Why are there so few rat tanks?

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Tank No. 8 Rat (German: Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, English: Panzer VIII Maus) was a super-heavy tank designed by the German company Porsche at the end of World War II, with a total combat weight of 188 tons, making it the heaviest tank of its time.

This type of tank was mainly produced by the Krupp company, assembled by Alkett, and only two were produced, and one unarmed was only used for verification. The other was armed with a 128mm main gun and a 75mm coaxial secondary gun, which was enough to destroy any armored vehicle at the time.

The main reasons why only two parts are produced are as follows:

1. Due to the extremely heavy body, the mobility of the Mouse tank is extremely poor, and it is finally aborted due to the lack of actual combat value.

2. At the end of the war, German resources could no longer continue to produce such a large killing weapon at full capacity, and the production of the three-type and the tiger type may be more convenient in comparison.

3. Even though the No. 8 Tank Rat tank uses a 1800 horsepower Daimler Benz DB601ARJ engine for the engine of the production version of the "Mouse" tank, it can reach 35km h of accommodation. However, its high fuel consumption was also intimidating for the German army.

To sum up, this is the reason for the small number of rat holdings in the No. 8 tank.

Because of the decline of Germany's national power at the end of World War II, coupled with the bombing of the Allies every day, and the huge size of some tanks, which were difficult to manufacture, few of them were last in Russia.

In addition to the hard skin and thick blood, the rat type is more pitted, the maneuver is slow, the block is large, and it is easy to be taken care of by the artillery, and the cannon is not E100 fierce, and the whole head is square, if you can't manually jump the egg, it is easy to be pierced by the high and deep cannon, so it takes more skill to play the mouse style, and there are more pit cars on the rat line, so there are fewer people who practice.

There are only two in total, one is a test vehicle, and the other is used for actual combat.

The German Rat tank of World War II was a super-heavy tank designed by the German Porsche book game company at the end of World War II, with a total combat weight of 188 tons, which was the heaviest tank at that time. Only two were produced, one unarmed only for verification, armed with a 128mm main gun and a 75mm coaxial secondary gun, which at that time was enough to destroy any armored vehicle**; It is precisely because of the extremely heavy body that the cross-country ability of the mouse tank is extremely poor, and it is finally aborted due to the lack of actual combat value.

The Rat tank is not in the present day. At that time, the product of Germany's running out of ammunition and food, a big iron lump, had no actual combat value. It seems that the best targets for air strikes are only two units put into service. Mobility can't even match the slowness of the Tiger King. Totally ornamental.

I guess so. At present, the heaviest tank in the world is no more than 60 tons, with a maximum caliber of 125 mm and an off-road speed of 55 kilometers per hour. However, during World War II, the "Mouse" tank built by fascist Germany turned out to be three times the heaviest tank in the world today, reaching 188 tons, making it the heaviest tank in the history of the world's tank.

No, the total weight of the giant rat tank is 1500 tons, and the rat type is only 188 tons.

From mid-January to early October 1944, the Rat tanks were tested at the Kummersdorf armoured vehicle test site, 25 km south of Berlin, and at the Porsche test site in Bblingen. However, Allied aerial bombardment slowed down all production and testing, including the testing of the prototype of the No. 8 tank.

At the beginning of 1945, the Soviet army entered Germany with a force of 2.5 million troops on three fronts. In the spring of 1945, Soviet troops captured the test ground of the Rat tank in Berlin, but both Rat tanks were self-destructed by the Germans to varying degrees. The Soviets then brought the remnants of two Mouse tanks back to the Soviet Union and arrived in Kubinka in 1946, where they were used for development and research.

In 1978, it was moved to the Kubinka Tank Museum for exhibition, and the current Mouse tank on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum is a reconstruction of the assembly of two No. 8 tanks by the Soviet Army.

At about 188 tons, the Rat tank is the heaviest heavy tank in the world, and there are two in the world, one has been scrapped and one is in a Russian museum.