Would the Maus Have Been Effective?
Some Historians Believe That If Enough of Them Had Been Produced and Deployed, Maus Tanks Could Have Changed the Outcome of Wwii. .. . the Effectiveness of...
Some historians believe that if enough of them had been produced and deployed, Maus tanks could have changed the outcome of WWII. ... The effectiveness of tanks in battle had been proven quite conclusively in WWI, and development in tank design had advanced in leaps and bounds in the decades since then.
Was the Maus ever used in combat?
The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was one such weapon. It was impractical and also huge — so huge it holds the record for the heaviest fully-enclosed tank ever built. ... The Maus (likely) never saw combat as the Soviets overran the Kummersdorf proving grounds on April 21, 1945, capturing Germany's two prototypes.
Why did the Maus fail?
Porsche went through several design changes before settling on an MB 517 Mercedes-Benz diesel engine for the second prototype. However, the engine failed during its first trial due to a broken crankshaft.
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