For the record. This tank has a bigger gun diameter than the Schwerer Gustav railway gun. Which is the largest artillery gun ever built. It also weights approximately twice as much as the Maus, which is probably the largest tank ever built. This is cursed xd
In additional, the tank can store 1 round and can't reload, have super slow turn rate/turret turn rate, speed and fight in close combat. So it looks like an expensice suicide machine. 👀
@@burningwings6788 *Designer slapping roof of AC20 boat* This baby can fit so much dilemma in it. If it survives the first shot, we ought not be bothering it in the first place
I love that for the driver to get out of this tank you would have to: A. Go through the gunners hatch (if accessible through drivers compartment) B. Raise the barrel significantly
The largest battleship cannon was .46 meter caliber. The largest gun ever constructed was a railway artillery piece with a bore of .8 meters. Then there's this thing...
@@waffentrager594 The Ratte was designed to have what was essentially a Scharnhorst-class battleship's turret with the central 11" gun removed. What you're thinking of are the historical Schwerer Gustav-class railway artillery guns and the P.1500 Monster tank concept.
So basically the tank captain is sitting on the main gun, and the crew risk their own lives each time they try to fix something on the battlefield and go back into the tank, hoping the gunner ain't firing
just imagine seeing some tank roll up to the battlefield with a cannon taking up like, half of the chassis and thinking, "there's no way that thing can shoot" and then it shoots
That tank shell firing would just tear the tank apart. Make the turret hull longer to fit in a shell, and I'd suggest maybe trying an oscillating turret to fix the cannon vertical control problem mentioned earlier. It would also be cool to have the engine at the end have that bulge you see on the M1 Abrams. Focus less on armor (or just remove it) as it's likely heavy enough (too heavy, anyway) and it would probably work as a very-long range """""self-propelled""""" artillery cannon, surpassing that of naval artillery and even the Gustav railway cannon in terms of sheer barrel width. Add more torque. Also, the ladder handles are too short apart for a proper slot for boots to fit in. The engine hatches should be bigger imo. The commander seat is directly over the cannon barrel, so just pull it back. Make the shells face forward and near the barrel considering its a ONE METER SHELL. If autoloaders existed in Sprocket you would also need that, and you would have to make the turret even longer, probably. The barrel edges don't look THICC enough to support the firing on that shell. Make it like a quarter meter long to be safe. Also it's locked upwards because of the 2 ton counterweight.
file editing in sprocket is so fun, but I tend to make wheeled ratty bois with autocannons or modern MBTs I love your creative uses of components for purposes they werent made for and have personally taken inspiration from sprocket youtubers in my own builds quite frequently.
Feel like this design would have been attached to the Maus hull similar to WaffenTraktor E-100 in world of tanks. This tank would have reduced the armor of the hull to as minimum as possible while having a crane on the back to assist with cannon loading and would need to be proceeded by vehicles with extra munitions. Also the feet you put on the back are exactly used for recoil, just not how you placed them you can find similar designs on the american self propelled artillery m53 and the british fv4005.
You put a massive counterweight on the gun. That is why you couldn't do anything about the gun lifting. I may have still lifted but you would have had a chance if not for that.
in 1831 the French used a 1000 mm mortar to bombard the Dutch citadel in Antwerp, whenever it fired the ground shaked as far away as Malines and St Niklaas...
So to give perspective on how big this cannon is, it's basically 1 meter in diameter or roughly 39 inches after converting the units. The guns on the Iowa class battleships are 16 inches. The guns on the IJN Yamato were 18 inches. Christ, does this thing have a hoist to load the shells and powder?
Considering how heavy that shell probably is I'd just use a big damn crane. You don't even need to eject it since the explosion and recoil would disintegrate the tank
Sorry sir, but I have a question. How did you make sure that you had no problems with the laying drive? I tried a lot of times. But again and again the barrel, and sometimes the enire cannon will point upwards.. Do you know how I could fix this issue, kind regards Guido.
The amount of recoil is very possibly enough to knock over the USS Canberra and even the sturmtiger and the FV4005 and the kv2 combined would not be able to handle it even with all the modern tanks in the world with the amount of recoil control would barely be able to handle it considering it is a 1.5 metre cannon
