Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: 'mouse') was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. As of 2025, it is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built.

At 188 tonnes, it is the heaviest operational tank ever made by any nation at any time in any war and was made despite the shortages of raw materials, industrial capacity, and manpower at the time in Nazi Germany.

The Panzer VIII Maus (German for “Mouse”) super-tank certainly falls into the latter category. The Maus was a 188-ton behemoth developed by Porsche at the behest of Hitler himself. Impractical does not begin to describe it, and the timing of its introduction was stupefying.

2023年7月10日 · The German Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was the heaviest tank ever created, weighing in at 188 tonnes. Armed with a powerful gun, protected by thicker armour, and powered by an engine created by Porsche, the Panzer VIII was the secret monster tank that never was.

German super heavy battle tank Maus (‘Mouse’). History, development, service, specifications, statistics and pictures.

2019年2月20日 · The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was the largest tank ever built and the result of German designers' wartime obsession with larger and move heavily armoured vehicles. Find out how it was created...

The VK701 Porsche 205 1942 Porsche prototype was the only German super-heavy tank which aproached production.

2013年10月6日 · In late 1944 the Germans completed the first Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever to see the light of day. Just two hulls and one turret were completed before fully enclosed armored fighting …

2019年2月1日 · It was generally believed by her developers (Porsche) that German leader Adolf Hitler would have fielded the Maus in the more effective role of static defense along the "Atlantic Wall", set up to protect his French coast from Allied invasion in the West.

Schwere Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built. In April 1945, when the Red Army units were approaching, the Germans decided to destroy the prototypes because they could not be evacuated – both tanks were blown up, but only one was significantly damaged.