How Bad Was The Maus?
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- There are few vehicles as popular as the Maus super heavy tank. Envisioned to be impenetrable while taking out the most heavily armored allied tanks, it's surprising that the Maus was ever functional. There are some people that believe the Maus could have helped turn the tide of World War II, but I disagree. Super heavies take a lot of resources to design and field while having limited utility, and the Maus was certainly no exception. We'll be taking a look at its history to see why it was made it in the first place, how the design changed, and why it ultimately failed.
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Panzer Tracts No.6-3: Schwere-Panzerkampfwagen Maus and E-100 by Thomas L. Jentz and Hilary Louis Doyle
Maus And Other German Armored Projects by Michael Sawondy and Kai Bracher
Tiger I and Tiger II by Anthony Tucker-Jones
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Imagine you're a tank designer, and how happy you get when you are being told "you must not cut the weight on this thing under any circumstances" 😂
the development history of the maus along with its peculiar design compared to the tanks that Germany fielded at that point makes it really intresting
"Maus rolls into battlefield"
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I think the grand thing a lot of people forget about the Maus is that it didn't really fit all the requirements needed of a tank versatile to change a battlefield:
Well, tanks are all about balance. If you make a tank super heavy and near invisible to armor penetration, it will have some major downsides that limit its use to specific scenarios.
Not to mention by that point the allied airforces had effectively green air so a super slow huge tank would be a free kill for any plane that could carry a bomb bigger than 50KG
ironically, with how costly the Maus was to build, it was probably cheaper to build multiple AT bunkers with the gun
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While the electric transmission was referenced as having been used for tanks and busses, I think it's notable that the real sucess of such systems were on trains, which revolutionized that industry, difference being of course that they have all the space in the world to give adequate cooling and power generation, in addition to the obvious differences in traction type and load demand.
The reason I like the Maus is it seems so crazy and the fact the German's considered going even further with the Ratte. Same basic idea with the German proposed battleship plan that had ships double the weight of the Iowa class battleship.
I remember watching a video about the maus and Why it would fail, one of the arguments was that, by the time the maus would've come out, it wouldn't have been able to do much because allied CAS were pretty much free to bomb it to hell since the luftwaffe was basically gone.
I was waiting this video. Thanks Spookston!
In my opinion, the peak of heavy tank design was the IS-7, what a beast of engineering
It's like if a 12 year old designed a tank tbh
The Maus would have been an awful heavy tank, but it was not designed as a heavy tank. It was designed as a "tracked bunker", and in that role it could have performed adequately. Attach 3-5 of these to an engineering section, roll them into prepared positions, and use them as bunkers. This would have allowed defensive positions to be more mobile while still giving better protection and firepower than could be provided by other vehicles.
The problem with the Maus is its basic design. It would be completely ineffective and unusable in combat. It was extremely vulnerable to aircraft and would have been just a slow-moving artillery target. It honestly kinda seems like something someone with no real idea on how warfare works would design a tank, "Just put an absurd amount of armor and a really big gun on it, then it will kill everything." The Maus would have basically no strategic mobility and likely by the time it got to the front, the battle would be over.
I literally just today finished researching the Maus. Perfect timing!
In practice the Maus would be a half-hour distraction at best, and free food for whatever aircraft was carrying bombs got to it first at worst
The mouse is such a hillariously stupid tank and I love it simply because of that