Comment on TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship.

DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Accordingly, some historians believe the P.1000 Ratte diagram to be either a hoax, or alternatively a speculative engineer’s sketch made for personal amusement.

I’d be inclined to believe this. There’s no way the Ratte was ever a serious concept that they believed they could actually build.

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