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As much as that concept did not worked out, thankfully, like many other crazy machines invented, it sure served as a great foundation for the technology of Warhammer 40,000

Even in the 40s, even in crazy land Germany, I can't believe anyone thought this was a good idea! Its a giant slow moving target.

I would be amazed if the tank was actually created and could move at a whopping 25mph. That's insanely fast for something of its size.

Imagine being a crew of the Ratte and being hit multiple times by a barrage of aerial bombs. Shell shock would be an understatement.

I’d love to see a full scale model in a museum. I bet it’d look amazing up close!

What was not mentioned in this video is how despite the ratte designed to weigh 1,000 tons, they did construct the turret which weighed 600 tons alone and it was only supposed to be around 1/3 of the total weight

The P1000 Ratte Tank was like a straight out of a final boss from video games

How to survive the tank in 1 step: Just drive around it. The maus was slow, this tank would be even slower.

It makes sense that if the panzer 1000’s precursor was called a mouse, then this one would be called a rat. They are both rodents, with the rat (or ratte in German) being bigger than a mouse/maus.

Land cruiser now: big car Land Kreuzer then:

Consuming 60 gallons of fuel per minute while going 25MPH, the "Rat" would have gotten gas mileage of 144 gallons per mile. By comparison, the Crawler-Transporter that carried Apollo Saturn Vs to the launch gantries got 125 GPM.

I've heard of this one, it was meant to be a tank with a naval deck gun for a turret (as they made way to many to fit on their ships) and it would have been transported on a giant mega-train which they also planned to make, but was cancelled as the allies had air dominance that not even the ratte's AA guns could fight.

Imagine driving one of those nowadays with the gas prices that would cost like 2700$ a hour

2:14 iirc, the main battery/turret of the Ratte would come from the Gneisenau battleship with the 28cm guns which was also used for coastal defenses in the Atlantic Wall anything bigger than the Ratte would be the Schwerer Gustav or the P1500 Monster 2:51 the Maus and Entwicklung E100 were both the precursors of the Ratte, since the E100 was also a project with only the hull being built while the Maus having 2 prototypes 7:01 for anyone wondering what this tank is, its the Henschel VK36.01 heavy tank, being known as the Tiger 1’s prototype 15:20 naval bombardment and air bombardment is really the only thing the Allies can do against it, or it can be infiltrated by sabotages and disable the vehicle

I do genuinely wonder if the designer was a planted inside guy who pitched an idea so crazy that it's primary purpose was to strain supply lines and run them down to aid in turning the war around. It just had to sound believable or at a very minimum, plausible, to who he was pitching it to.

It would with high probability brake down by the sheer weight, even with the powerful engines the tank would be underpowered, the Mercedes-Benz MB 517 engine was supposed to give maus 20kph even at crossroad but could only push it to around 16kph(and non were send to combat since the super heavy tank projects were abandon in 1944 and they were both blown up to prevent capture by the red army) And the britts would probably just send some lancaster bombers to drop grand slams at it

The Landkreuser P100 Ratte must've been a monstrosity. It's big (1000 tons big) and slow (~25mph slow), making it unreliable, and plus, it would take up TONS of resources.

basically, the Bismarck on land. A huge, impractical metal fortress meant more for distracting the allies from more important tasks than to actually be a good fighting machine.

The main fact about this tank is, yeah it would work in a lot of ways. For one, as old training videos for American soldiers on how to defeat tanks tells me this tank would demolish the allies since they wouldn’t know a thing about how to deal with them. These tanks would crush soldiers in their fox holes, American anti tank weapons would be useless, Molotovs couldn’t he thrown into their air vents, etc. Sure, urban combat wouldn’t be possible with it. And if the ground was even slightly wet it would sink into the ground. And it just wouldn’t be able to cross into Britain or even Africa. It also would make it impossible to continue building enough other tanks since they were so expensive and inefficient to build. But it could do a lot of damage…. For probably about a month until the allies realize it’s problems and tear them to shreds with traps like soaked ground making it sink into the ground, bombs specifically designed to target its tracks with immense heat, tactics of misleading German forces wasting immense resources to move the tank, etc. It’s understandable why it may have looked promising, but really once you get past how big and powerful it is it isn’t reliable at all.

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Massive tank: We own this continent of Europe Allies: *I'm about to end this whole man's career*

I always think that huge tank was about to crush that soldier struggling to run away

Yeah lets have a giant weaponized apartment complex with massive cannons on it! Not like they can just drop a bomb or two on it from a long distance in the air

I imagine it would have been very effective as a PSYCHOLOGICAL weapon, but would serve better as a mobile command center or or mobile artillery piece than a legitimate tank

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If Nuclear Power was available earlier, the P.1000 and P.1500 might have managed to become a reality.

If this was on the allied side, this would have done good damage

Lol the fact that they really tried to build a tank that troops could live in is beyond insane.

I wonder if we can build this thing with modern technology; it won't ever be used in actual combat, but just to see if this mobile fortress is even possible. It would look pretty cool in military parades, not gonna lie.

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Lol at putting one of these monstrosities on top of another. "A platoon of monstrosities" was funny, too

They should have built a large inflatable version of this and leaked documents about it to draw in allied forces/resources in tackling it, believing it to be a real threat.

there was a huge missed opportunity to design an aircraft carrier version

Not to mention the famous mid season in the Soviet Union and the effects on a 1000 ton tank that you couldn’t move once it got stuck

The ratte would have definitely shortened the war, in favor of the allies. Not enough resources for anything else.

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Germany’s emphasis on trying to field the most advanced tanks may have contributed to their downfall as constant iterations kept production costs high as they couldn’t achieve economies of scale by finding a workhorse to produce in large numbers. Meanwhile, the allies were building a massive army of T-34s and M4 Shermans which may not have been the most advanced tanks but they got the job done.

I wonder how can the Rattes do against a nuke

Big tank small man. Yall someday this is gonna be built.

Next could yall upload what will the earth look like when all the world's ice melts??

At the time, they had the turrets available from the Gneisanau (the second of the 2 Scharnhorst class of battle cruiser) the Gneisanau in world of warships shows what upgrades it was getting before those upgrades were cancelled The 3, triple gun 11 inch turrets would be reduced to 2 guns with modification, so per ratte tank 3 (or 5 if two more turrets were made) Ratte tanks could have come around Double that to 6 (or 10 depending on what happens) Ratte tanks could exist if all 6 turrets from both scharnhorst class ships were taken (sorry this is so long, I just thought I'd mention it)

this tanks rails are extremely exposed and can easily be destroyed making it stuck where it was ...its exremely unreliable

Let's relive this legendary tank in a video game.

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So glad he finally made a video on this!

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18:32 Black Sea: ight imma head out

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Yo this would’ve looked so fire in person! and would’ve been a little bit more better I kinda wish that this existed

This is so cool I am really impressed of the engineers like their weapons and their designs

You just made my day by reminding me of some good animations about ratte

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That tank is so big, big enough to be a great target.

Intro: "And there is no stopping it" Bombers/artillery: Am i a joke to you

This would make a great Wolfenstein enemy/boss vehicle. But this to me makes me scream "Star Wars!"

Sounds like another terror weapon idea that would have siphoned off resources from other viable weapons the same way the V-2 rocket did.

Finnaly, a Infogrpahics Show video about the Ratte.

Just finished watching Breaking Bad Season 1 Episode 7 and I was at minute 26:35, and I get a notification for this video talking about a 1000 tonne German artillery piece, I am absolutely dumbfounded by this coincidence as Walt was talking about the exact same thing, it wasn't planned and I am flabbergasted.

Nice land battleship you have there Germany. Let me just attack somewhere else. What's that? You're driving your land battleship there? Well now we're attacking the place it left behind. Doesn't matter how powerful the tank is. It can only be in one place at once.

11:18 This is a partially true. Two turrents and one hull were completed when Soviet forces captured the training grounds. It was Soviet engineers that made the Maus complete. You also forget about the E100, the evolution of the Maus (only one hull completed, which was captured by American forces.) Also, if the Tiger 1 had been built earlier, it would have done the same as the Ratte, without any of the risks.

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Ask a dozer operator if they think it would work. Ever buried a D-10? It's not fun to get one unstuck and it's not even the largest dozer in production.

This tank sounds like something my child mind would create

The minute they chose the Soviets as an enemy, is the moment the nazis lost the war. Here's a horrifying thought, if they hadn't invaded, and the Soviet Union instead allied with Germany....

The "what if" situation doesn't change the fact that it would destroy roads making refueling not impractical.

I think it would have been a non factor. If it was built before the war started then it would have either accelerated what actually happened or delayed the inevitable.

“Lucas Riggs is always up for a challenge, if you tell him somethings impossible, he will always prove you wrong.”

A gallon a minute is still better than my RAM

This is an appropriate parallel to the coming/current obsolescence of the aircraft carrier. We keep making them bigger so hypersonic missiles can hit them with ease.

This thing is an (almost) real life bane blade...

Call of duty please bring this tank to life, by adding some backstory saying this Tank is in some secret location :D

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Even if the Rat was developed, and even if it didn't destroy roads and sink in the mud and get stuck every half-mile, the Allies would have just developed some sort of massive anti-tank weapon to knock it out. Whether it's some sort of bomb dropped from a plane or a hypersonic projectile, the Rat would be far too big and slow to avoid it.

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This tank contradicted the entire strategy of mobility and speed on which the blitzkrieg doctrine was based. The element of surprise would no longer exist and so would the possibility of quickly outflanking the enemy. That was just Hitler's delusional megalomaniac expression.

Guys, please include also the normal measurements units. Some people watching you are not used to use imperial units

Love how the most replayed part of the video is after the raid shadow legends commercial.

I can see the RAF doing what the Japanese did in Pearl Harbor. Taking a battleship shell and redesigning it to be carried by aircraft. Using altitude to speed up the shell and armor punching power.

I read that the main gun at the p 1000 ratte was supposed to weight 600 tons and that was one of the reasons they could not get this project started

😂 the inspiration for the Death Star and megazord

Bro Tiger1,king Tiger Ratte1,000,Karl Gerat, ShewverGustav , Ladhikerpanzer 1'500 , T34,KV1, kV 2,KV3,KV4 ,maus ,Panther KV 44,KV6, panzer 1,2,3,4,are my favourite and don't forget battleship like KMS Bismarck and IJN Yamato

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I feel like the main issue with the land cruiser would just be the issue that all massive military vehicles suffer from. The issue in question is that when you make somthing that big it becomes the main force of your military. This means that instead of having complicated and well thought out stratagies you only have the stratagy of "through the giant land cruiser at them". This means that the enemy will prioritize the land cruiser over everything else, and while as they mentioned this can be beneficial its most likely not. if you destroy any land cruiser it will take them quite a while to make a replacment and even longer to get it to the front lines meaning that the enemy can make significant progress since there wouldnt be as many other vehicles to opose them. At best its a giant moving very high priority target. thats not even talking about logistics,OH GOD THE LOGISTICS. considering the fact the the germans were using fricken horses to transport stuff they probably woudn't even have a logistical network capable of suporting a land cruiser let alone multiple, I]'m not sure anyone does besides mabe the united states, but they woudn't even be able to use it since it can't be transported over ocean. WHY THE F*CK DID I WRITE ALL OF THIS, THIS IS MORE EFFORT THAN I PUT INTO MOST SCHOOL ASIGNMENTS.

That’s like the M1 Abrams on Steroids

Him:the P. 1000 Ratte Me: it's Ze Maus

The expensive, heavy, huge tank immediately bogs down. Operators discover the bottom of rivers is often sticky mud, unsuitable for supporting heavy vehicles. Tank is stuck in the deepest part of the river.

the second option is way more likely as seen in current wars where such big tanks don't exist for a good reason.

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Just watching this makes me think oh lord imagine if this did get built and the chaos it would’ve caused

Could you PLEASE learn the difference between 'exasperated' and 'exacerbated'! They mean entirely different things and are not interchangeable.

At least Repulsorlift technology was never invented, the Maus and Ratte would have instantly became practical since they could float above the ground.

This felt like it is the inspiration for the Imperial AT-AT in Star Wars... o.o

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This thing would have to have a machine shop built into it. Not to mention, the machinist mates to operate the machines, build/repair parts, and then replace broken and worn out parts. Totally unfeasible and coo coo idea.

I don't think that mega-tank, if it ever came to be, would have been meant for nor used as a front line vehicle. It would have been used as a mobile command center, one that can finish off a task force moving in to destroy the base... and relocate before another strike can be fully planned.