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Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus - the largest mass tank ever embodied in metal. In all there were two cars of this model. Have survived only one instance of which was captured by Soviet troops and is now in the Russian military-historical museum of armored vehicles in Kubinka.

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As part of the campaign "Remember all» Wargaming together with armored museum in Kubinka intends to restore the legendary tank Maus. Unfortunately, most of the nodes of the tank did not survive, so they will recover the piece in factories around the world in close cooperation with experienced restorers of military equipment. Completely rebuilt Maus will be in armored museum in Kubinka, and everyone can see this unique sample of military equipment with their own eyes.



Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus is famous not only for its military exploits as outstanding performance. Some of its parameters have no analogues in the world, it is valuable as a monument to engineering the mid XX century. Below - 10 facts about the unique tank.



Maus - the heaviest tank ever built. It weighs 188 tons, which is more than three together "Tigers" .Daleko every bridge that time could endure such a giant. Therefore, the designers made it possible to overcome water obstacles to a depth of 10 m dnu.Glavnoe 128-mm gun "Mouse" could pierce any enemy tank from a distance of up to 2500 meters. Similar results could not boast of a single tank anti-Hitler coalition.



Voracity "mouse" is also impressive: on field trials in off-road fuel consumption of 350 liters per 10 km.Razrabotka and tank testing began in 1941 and were conducted in the strictest secrecy. Prior to testing the Germans inflicted on the prototype markings, vaguely similar to the Soviet. This was done to give the tank of one of the Soviet trophies, which were tested on poligone.Konkurentom tank Maus was a similar project under the symbol Krupp Tiger-Maus, who lost the contest and was closed. However, later revived his firm Adlerwerke badged E100.

Allied intelligence services are actively interested in the development of "Mouse," but it was the Soviet troops managed to capture the two built a prototype of this tank and much of the documentation for nim.Nemtsy tried to prevent the seizure of their monstrous creations: one prototype was blown up, the second shot. Later one of them and had assembled a unique ekzemplyar.Transportirovka huge war machine was not easy. Before the USSR Maus was getting almost a year and arrived in Moscow in May 1946 goda.Na today the only one in the world is located in the suburban Maus tank museum in Kubinka.

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