The Ratte was designed to be the biggest tank ever built, a 1000-ton beast that could dominate the battlefield. But why was this colossal war machine never completed, and could it have changed history ...

Of all the harrowing, intimidating arms and artillery dreamed up by military engineers over the last few centuries, few induce the instinctive evacuation of enemy bowels like the sight of a ...

In 1942, Nazi engineers proposed the P-1000 Ratte, a 1,000-ton “land cruiser” armed with battleship guns, multiple turrets, and armor thicker than anything on Earth. It would have been the largest ...