The Maus Super-Heavy Tank was a WWII giant. Learn about its design, power, and why it never saw real combat. Landmark Voter ID Bill Passes Kurt Russell delights fans as he reunites with co-star ...

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.

The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was one such weapon. It was impractical and also huge — so huge it holds the record for the heaviest fully-enclosed tank ever built. The Maus weighed 180 metric tons.

By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after Kursk — effectively lost the war. It was just a matter of time ...