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

Brian wrote:
>The something-1000 and the something-1500 (a 1500 _ton_ tank) are both
>mentioned in that excellent Panzer website
	http://www.achtungpanzer.com/p1000.htm#1000

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Burger <burger00@camosun.bc.ca>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, 19 November 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [DS] Tank designs was Re: [ds] Ogres

>On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Kenneth Winland wrote:
> <<major major snippage>>
>> The MAUS is nothing (its manueverability was actually very good);
>> Hitler gave orders for a 1000-ton tank!  I kid you not; it was
discussed
>> in one of Uwe Feist's book (another noted armour historian).  It was
to
be
>> 1000-tons and be powered by 4 U-Boat engines.  We've scoured the
>> Bundesarchiv system to find significant references conerning this,
but
>> have found precious little.	No doubt Der Furhrer was in one of his
rants
>> as an "expert" and the engineers nodded their heads and did little.
>
>The something-1000 and the something-1500 (a 1500 _ton_ tank) are both
>mentioned in that excellent Panzer website some nice person posted a
>couple days ago. I've got the URL around somewhere, but it's late...
>
>That short Austrian corporal was the best war-winning tool the Allies
>had...God knows where a 1500ton tank would have been useful, outside
his
>head...
>
>Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
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