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 ...

And it was certainly fearsome in its own right. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after Kursk ...

Weighing 188 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank ever built. Designed to crush anything in its path, it became an engineering marvel—and a battlefield ghost.