The Ratte Supertank’s Specs. Weighing an estimated 1,000 tons—over ten times the weight of the already-gargantuan Tiger II tank—it was envisioned as a 155-foot-long and 46-foot-wide leviathan.

The Ratte was designed to be the biggest tank ever built, a 1000-ton beast that could dominate the battlefield. But why was this colossal war machine never completed, ...

Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte – A True Landship. By some accounts, the Landkreuzer – which was the brainchild of Krupp director Edward Grotte – was among the designs that were simply too ...

The P.1000 was one big rat! Dimensions for the Landkreuzer were jaw-dropping: 115 feet long, 46 feet wide, and 36 feet high. It would have weighed 1,000 tons, with as much as 300 tons worth of 10 ...

One of those systems, the P-1000 Ratte, was an insane Nazi attempt to dominate the European battlefield with what amounted to a battleship on land. Why Hitler Wanted the Ratte.