Nazi Super tanks

 

In 1942nd Krupa proposed this project, after the Soviet heavy tank of investigation. It was designed as a huge tank with tower from warship and the usual land-based weapons practically 23 cm - 0.7 foot thick armor. In the main tower there are two 280 mm guns, which were instaled only  on a war ships and another 11 different guns, in other words a lot of weapons in one place. Also, "tank" was designed garage for two bikes, which use for spying. All this was to be subsumed in a 35 meters long and 11 meters high body (about fourth - fifth floor houses the height), weighted impressive 1,000 tons -  2 204 620 pounds.

In fact, this device would be a ship, more than tank, because to build it, it would need methods used by the shipyards. The engines for that monster was of vessels - 2 firm MAN engines, used by submarines with a total capacity of 17,000 hp (2x8500zs) or eight Daimler-Benz engines with a total capacity of 16,000 hp (8x2000zs). To carry this weight was down 6 rows of tracks, with 7 meters - 21 foot in width. It is understood that there was no bridge or road which will not break under this monster.

How quickly the project started so quickly it ended up in the 1943rd. The Industry Minister A. Speer said that this project is unreasonable spending of resources, namely, the material to be consumed in one such project, was able to build 50 more realistic tanks. The only thing that was done in this project, was built the tower and selected engines.

Landkreuzer P 1500 It would have been 42 meters long, 2,500 tons - 5 511 550 pounds heavy, 25 cm 0.8 foot thick iron-clad "ship". Forward this pile of metal push 4 (!) MAN (34 000 hp) (also used in submarines) engines to reach 15 km / h high speed. The main arsenal of weapons had to be 800 mm Dora / Schwerer Gustav. K. cannon and two machine guns 150 mm.

Image of size comparison. All the pictures are drawings and reconstructions, based on technical specifications and drawings from nazi documents, these powerful projects never were realized.