Weighing 188 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank ever built. Designed to crush anything in its path, it became an ...

The Maus's poor crew found themselves turned into fine German sausage meat when a ten-second burst converted what was once the scariest super-heavy battle tank into a beautiful make-shift barbecue.

Key point: It was an act of desperation—and an engineering marvel. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after ...

Although it ended up being terribly impractical, the massive Panzer VIII Maus tank used in World War ... a relatively modest package for a four-crew tank, at 26.9 tons, 18.4 feet long, and 8. ...

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 weighed 180 metric tons.