Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus: The Heaviest Tank Ever Built 

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@Dillon Brunschon time travel

Germany went full circle when you realize that their heaviest tank from WW2 weights the same as their most modern MBT !

Next project ; Nazi sub-pens in France (and some in Germany), true concrete behemoth.. only defeated by the heaviest bomb ever used in WW2 !

@Megaprojects - Simon, I take my hat off to you Sir! Your self acceptance speaks volumes for your character. My brother has a comb-over of epic comedy proportions. The lengths he goes to to cover up his balding head borders the ridiculous. The hair on his left side is normally short, but on the right it’s 13” long, he combs it over, sprays it with some strong industrial strength hair spray and thinks no one notices. If he would take a queue from you and just hold his head up proud, smile, and carry on, the world would be a better place. Cheers, you ROCK!

Yeah but it was cool and isn't that what it's all about?

Actually, he was doing what Hitler wanted him to do. See my comment above. Stay safe.

The Nazi wonder weapon projects were the gifts that kept on giving for the Allies.

@@oldenweery7510 Except for the time that he produced a bunch of (his version) of the Tiger on his own before the trials were finished. That wasn't at Hitler's orders since he and the Heer hadn't finished the testing trials an determined the winner, which ultimately turned out to not be Porsche.

Lol

Sometimes it takes an army to move a mountain. Sometimes you can stay at home and have the world move around you.😆

Maybe even 6 states. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was a republic State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs for about 4,5 days then it became a kingdom.

That's amazing. Your grandmother should be in the Guinness Book of World Records ha

@@campbellpaul Nah, that was pretty much a normal occurrence for all Austro-Hungarian citizens living through the 20th century. My grandmother was born in 1900 in Prague, Austria-Hungary and lived through the end of the empire, 1st and 2nd Czechoslovak republic, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, all the various state forms of socialistic Czechoslovakia, then she witnessed the short-lived the Czechoslovak federative republic in the early nineties and she died as a citizen of Czech Republic in 1998.

@@wellbi I was kidding

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More like maxing out defense

Imagine that stupid mountain of shit lumbering at you.. only to get butt-sex'd by a 152mm HE shell from a Soviet KV2 hiding in the trees piss drunk on vodka and only hit it because it's the only thing on the battlefield bigger than the KV2 making it nearly impossible to miss even for a very poor. Very drunk. Russian farm kid who got slapped into a Tank last week because he knew how to drive a tractor.

Dexterity and Strength rolled 20s but the rest rolled 1s

Its like a blind person trying to sell you a tv on the basis if how good the picture quality is

I love simon but this has me laughing so hard 😂😂😂

I have seen him with hair, just picture his head upside down as you look at it.

I wholeheartedly agree: Simon with hair on his head would just be wrong. It would be like a full English breakfast with croissants, like a Porsche with bunny ears, like the magnificent White Cliffs of Dover with advertising for French wine, like German Beer with a tinny umbrella - sometimes things without somethings are just right. Hair just don't belong on this magnificent head!

@Aquarian Dawn Ya but Simon's iconic look was made with baldness as one of the iconic features of Simon, it would not be the same

Now we need some photoshops. I want to see him with a proper 80's mullet.

@Aquarian Dawn Okay

Soviets were invading Germany in 1942. Germany had no choice but to throw the dice.

World of Tank players will beat them

Interesting

Here (WT)

@@alexander1485 na, WT better than Wot. Way more realistic

O yeaa (but they removed it :( )

right up there with cold war era, well, just about everything really

Right. Its still mind boggling how far ahead in tech they were. I always wonder what the outcome of WW2 would have been if Germany had more resources and Japan didn't make the mistake of bringing the industrial power of the USA to ww2.

@@nando03012009 they weren’t technologically superior their doctrine was different

@@nando03012009 they weren't so much far ahead as they were willing to put things into service before ironing out the bugs. The US was far from neutral prior to Pearl Harbour but even without their help it's unlikely that the Nazi could capture Soviet oil fields and without that oil, they would be in a world of bother.

This barely counts as tech, they just slabbed 200 tons of steel on an engine and some tracks with a modified naval gun sticking out.

Maus is still the Largest in terms of weight and overall size The 2c is longer by almost 20cm

@@bonearrowgamingcommunity3380 The Japanese superheavy though... That thing was much bigger.

@@kirknay the O-I?

@@jsplicer9 yep

@@bonearrowgamingcommunity3380 Maus was not fielded. Char 2C is the biggest ever tank that saw service. Both were a failure.

Haha good one

If you had nothing better to do - you would find yourself on the East front. Pretty sure the German engineers themselves would come up with all kind of suggestions

Agreed. The Me-210 fighter plane project comes to mind. They tried to make a plane that would do everything, and it delayed the project and caused massive problems. Meanwhile the U.S. and British concentrated on building a great twin engine plane with one job, and then adapting it later, and did well in both cases. The P-38 Lightning and De Havilland Mosquito.

I imagine he would be like a super-rich kid speccing up his super-car with all kinds of extremely expensive options for as long as he possibly could and maybe only using it twice before something else catches his attention or simply refusing to take possession of it.

@@DEP717 Me 410 finally was somewhat useful even at day missions... but the 110 was a nice night fighter .. basically the same line of plane development

It makes me wish they would build a Ratte

Where is it located?

@@mikegike7273 Just outside Moscow. It has a truely amazing collection of vehicles.

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Klingt komisch, ist aber so! ROFL

🤣 I remember that

I see you are a man of culture as well, my friend

@@tmwarthunder1016 That introductory scene of the Maus is what got me to overcome my animephobia and watch the show.

a man of culture!

Oh the humanity! Five bombing range targets

Enough steel for 35 more Panzer IVs.

Find that interesting because there were only 2 hulls so you must be talking about drivetrains and other bits n bobs

No, that's the P-1000 Ratte...

Yeah, you're right!! Stay safe.

You’re the one who’s wrong

Lmao 😆

Well literally Panzer means armor, so the full name of Panzerkampfwagen translates to armored fighting vehicle.

Not really true. She was not the first with a rotating turrent, and naval historians credit more evolutionary, not to mention more successful ships such al Gloire and Warrior with the incremental move from wood to iron. The monitor design of ship was a dead end.

@@shebbs1 I didn't say she had the first rotating turret built, I said she was the first to use one in battle. Though I could have added she was also the first ship to be built with a turret, HMS Trusty, the first ship to get a turret installed, was built without one originally. Also, Gloire and Warrior were not successful. They never saw combat, and they were built along traditional frigate construction. They mostly used sails and had rows of guns built into the hull. A British newspaper stated that the Monitor, with her thicker armor and more powerful and longer range guns, could easily defeat the Warrior. The Warriors sibling classic ironclad frigates, were useless once completed, as they were viewed by the Admiralty as seriously outdated when the Monitor was launched. They put an immediate priority on turret ships instead of classic sailing warships. The Monitor has more successors than any other metal warship. Edward Reed took the design of Monitor and turned it into the breastwork monitor, and then turned that into the Devastation class which became the immediate predecessor to battleships. No warship has ever had such an impact as to literally end a centuries old dynasty as soon as she arrived. But the Monitor did.

@@shebbs1 Also, Monitor was the first ship to give her name to an entire class of ships, used all the way up to the Vietnam War. Only one of ship has the same distinction, and she was not all that revolutionary. Nothing like the Monitor.

The Maus had a Ward-Leonard DC generator motor system like a diesel electric locomotive or a heavy mining truck (which 3 times the size of Maus). One set for each track to let it steer. It didn’t have a reliability issues. The transmission issues on the Panther (not Tiger) relate to the two final drive reducer gearboxes that drove each track sprocket. These were simple straight cut pinion gears. MAN had wanted planetary gears (like Tiger and T34) but there wasn’t enough machine tools. Sherman used herringbone gears. The Maus also didn’t have mobility issues. It could go anywhere in Europe and cross most rivers on rail since 200 tons on rail was fine. If there wasn’t a rail bridge it could drive across underwater powered by a trailing electrical cable powered by a buddy Maus or use a barge or a pontoon bridge. Nothing wrong with the idea. Aircraft would have difficulty hitting it. Rockets just weren't accurate enough.

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs Wehraboo spotted. Don't even have to say anything else. Super heavies are bad, there's no argument.

@@mando_dablord2646 That is not an argument. Super heavy breakthrough tanks weren't tried, that doesn't mean they wouldn't work. These, like Tiger tank, would be specialised vehicles to crack hard nuts. They would be supported by other smaller covering tanks trailing behind and to the side.

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs No, super heavies are logistical nightmares. There were studies done by the allies saying that it just requires to much work for diminishing returns. Your entire argument seems to be just you pulling things out your ass trying to support "but muh Maus." You're asking for lighter tanks to move and support it, which they'd just get picked off themselves. Super heavies would only work defensively, which the Maus couldn't even do since they were abandoned even before a large scale battle reached them. They don't even come close to being able to work as breakthrough tanks. Which you aren't seeming to grasp at the logistical failure that is Super heavies. Didn't work for France, didn't work for Russia, Didn't work for the U.S, and didn't work for Britain. The weight alone on them adds way more stress to the entire tank then it can handle, just because it would theoretically work doesn't mean it actually will. By your logic the allies would have gotten the T28 & Pershing, Tortoise & Centurion, and T-44 going to counter it anyways. But again, logistics and mechanization problems got in the way. Which Germany's mechanization was already imploding on itself at that point. Just look at the JagTiger and Ferdinand to see what happens when large amounts of weight are put on a tank...

@@mando_dablord2646 The T28 never made it to Europe in the end due to the ship cranes not being to carry it, so yeah. The Pershing however was used, the Centurion also started to enter service in the last year

Yes the Big Muskie would be a great video

Give it up, aint gonna happen ;)

Chuck “Big Dick” Yeager

A P-51 could get up to about 450 mph coming out of a dive, within 100 mph or so of the Me-262s top speed. They did shoot down some Me-262s.

Optimal

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Allegedly

Repair kit for T31 a large hammer

The Germans tried to make standardized parts with the E-series but ultimately did not make it in time for the war

That's harsh Someone should tell them that you're driving a flattened beetle

I tease my brother for driving a Messerschmitt and my sister for driving a zero

Hitler's repeated interventions were responsible for that project running late too!

Should have seen the bill without delivery! there's a reason why it has no wipers or rear windows. Id think of poping a cyanide tablet to i ordered 100 and choose extra accessories LoL! Bail on that bill to argentina so fast.

@@aperturemichelle I might be stupid, but I don’t see a driver’s optic anywhere on the maus. How is anyone gonna get there

@@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632 compass? :D

@@GogiTavadze magic compass, maybe

@@danielpope3579 PZIV with the L75 was a very deadly tank

Why the hell did the STG 44 need a battery?

@@ryand2529 to power the Volks emfanger to listen to the Nazi broadcast Radio 😉en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger

Yeah but the STG44 is a RIFLE! Radios weren’t standard issue equipment on those.

@@ryand2529 a vampire pack was also not standard issue . Relax Josh is fooling around. An extra pack of condoms would be more logical

cccpredarmy Nazi solution: Just build Autobahnen everywhere and hope the enemy only exists near those.

That's a rash claim. The Maus had a low ground pressure, low aspect ratio tracks and low peak ground pressure. In fact the overlapping and interleaved wheels of German tanks and half tracks allowed multiple contact points with large diameter wheels that gave them the lowest peak ground pressure versus any tanks Russian or Allied. Remember, the Germans are European and understand those soft soils.

I'd like to have a paper weight shaped like a panzer 8

This reminds me of the Apocalypse tank from _Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2_

His videos are not quite good researched so I expect these mistakes to happen here and there, but it's still quite an interesting show so I watch these videos rather for entertainment than for information.

The panther in development when design with altered to counter the T-34 They added extra, but lost Mobility, mechanical reliability and fuel efficiency Not really a good trade-off

I think it's just cool to hate the prius as it's such a successful vehicle.

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Yeah, this is weird. Are we supposed to snicker at how shitty the amazingly practical, well loved and commercially successful Prius is? Not to mention revolutionary

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After that it will be the very first land-Submarine

The Tiger was ordered before Barbarossa as a breakthrough tank, the KV-1 wasn't massive by any means, Panther is a heavy tank because it weights 44.8 tons when a medium weight between 30 to 35 tons and the Maus was useless paper weight born out the delusions of Hitler.

Or Typhoon

simon is a gifted narrator reading from a prepared script. he doesn't actually spend every waking moment of his life studying arcane bullshit in a giant vaulted library so he can post new videos every 30 minutes on one of his multiple channels. It's hard to believe, I know

@@homuraakemi493 jesus christ he only asked a question

@@homuraakemi493 "arcane bullshit" Are you for real ? The largest military operation in history. Hitler's ultimate downfall. "Arcane bullshit". On a youtube about a German Tank, designed to be used in the same war.

@@homuraakemi493 yea, not like operation Barbarossa had a huge impact on WW2 or anything.

And his ally Japan by June 1942 lost the all important battle of midway. Victory was pretty much in sight for the allies on all fronts by 1942.

I see 1942 as the year the allies started to bring the war toward the axis wannabes. But ai believe that it was still anybodys war. It took the US over a year to develop tactics to actual enemy tactics instead of what "intelligence" thought the enemy tactica would be. It also took over a year to build the vast war machine that the alliea depended on. I would hate to see what would have happened had hitler kept his nonaggression pact woth the USSR or even strengthened it as those 26.6 million souls that gave their lives to mother russia in one form or another would have been the other way around I know the world would be a much different, much more evil place.

The Japanese managed to reduce it to 1% of its weight and crew requirements and translated its name to landcruiser ;)

P1000 and P1500. There was no 1300 XD

@@GrimZJako Shhhh I don't know what you're talking about...

@@vsGoliath96 You know very well. Xdddd

@@mjouwbuis they must have managed to improve it's toughness by 10000% too.

Doom turtle ftw! Oh wrong place? Let me just slowly relocate. Lol

@@warmon6 Waited a month for you to relocate to the other side of cap ;)

@@mashrien i cant help it, the cap is 10km wide and the other side is up a mountain. Doom turtle not a mountain goat! 😂

Ikr. Alot if these topics have been covered many times, but its Simon's personality that keeps me around.

They could convert it to solar power. ;-)

*YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy

@@Mrtweet81 It was (13 hours or so ago) that it was posted. So: you're WAY TOO LATE IN YOUR COREECTION !

Now you're thinking like a true megalomaniac dictator!

Bismarck was actually quite small compared to yamato nagato or Iowa

Well it's technically not a tank with no turret, I believe it's still the heaviest armored fighting vehicle to ever see combat at 79 tons (heavier then the current Abrams) I thinks it's gun is the largest antitank cannon ever used in combat as well

Welcome Ted, we’ve been waiting for you.

Indeed. It should be for stealing the designs for both the beetle and the similar rear engined sportscars.

I can imagine the treads sinking into the muck!!

Bro it'd get stuck on any ol' rock or debris in its path, itd be risky asf imo

I don't know, should I call it a submarine?

That's a weird thing to have as a favourite.

@@MrCarpelan nah bc there's alot to learn about ww2.

Technically not a tank.

@@ehtuanK Super Heavy Tank T28 and Stridsvagn 103 (without turret)

No turret. No tank.

That's what Orwell meant with newspeak

German humour is all sarcasm all day.

True, but you need to consider a whole picture of how it was supposed to be used. Far too often people simply pitch one weapon system against the other. It's like saying that, I don't know, StuG was a bad weapon because it could not rotate a turret and was easy to hit from the sky. All true, but every weapon is designed to be used in a specific environment and situation. Same goes with Maus. Could it BE used in an environment it was designed for? Probably not by the time the war was at the end. But it was designed as a heavy support/mobile bunker for ground troops, where air superiority was a thing. If you go with that "oh, planes would just shoot it", then NO TANK is ever good, because every one of them is a child's play to shoot up like that. Army is a heavy interconnected system and no weapon system can be simply pitched against another one and then passing judgement. It does not work that way - at least not if you want to be serious.

@@Wustenfuchs109 agree,vehicles like these that are big and expensive wont be going alone,the lose would be too great,they would probably be escorted by planes or spaa.

The Maus would have worked. 1 Its heavy armour on the side allowed it to survive attacks by medium and heavy tanks even there. 2 It was fully mobile. It could go anywhere in Europe or cross any bridge on rail. It could cross rivers through barges, pontoon bridges or drive under water being electrically powered by a companion Maus. Yes there would be combat engineers involved but that's what they are there for. Even ordinary tanks need them. 3 Rockets fired from P-47 and Typhoons were proven to be inaccurate and they wracked up few kills, probably no more than 0.5%. 4 The Maus would be supported by heavy and medium tanks to its rear and rear sides. 5 Like Tiger it was a heavy breakthrough tank.

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs yes a break through tank is exactly what you need when you’re purely on the defensive and loosing ground every day. Also there’s a good chance that most of them would just be abandoned on the side of the road do to getting stuck or catching itself on fire do to it’s horrible drivetrain design. It was already a job and a half to repair broken panthers and tigers so I’m not sure what they were expecting to do when these things started breaking down like all of there other heavy tanks

@@grandadmiralthrawn8116 A KV-1 often held up the German advance by days. Tiger tanks either held up the advance or the allies avoided them. These tanks would be part of a system, including AAA.