The Landkreuzer P. 1000 "Ratte" (English: Land Cruiser P. 1000 "Rat") was a design for a 1000-ton tank to be used by Germany during World War II which may have been proposed by Krupp director Edward Grote in June 1942, who had already named it "Landkreuzer" ("Land cruiser").

2017年12月6日 · In the midst of World War II, Hitler pushed for the creation of one of the most powerful, and least practical, weapons of all time: the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte. The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte would have been the largest, heaviest tank ever created. Weighing 1,000 tons, five times the weight of the heaviest tank ever built, and measuring 115 ...

The Tiger II was perhaps the most sophisticated and powerful tank to see combat in World War II. Because of the difficulty of constructing such a complex machine and wartime shortages of raw materials, only 492 were completed by the end of the war.

2018年1月24日 · He was known for his megalomaniac ambitions, but the most telling example of his unrestrained hubris was endorsing the Landkreuzer P.1000, which he nicknamed The Rat (Ratte). It was supposed to be more than five times heavier than its predecessor, Panzer VIII Maus, a super tank, built in late 1944.

The Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte was a projected super-heavy tank, also referred to as a "land battleship", designed in Germany during World War II. The Ratte was designed to be propelled by either eight 20-cylinder Daimler-Benz MB501 marine diesel engines, or two 24-cylinder MANV12Z32/44 marine...

2023年12月3日 · 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...

2015年3月19日 · He was known for his megalomaniac ambitions, but the most telling example of his unrestrained hubris was endorsing the Landkreuzer P.1000, which he nicknamed The Rat (Ratte). It was supposed to be more than five times heavier than its predecessor, Panzer VIII Maus, a super tank, built in late 1944.

2022年6月10日 · Hitler gave this mammoth undertaking his direct blessing as the program set about to create the most powerful tank ever devised for the modern battlefield. It was an ambitious undertaking to say the least and - should it have been completed - would also have become the largest tank ever produced without doubt.

2024年5月21日 · The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte (“Rat”) was a WWII-era design for a Nazi German super-heavy tank with a weight of 1000 tonnes, or 1,000,000 kg. By comparison, an Abrams tank weighs 61.4 tonnes and costs $4.35 million US Dollars (USD) to build.

2022年3月14日 · Online, that vehicle has become known as the ‘Ratte’ (Eng: Rat), as some kind of allusion to its Maus-sized forebear, but the vehicle was less rat-sized and more landship-sized and was known under the less amusing name of ‘P.1000’.