The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - The German Super Heavies

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; radu; Iris7; quietolong; Professional Engineer; alfa6; Aeronaut; GailA; ..

A lot of red x's above.

In order to reduce the ground pressure so that the tank could have some mobility, the tracks had to be made very wide—all of 43.3 inches. With the tracks taking up over 7 of its 12 feet of width, the Mouse presents a very strange appearance indeed from either a front or rear view. With such a track width, and a ground contact of 19 feet 3 inches, the Mouse keeps its ground pressure down to about 20 pounds per square inch—about twice that of the original Tiger.

Pz.Kfw. Maus (Projekt Porsche Nr. 205) in the
Tank Museum of the Red Army in Kubinka (Russia).
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Panzerkampfwagen "Maus"
Two photos on this page; click Bildergalerie
at bottom for 2d page with 10 more photos.

Arising from the alliance between Felix the Kat and the Katzenjammer Kids a RMA (Revolution in Mouse Affairs) prototype out of DARPA (Disney Animated Rodent Project Agency) developed a miniaturized single-crew electro-optical vehicle design for testing at Area 51 specifically to address the growing ingress threat of ufopoporazzi resulting in the M3A3 Stewart Light Light Light Tank:

41 posted on 07/12/2005 6:36:50 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

LOL

Love the cartoon mouse.

42 posted on 07/12/2005 6:38:59 PM PDT by Soaring Feather

To: snippy_about_it

Dry cat food soaked to sogginess in water is premium baby bird food. I've raised them from pink featherless hatchlings with it on recommendation of a veterinarian.

43 posted on 07/12/2005 6:49:46 PM PDT by Axenolith (Got Au? Ag?)

To: colorado tanker

Heck, I doubt the railroads could ship them.

Hey, they shipped the Dora gun, and Anzio Annie.

The Germans managed to get U-9, stripped down to the 140 ton hull, from Danzig to the Black Sea via canals and two coupled road transporters on Autobahn stretches.

44 posted on 07/12/2005 7:06:15 PM PDT by Axenolith (Got Au? Ag?)

From Achtung Panzer!,
here's another design partly completed (turret, later used as coast defense guns).

P 1000 / P 1500

45 posted on 07/12/2005 7:24:18 PM PDT by Axenolith (Got Au? Ag?)

I hope the two fledglings will make it. It would be nice if folks would leave nests alone this time of year, wouldn't it?

YES!! Folks still believe if they pick it up they can't put it back. The mother really doesn't mind that a human has come in contact with it, just put it back or leave it where it is. If it isn't obviously wounded it'll be fine in most cases.

It was fun having the little swallow around for a few hours though. :-)

46 posted on 07/12/2005 8:22:19 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

47 posted on 07/12/2005 8:23:04 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

M3A3 Stewart Light Light Light Tank

LOL!

48 posted on 07/12/2005 8:24:57 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

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