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Default Re: German "Maus" Tank

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Originally Posted by Von Poop View Post
They found it hard enough getting decent crossing points for 'conventional' Tauchpanzers, imagine trying to find a riverbank that the Maus wouldn't just plummet down nose-first. I could envision a battalion of engineers being required to dig enormous ramps at every crossing they came to.
Entirely correct, that's a big problem indeed. No bridges to support the weight, climbable riverbanks with the correct slope and stable enough surface, ditto for the river bed, all that makes the concept impossible. I wonder what went in those bright minds (and they had to have great engineering brains to design and build that contraption).
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