Key point: It was an act of desperation—and an engineering marvel. By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after Kursk — ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Was it useless? Not exactly. Trojca noted that test drivers found the Maus easy to steer — which might seem counter-intuitive in such a beastly machine. And it was ...

From nuclear bomb-dropping space shuttles to the most gargantuan gun ever used in combat, Adolph Hitler threw every idea he could think of at the wall to see what would stick during World War II. Some ...

Weighing 188 tons, the Maus was the heaviest tank ever built. Designed to crush anything in its path, it became an engineering marvel—and a battlefield ghost. Tina Smith's Face-To-Face With 'Shocked' ...