Group for afterburner on (1)
(Thinks - afterburner at 188 tons ....)
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Panzerkampfwagen VIII "Maus" (German Maus - "Mouse", Sd.Kfz 205, another name - Porsche Typ 205) is an extra-heavy tank designed in the Third Reich from 1942 to 1945 under the leadership of Ferdinand Porsche. It is the largest tank by weight of all ever embodied in metal (188.9 tons). Only two copies of the car were built. In the hostilities did not participate. At the moment, only one Maus tank, assembled from parts of both specimens, has been preserved in the world at the Armored Museum in Kubinka. However, there are other information. The book "The Designer of Combat Vehicles," Lenizdat 1988, states: "At that time it turned out that the Mouse was manufactured in triplicate, but there were no certificates of its combat use of the evidence, but two cars nevertheless led to the battle positions: one of them turned out to be In the town of Zossen in front of the entrance to the German General Staff building, and the second one was guarding the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, and the third, as already mentioned, went to us in a shattered form at the Kummersdorf training ground. "