I like how they wanted to name it mammoth, but, as to make the name more fitting for the biggest tank, named it mouse.

@simonkevnorris

5 жыл бұрын

Maus.... cough cough....Nice video again anyway!

@ibreathenapalm1112

5 жыл бұрын

Same goes for "Goliath" which, ironically, was a small RC tank guided bomb.

@floatsterfn

5 жыл бұрын

All for the sake of misleading Allied spies, same as with the Nebelwerfer

@alphalobster8021

5 жыл бұрын

More of a British trait I would say. Where the Americans name an aircraft the Black Widow, we would call it a Fairy.

@daffaarsya8165

5 жыл бұрын

German humor at its finest

Hitler whilst viewing the maginot line: i want this but put it on tracks so it cant be outflanked. Hence the Maus

@raptorjesus3894

5 жыл бұрын

"Can't be out-flanked" and "Maus" do not go well together...

@insertnamehere6096

5 жыл бұрын

@@raptorjesus3894 r/woooosh

@pillsburrydough9931

5 жыл бұрын

@@insertnamehere6096 not really

@pizzapanda8527

5 жыл бұрын

GroßDeutsches Reich r/ihavereddit

@kstreet7438

5 жыл бұрын

@@insertnamehere6096 r/woosh

Maus:(exist) Bridge: Ah shit here we go again

if the big tank didn’t work Then it clearly wasn’t big enough

Maus in da Haus

Those Russians who reassembled this tank from two wrecks must have had loads of fun :)

ah yes, everybody loves me

@Just-me-Laura

5 жыл бұрын

😂

The Jagdtiger actually saw combat in the last desperate defences, as Otto Carius written in his book, where he commanded the Jagdtigers crewed by inexperienced young soldiers.

When you realize that King Tiger's frontal armor was never penetrated by allied anti tank weapons and Maus' rear armor is stronger than King Tiger's frontal armor. Maus was made not to care about being outflanked.

Finally a topic I know something about - if you ever visit Germany and are interested in the development: the Kummersdorf test site is almost frozen in time and can be visited with guides like me ;) Great video as always Mark :)

@laurenz2426

5 жыл бұрын

Will visit it when i have my license.

@apocalypticsurvivor1881

5 жыл бұрын

was wird da erzählt und/oder gezeigt

@FrankDad

5 жыл бұрын

Oh boy... (and this is tooooootallly not a plug), how could a person contact you to take a tour???

@irondarknessdarkness8900

5 жыл бұрын

i have a maus in Wot , my second favorite next to my KV-2 152. couple of problems with the maus both solvable , roadways and bridges for it to use, and track improvements...as far as shipping it ever hear of this? www.railwayage.com/mechanical/freight-cars/kasgro-builds-worlds-largest-railroad-car/ and lastly weapons improvements.

@antonypiniepedus1066

5 жыл бұрын

I'd rather visit alone, by myself and not with someone by my side who thinks he has to explain what I am seeing.

Weight of the two t28 super heavy tanks combined. Even though t28 was considered as a monster.

I usually don't (well, actually never) write any comments, but as far as we know, the Maus - and his bigger "brother", the Ratte (rat) were never meant to be tanks... As the germans prepared for the allied invasion in Normandy, they knew that the positions of the coastal guns would be well known by the enemy, and the overwhelming allied naval and air soperiority would most probably knock out ANY fix positioned coastal guns, no mater how well they are fortified. As they mostly did... That called for the concept of mobile coastal defensive fortresses. Due to the concept they wait in their bunkers till the end of the allied air raids, and as "the cat is away" they move out and open fire to the landing crafts and the ships near the coast. That explains the name... The 128mm gun is capable to sink even a destroyer, and the coax 75mm gun made sense against the smaller boats and the troops on the beach. The shorter barell of the 75mm shows: it was never ment to be used against tanks. The Ratte was even planned to carry the gun turrets of german warhips. And had AA guns. It was even called a "Landkreuzer" (land cruiser). Never a "Panzer". The invasion in the summer made both projects obsolete, and the germans stopped them at once. This version of history makes more sense, well, at least for me...

@maddogmcfly5504

5 жыл бұрын

really good points. when i look at the later german tanks, in the context of them running out of fuel and soldiers, these larger vehicles seem to make some sense in a more defensive role as a means of conserving fuel and possibly being a force multiplier, able to take out many allied tanks per loss of their own. if you look at it as using the same amount of resources to make as 8 t34s, the maus crew is only that of say 2 t34s and its fuel consumption may be only as much as say 3 t34s, but in theory it might be able to achieve a say 20 or 30 to 1 kill ratio on t34s, it might make sense. of course the problem in the field is as said elsewhere, allied airpower for a start, but also the need for appropriate support for them in the field by infantry etc so as to prevent them being swarmed and molotovs or satchel charges being used on them

@camo7886

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think that makes any more sense than anything else about this tank. Something as big as this would have lasted 5 minutes in Normandy before being destroyed by allied air power.

@camo7886

5 жыл бұрын

@@Draious seriously chaps, this is all unlikely it was strategically considered in this depth. Hitler liked the idea of big tanks, so Germany made big tanks.

@alexbush2183

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have any sources for this as I think it's actually a very clever idea and would like to look more into it

@Mechmaster0

5 жыл бұрын

But the design was approved in June 1942, were the Germans really preparing for an allied invasion of France that early in the war?

That's not a mouse. That's a Maus!

At 1:12 and several other shots, you will notice the German tank has the Soviet hammer and sickle emblem. This was meant to fool any allied spies who infiltrated the testing grounds into believing the Maus wasn't German but a captured Soviet weapon.

I like how the russians had to use German vehicles to move a German tank. hahaha

There was an even bigger tank on the drawing board - the "Ratte". at 1000 tonnes and utilizing a battleship turret with two barrels, 2 U-Boat engines as planned propulsion, it would have been a very damaging piece of military hardware. Damaging to roads, bridges, and practically anything else in it's way had it been built.

I Would like too see the allied troops face when they saw the maus for the first time.

Much the same size as a family suv, then? 12 yards long and two lanes wide - Canyonaro!

@Bill23799

5 жыл бұрын

Hahah I always wanted to own a Canyonero. Who wouldn't want a car the smelled like a steak and seats 35 ? CANYONERO!!!!!!!

@riojasvictor

5 жыл бұрын

60 tons of American pride.

@riojasvictor

5 жыл бұрын

It's a squirrel smashing, deer smacking driving machine. CANYANEROOOOWHOA! CANYANERO

For anyone wondering what the hammer and sickle symbol on the side of the tank Yes, it was real. No, it was made by the germans Why, to confuse allied spies confusing the maus as a captured russian tank

"mein fhurer, ve have build ze biggest tank in se vurld! What shall we call it?" Hitler: "mouse" "but mein fhure-" Hitler: M O U S E !

This wasnt a tank. It was a moving fortress, something like an Atlantikwall bunker on tracks.

The turret weighed the same as a full Tiger 1. Fucking hell.

One of the best history channels with short videos, I wish he would make a longer doco, I really love his way of explaining and his voice suits really suits.

RIP Maus 1.91

Oh yes-the maus!

@JeanLucCaptain

5 жыл бұрын

can't wait to see the Tog!

@USS_Grey_Ghost

5 жыл бұрын

Maus means mouse in German

@pbonney

5 жыл бұрын

Of maus and men.

@hacked6613

5 жыл бұрын

USS Gray Ghost no shit sherlock

@nihilistcentraluk442

5 жыл бұрын

The brexiteers tank.

As described, totally impractical. In addition to it's weight, it would have been vulnerable to Allied aircraft. I don't know of a 500 pound bomb would have destroyed it, but I reasonably believe the crew would have been killed from the concussion of a direct or very close hit.

@locasenior8229

5 жыл бұрын

Yes thats the only problem with german heavy tanks tiger 2 had that problem the soviet t34 just wouldnt do any damage to tiger 2 front armor and shells would just bounce off. Great for germany but bad for people in them reportedly crew of the tanks would have been missing teeth some suffered severe concusion or even worse internal bleeding. With maus if 500 pound bomb hit it would probably destroy it but if it had missed crew inside would have been like spagheti and not to mention germany didnt have enough people to operate tanks at the end of the war

Everyone hates the maus for being “too big, slow and impractical”. I mean it’s a tank lol.... going outside the boundaries of normality! I think it’s a good try lol

I'm just amazed they could actually move under their own power.

Great channel. When this channel goes big (and it will) please keep your content similar to this. This is like great short history documentaries but 3X better than what any of the major cable networks can put out. Longer videos would be happily accepted but keep the style the same. Again, great work!

Just to show how nutty this project really was, the thickest part of the turret armor, the turret face, on the US "Baltimore" class heavy cruisers was 8" (203mm) and the thickest part of the belt armour was 6" (152mm). The Germans were essentially constructing a vehicle with as much (or more) armor as a heavy cruiser while trying to use it on land. Why this was ever considered workable by Porsche, otherwise a brilliant designer. is still a mystery.

Ten big thumbs up for your work, Mark!

Now THAT is what I call a tank ! No bloody use to anyone, but impressive, damned impressive ! 😯

Video on the man who killed a KI 44 fighter with a M1911?

@zamn__

5 жыл бұрын

"Destroyed"

@homiespaghetti1522

5 жыл бұрын

@@zamn__ technically "killed" Because he killed the pilot

@simboulisxbox7939

5 жыл бұрын

Leevi Ikonen the man killed the pilot of the ki 44

@WarReport.

5 жыл бұрын

There is a documentary of German soldiers home videos and in it they show a soviet fighter and dead pilot shoy down by a single rifleman and his Kar 98

@sudaev

5 жыл бұрын

I've read up on that incident, and am certain that it didn't happen.

Thank you for this. Silly but amazing tank. I LOVE that they called it 'Mouse'.

Awesome video as always. I’m so happy that one of these beautiful machines still exists, hope to get the chance to see it in person some day.

Thank you Mark for another great video.

On the 1st of May 1943 a wooden mockup was shown to Hitler. He liked it. LOL

@avaolivia6839

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

Pls save MAUS in war thunder😢

1.00 - ‘One step beyond that seemed an act of madness’. Nutty Boi!

Mark you always seem to nail down the facts and the historical information to the point your research is phenomenal and I love your videos keep up the good work awesome job

Great video about the Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus! Thank you!

I love your videos! Please keep making em

You forgot to mention that the tank was air tight and sealed so instead of crossing bridges (which was impossible due to its weight) it sank and basically became a submarine with tracks with a hose sticking out the front engine that would (in theory) be placed on the surface for oxygen and engine combustion. Also, the red hammer and sickle was used to confuse the Soviets thinking it was a Soviet designed tank.

@fernandomarques5166

5 жыл бұрын

Correction: the hammer and sickle was to confuse the western allies into thinking it was a captured soviet vehicle.

@MihaelTurina

5 жыл бұрын

And it was actually meant to be powered by another Maus through a cable when going underwater.

@EnDSchultz1

5 жыл бұрын

Seems a terrible idea if true. 180 tonnes trying to cross a muddy, silty riverbed? It would get mired and end up a submerged coffin for the crew.

Now, a video on the T28/T95 is needed :)

@bestamerica

5 жыл бұрын

Liam Roggenkamp Now, a video on the T28/T95 is needed :) ' hi L R... youtube video already have american super duty tank T-28

@totallyaploy1824

5 жыл бұрын

two more thicc bois

it's like an imperial titan incredibly expensive and impractical though in warhammer everything is crazy enough

I was always under the impression that the Maus that received a working turret broke down on the way to defending Berlin.

I hope you cover the E Series of tanks someday, or at the least the E-100, given it (would have) shared the Maus’ turret, and an upgraded Maus ‘II’ turret.

I'm glad to see that even during the end of the war they still had a sense of humor.

Love the into music

@duckman5642

5 жыл бұрын

Me 2

@veebuk8522

5 жыл бұрын

@TakeoutLime47 i have no idea

The coaxial 75mm gun looks like a machine gun when compared with the 128mm main gun!

I hadn't realized that there was one still in existence. Something that I'd like to see first hand. More interestingly, I'd like to see the inside layout and power plant.

Omg ive seen this tanl and it was suchh an experience a picture just can NOT prepare you to how big it is like SERIOUSLY

I've read alot about the maus but nothing can beat your narrating ability beside indy neidell

Please cover the M24 Chaffee! I'd love to hear what you talk about the speedy little thing

This is the best video on the Mause that I have seen. Great job!

Could you please make a video regarding Imperial Japan's indigenous heavy tank designs which were supposed to be an answer to the M4 Sherman tank had Operation Downfall been implemented? Thanks.

Very very informative

Another great video.

Another great video

Incredible manufacturing all the parts. Then the assembly.

It must have been extremely challenging to move such a huge, heavy vehicle.

I hope a video on the Ratte is coming soon as well!

“... that it appeared an act of madness.” ... Doesn’t that sum up much of WWII in a statement?

Thank you for saying the size in inches also 👍

Notification gang. Keep up this awesome content, interesting af

no one ever talks about the Panzerkampfwagen E-100, it's lighter than the Maus by 38 tonnes, but carries the same armaments, superior curved and angled armour, a lower profile and double the theoretical top speed. The original design had an even larger caliber gun than the Maus.

Russian troop: Oh my dang. He's a THICC boi he's THICC boi. Russian troop2: what are you loo- oh my

lol.. "despite rumors on the internet"

Like your content, Mark.

Really interested in the interior layout and crew areas. Any way you could "talk" your way into obtaining interior access?

Im glad there is one left to look at. Normaly short sighted people get rid of stuff and history only has plans and pictures to study!

german maus tank: who wants some fun! GDI mammoth tank :HEY!! that's my line

very cool. Thanks!

Nice Ty Mark, very cool

Fun Fact: The Kubinka Tank Museum was built around the Maus. Because, well, the Soviets couldn't move it anywhere... it was just too big.

Mark,today i was thinking about writing a comment that you should make a vid on the Maus...and you did it,but the catch is that i didn't write the comment...hmm,i think this is the second time you have done a vid on what i wanted the exact day even without me commenting it...interesting,mystery maybe ? Keep it up,Mark !

@lingerslongest

5 жыл бұрын

so we have to think of something so obscure that even Mark didn't think of covering it in a video … What about Shingle Street ?

I’d like to see the Mous rebuilt with the shell that remains just to see what it would look like

For all you guys who are willing to take a look at the only mouse remaining, in the Kubinka tank museum: you can enter the steal beast through a hole at the bottom of the front of the tank. The view of the guards is blocked by an immense vehicle that stands next to the mouse :p

It was a "breakthrough tank", which is a description of any attempt to cross a bridge.

The first challenging terrain feature would have stopped it. Or close air support. Or artillery. Or mechanical failure. Or logistics train issues.

Vulnerable to air attack I imagine- what a huge target

@uio890138

5 жыл бұрын

It had room for a catapult-launched fighter plane on top.

Thank you Mark, that was very interesting.

Also can you do a video on the ball tank?

I'd like to see it conquer the 11'8" bridge...

Tanks a lot.

I like how you say tiger 2 before king tiger and that almost no "errors" occur in your videos. I also like reading the comments on your channel as peoples alternate takes on reality is most amusing. Its also fun that the Kubinka tank museeum was built around the actual tank.

Great video Mark. Do you know what happened to several spare hulls, and turrets we see in those pictures? Seems like it would have come in handy for any restoration of the tank. Did any factory machines used in making the Maus survive to today?

@messerschmittbolkow5606

5 жыл бұрын

I am sure some of the drilling machines etc. suvived in russia or so. Its custom tank design man, there are no such templates and stuff like there is for an airplane.

@dannyv2335

5 жыл бұрын

There were only 2. If I remember correctly, prototype hull #2 was fitted with prototype turret #1 and after the hull was damaged beyond repair, Prototype #1 hull was mated to prototype #1 turret.

@Loup-mx7yt

5 жыл бұрын

TheBigExclusive the factory was bombed, so it is a possibility that the hulls were destroyed with it. For the factory, it has probably been rebuilt after the war.

@ChrisZukowski88

5 жыл бұрын

Yes they were retrofit as molds for dildos aimed at the social justice market.

@TheBigExclusive

5 жыл бұрын

@@messerschmittbolkow5606 ​ @Danny V - at 2:19 there are three spare hulls sitting on the ground.

Kubinka is an amazing museum to visit for military history buffs. Worth a trip to Moscow.

LOL. I'm glad to see the video is back. I was watching the first one when it disappeared halfway through. The Maus was a good example of German desperation as the war drew to a close, looking for the superweapon, from the V1 and V2 to the Maus, hoping one thing could break the back of the allies. It showed a complete misapprehension of the strength of the enemy they were fighting.

@alexsv1938

5 жыл бұрын

The Maus was not seen as that, during 1943 Germany was still somewhat on offense and they needed a mobile bunker to break the soviet lines which the Maus was made to do. But, as the situation was getting worse and they started to be on offense, all super heavy tanks were either cancelled or were on low priority (ex E-100). The Maus entered in a small production run before the cancellation with 3 hulls and turrets built but the factory was bombed and no further work continued.

@reginaldmcnab3265

5 жыл бұрын

Sar Jim it shows how so many countries had to join together to defeat one country! Germany, and it also show that not one of any of those countries could have defeated Germany on their own! Like General Patton said “we won the war by the skin of our teeth” Russia alone couldn’t defeat Germany, the British alone couldn’t defeat Germany nor could the US! Luckily Germany had the A-bomb too late in the war to turn the tide! The allies won the war by the narrowest Of margin in terms of time.

@BrettonFerguson

5 жыл бұрын

It's a prototype for testing. Look up some of the crap the US built. But I'm sure you would have done a better job if you were in charge. Take a bankrupt country the size of Texas, with no tanks, airplanes, or navy, only 100k foot soldiers, and within 6 years fight the entire planet. I'm sure you would have done a spectacular job.

@danbrown5736

5 жыл бұрын

@@BrettonFerguson france, half the Italians in 1943, low countries is not that hard

@mxplk

5 жыл бұрын

@@reginaldmcnab3265 Wow, you are insane, Reggie. Time for you to get back to the Institute for your electroshock therapy. 🤣

Any data on what guns were fired at it ? Cause there are holes shown on the one in Kubinka but from what guns ?

Too heavy to cross most bridges. The design used electromotor engines to the sprockets, powered by the engine. It was such that it could be connected, by wire, to another Maus that would suppy the motors with power while it crossed a river...like going along the bottom of it. Then, the crossed tank would supply power to the other Maus as it crossed.

4:35 - those are scratches from shells, right ? Is there any story what ammo Soviets used for tests ?

75mm coax gun? lol its like making the Panther as the top gunner

Only useful thing would be a turret-bunker-version of it. Maus-turret in fixed positions on key positions, so you FORCE the enemy to use much arty and air attacks to destroy it.

America:We have the strongest Tanks Germany:Are sure about that?

Could you imagine how things might have played out for Germany had they stuck with simple, reliable designs? Just design a Pz IV size tank but with sloped armor and a high-velocity 7.5cm gun and then build them by the thousands and thousands. yeah I know they did almost that exact thing with the Pz IV, that's why I'm using that as an example. While the allies made do with stopgaps like putting a new turret with a bigger gun on an existing chassis until they could design a better tank, Germany just couldn't be content to have a tank that was simply 'good enough.' Granted I don't think that this alone could have changed the outcome of the war (nor would any sane person want the outcome to be changed) but it's an interesting what-if.

Another quality video Lord Felton,may I suggest the Cornfield Bomber next?

I have encountered this tank so many times in War Thunder.

@Jermster_91

5 жыл бұрын

@Craig Wooldridge I get WW2 era vehicles fighting each other. It's a Win - Win.

@jellyfrosh9102

5 жыл бұрын

@@SonOfFudge It's really fun to play but it gets it's ass kicked by anything post war or the many bullshit IS tanks like the 6 and 7.

@AllMightyKingBowser

5 жыл бұрын

@gendalfff dude you are comparing ww2 era tanks with post ww2 era tank designs, there is no point of comparison.

@avaolivia6839

5 жыл бұрын

This tank easly to kill with APDSFS ammo

Do you think you could do a video on the A7V?

There was an e-100 hull but it got scraped if I remember correctly