Your favourite tanks

[Sheogorath]

The Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster because holy ****, that ****** will **** you like **** ************* *******. ****.

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I believe that's what the Russians would've call 'IL-2 bait'

[Samurai Waki]

I mean... apart from the crazy amount of resources something like that would gobble up (The Kriegsmarine could've actually built a few more Mega Battleships) There is no way something like that could've been practical, between the Fuel they didn't have, and the Insane Engine that would've pushed the thing at a whopping 15km per hour, the Germans (And rightfully so) could build ten King Tigers, or 30 Panthers. And besides that, Sheogorath is pretty much right, everyone wants to get the big Target.

[Azathoth]

Practicality is not a factor when it comes to super tanks.

[al Roumi]

I believe that's what the Russians would've call 'IL-2 bait'

Never mind IL-2s, you could comfortably carpet bomb the bugger.

It might even have provided another use for those high altitude bunker busting bombs (Tallboys) that the RAF used to knock out the Tirpitz.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Never mind IL-2s, you could comfortably carpet bomb the bugger.

It might even have provided another use for those high altitude bunker busting bombs (Tallboys) that the RAF used to knock out the Tirpitz.

Sucker's big enough where you could carpet bomb without the edges of the bomb quadrant going past the AFV!

[Crazed Rabbit]

I believe that's what the Russians would've call 'IL-2 bait'

Bah! You could've probably mounted several anti-air turrets on the thing.

CR

[Sheogorath]

Never mind IL-2s, you could comfortably carpet bomb the bugger.

It might even have provided another use for those high altitude bunker busting bombs (Tallboys) that the RAF used to knock out the Tirpitz.

You wouldn't even need bombers. You could just hit it with artillery. Even WWII era artillery wouldn't have trouble hitting something like that. You could probably hit it with ROCKETS.

Bah! You could've probably mounted several anti-air turrets on the thing.

CR

But, all things considered, you'd expend a lot less resources in planes taking it out than the resources required to build it in the first place.

I mean, the time and effort that would go into something like that would produce, like, a five hundred T-34's.

[Husar]

It would also have really thick armour though so the question remains whether normal shells would be able to penetrate it at all. I'd think if it had, say 1m of steel armour, a 500 pound bomb's explosive blast might just spread along the surface instead of really denting the armour. I'm not an explosives expert though.

[al Roumi]

It would also have really thick armour though so the question remains whether normal shells would be able to penetrate it at all. I'd think if it had, say 1m of steel armour, a 500 pound bomb's explosive blast might just spread along the surface instead of really denting the armour. I'm not an explosives expert though.

Yep, the designs certainly talk about thick armour (I don't think the Porsch designers were that silly) -and AA guns too.

This is what would have taken it out though: Tallboy bombs.

As I mentioned above, they were used to finish off the Tirpitz and destroy U-boat pens, as well as other undergroung/bunker targets.

Tanks this big are just a crazy idea - must have been what inspired the Mammoth tanks in C&C Red Alert

[AggonyDuck]

The problem with the P.1500 Monster is the fact that while the hull can be armoured, the gun can't really be that well armoured. So even if you might not be able to destroy the vehicle itself, the main armament is big enough to be a relatively easy and vulnerable target.

[Vladimir]

Where would you use it? What kind of bridge would support it? What kind of ship could transport it? It looks more like a proof-of-concept design than anything anyone would actually build.