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The reason they have put their tongue in their cheek and included a flying saucer on the box is probably down to the fabled but never proven legend of Nazi development

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/HAUNEBU.htm

Imagine having to change a busted track on that thing.

It's need a hundred BergeMause's (or is it BergeMice) to tow it.

Why bother to paint a camo job on this thing? Its so damn huge you may as well paint it lime green, pink and day glow orange cause EVERY single plane in the air will be pounding it to death! I envision a fleet of B-17's just carpet bombing it into dust. It may be neat to think about having a battleships turret on a tank but there's a reason those turrets are on battleships and not tanks and this is the reason!

sassgrunt wrote:Along the lines of the same subject, did you folks ever see this 1/35 build of this thing? Takes up more room on the workbench than a surfboard, I think. http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op= ... 353&page=1

Woz wrote:Imagine having to change a busted track on that thing.

It's need a hundred BergeMause's (or is it BergeMice) to tow it.

jackalope wrote:Why bother to paint a camo job on this thing? Its so damn huge you may as well paint it lime green, pink and day glow orange cause EVERY single plane in the air will be pounding it to death! I envision a fleet of B-17's just carpet bombing it into dust. It may be neat to think about having a battleships turret on a tank but there's a reason those turrets are on battleships and not tanks and this is the reason!

ALPHA

How many fuel tankers to the mile?

edpanzer wrote:How many fuel tankers to the mile?

Which might bring into the equation...just how big is the drivetrain on that monster

ALPHA

ALPHA wrote:

edpanzer wrote:How many fuel tankers to the mile?

Which might bring into the equation...just how big is the drivetrain on that monster

ALPHA

It would have had to have been diesel electric. Porsche used this type setup in his version of the Tiger simile to how modern day diesel locomotives work.

jackalope wrote:

ALPHA wrote:

edpanzer wrote:How many fuel tankers to the mile?

Which might bring into the equation...just how big is the drivetrain on that monster

ALPHA

It would have had to have been diesel electric. Porsche used this type setup in his version of the Tiger simile to how modern day diesel locomotives work.

UUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH...Not sure the technology was available back then lol... If you take the scale of that monster in comparison to the Maus...well...can you imagine what kind of gear set up they would need to drive those humongous sprockets the diameter of the final gear might be the same as one of those UFOs

ALPHA

Alpha, Yes the technology to have a diesel electric system was around. Check out some of Porche's stuff that he was working with back in the 1900's! Gas, electric hybrid cars, battery powered cars with the motors in the wheel hubs. Some really neat way ahead of his time type stuff! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche All you need to do is put in an engine to turn a generator, run power cables down to electric huge electric motors in a gear box similar to todays diesel electric locomotives and you have your drive system for this monster.

With what Porsche was working with he would have had no problem building a drive system for this thing.

jackalope wrote:Alpha, Yes the technology to have a diesel electric system was around. Check out some of Porche's stuff that he was working with back in the 1900's! Gas, electric hybrid cars, battery powered cars with the motors in the wheel hubs. Some really neat way ahead of his time type stuff! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche All you need to do is put in an engine to turn a generator, run power cables down to electric huge electric motors in a gear box similar to todays diesel electric locomotives and you have your drive system for this monster.

With what Porsche was working with he would have had no problem building a drive system for this thing.

Yes indeed Jack...diesel electrics were around back then... locomotives were just making the transition from steam to those ...thus the death of some of my most favorite engines like the T1 and K4s ...the power transfer would be possible..but can you imagine how big the drive motors would have to be? ...not to mention just how much power they would draw to pull that behemoth ....which would probably take us full circle and back to Ed's question of just how many fuel tankers would have to follow that puppy

ALPHA