The Ratte Supertank’s Specs. Weighing an estimated 1,000 tons—over ten times the weight of the already-gargantuan Tiger II ...

The Ratte was designed to be the biggest tank ever built, a 1000-ton beast that could dominate the battlefield. But why was this colossal war machine never completed, ...

And the tank known as P.1000 during development, would have been no exception. Thankfully, the Landkreuzer Ratte (as it has since come to be known) was never built.

The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte Was the Most Ambitious Tank Ever Devised – During the Second World War, the German military thinkers certainly thought big when it came to tanks and produced some ...

Sadly, a Ratte prototype never saw production, but that’s probably a good thing in the end: If any tank’s going to take responsibility for epic trouser-soilings throughout the history of war ...

Although four of the tanks described in the video—M1 Abrams, Char 2c, K-Wagen, and the Panzer VIII Maus—were eventually built, other designs like the Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte were just too ...

Why Hitler Wanted the Ratte. In 1942, as Germany’s fortunes in the Second World War were reversing, the German Wehrmacht met stiff resistance on the Eastern Front against the massive Soviet Union.