Re: [DS] Tank designs was Re: [ds] Ogres

	Howdy!

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, John M. Atkinson wrote:

> Uhh. . . yeah, it's a brilliant idea.

	The best direct fire weapon on he best armoured tank?

> If you assume you'll never have to cross a bridge.  No bridge in the
> world in 1945 could have supported it's weight, and most of them today
> won't.

	Wrong.	Many rail bridges would be able to carry it.  The Maus
was to be carried  by rail to most areas.  This thing was NOT meant to
truck under its own power to various engagements.  Check out Jentz's
"Panzerkampfwagon MAUS" and Sawondy and Bracher's "MAUS and other German
Armored Projects".  German engineers were NOT idiots.... :)

	Laterish!

	Ken