The M3's high silhouette made it an easy target ... Weighing nearly 200 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank ever built. Its massive size and weight made it extremely slow and difficult to ...

The M3's high silhouette made it an easy target ... Weighing nearly 200 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank ever built. Its massive size and weight made it extremely slow and difficult to ...

Key point: It was an act of desperation—and an engineering marvel. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after ...

The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was one such weapon. It was impractical and also huge — so huge it holds the record for the heaviest fully-enclosed tank ever built. The Maus weighed 180 metric tons.