Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster
The Landkreuzer Monster was, as its name suggests, a monster of a design. The largest of a few similar designs, essentially, the plan was to make the 800mm Schwerer Gustav railway gun into a tank. The 1,500 ton, 138ft long, 59ft wide and 23ft high Landkreuzer Monster was to crew over a hundred men and possess a sizeable armament beyond the 800mm main gun of a further two smaller howitzers and dozens of anti-aircraft canons and machine guns. It was to be powered by four diesel engines used in U-boats and travel at a “land cruising” speed of a little over nine mph. However, a the Schwerer Gustav already cost German war machine 7 million Reichsmarks, it is plain to see why the project never got further than the drawing board.
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