was common practice to take credit for all the tanks kills be the tanks in your group.
+Corristo89 One Maus against 1000 T-34s? Easy cake, the poor 76mm guns would only scratch its camouflage (just look at the 122mm impact on it), the problem would be the lack of enough ammo. After that you have crush them by running them over with your 185 ton tonk.
Actually, by 1945, they were mostly variants of the T-34/85 with an 85mm gun, they would have been much better at killing a Maus. However, mobile artillery would have been best, since the Maus was so cumbersome.
Ending slide like a boss
Its a big tank when the only real way to get off of it is to use the upper glacius as a slide