Outside the Chieftains Hatch: Maus

Episode 7. Just a one-parter for this tank. It's not one which we could do an Inside the Hatch on, but we didn't want to just walk past it anyway.
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[@TheChieftainsHatch]

Yes, it really was a flamethrower mounting. First hull only

[@L96A1killerif]

"This little device here would've been a flamethrower, because, why not?" Cause flames make tanks look like they're going fast.

[@AtomicHombek]

You also have to paint them red.

[@lolz36235]

AtomicHombek RED GOES FASTA!!!!!

[@joeblow9657]

sped

[@staplafara]

This was the first tank with a cellar.

[@ZGryphon]

3:42 Boy, that guy really trusts that jack, doesn't he?

[@Kowalski089]

.... Yikes.

[@vthegoose]

I wouldn’t get under that thing if it was sitting on reinforced concrete

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

No, it's the coax 75mm. Flamethrowers would have been mounted on the rear.

[@SeedlingNL]

ParkerDaiGames You won't ever see that Karl ingame. You need a crane to load it, and supply tanks to carry the shells to it. And while a 600mm HE shell would devastate anything inside a grid section, it's reload would be longer then a match duration so you could never fire it :P

[@dposcuro]

Glad to see this, as every tour of the Kubinka Tank Museum I've seen, anywhere, never let anyone see...well, inside anything. Just seeing the scale of the Maus is just, awe-inspiring...and reinforces my belief that to even attempt building it was a massive waste of materials that Germany could ill-afford at that time. Once again, thank you Chieftain!

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

Never built, as far as I know, but there was certainly a proposal at least.

[@Nikoxion]

Being kinda curious to know what kind the recoil is actually, *it's a big gun*, _but it's a big_ _tank_. -Do you think the tank would notice? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >anyway>

[@pacesettenbrino2065]

My favorite tank! I watched this 20 times.

[@laalki80]

The size of that monstrosity. Stupid, but a cool piece of history.

[@JoakimfromAnka]

By monstrosity you mean monster and by stupid you mean awesome. :)

[@ronaldthompson4989]

Gotta remember the requirements. It was never meant to be a general purpose vehicle, it was meant to be as hard to kill as physically possible with the tech of the day. Basically a bunker that can be relocated to shatter aproaching allied assaults that panthers would counterattack. Of the E series, the Maus' replacement E-100 was the only one to reach prototype. The british tested it post war, then scrapped it for financial reasons :\

[@thethirdman225]

Contraband Agree. Interesting but stupid idea. The biggest question I have is, “What’s it supposed to do?” If the only answer it, “Destroy enemy tanks”, then it’s pretty pointless. There were plenty of more practical ways of doing that.

[@tomaspagni7970]

They should restore that thin!!! its fucking awesome

[@leokrupp4442]

I think it would probably be easier just to build a full size replica.

[@perfidiouspomegranate1599]

Yes!

[@tomaspagni7970]

they are gonna restore it! im crying lol

[@justforever96]

Where are they going to find parts? They won't even know what the right part IS in most cases, so at best you'd be fabricating hundreds of anciliary components (massively expensive, trust me), and most of them would be guesswork. That is how you ruin a unique historical object. What is here now is the actual machine the Germans built in WWII. You start adding a bunch of modern repro work, which may or may not be close to correct, you just detract from the value of the real machine. A unique, one of a kind historical car is valuable no matter how poor and ratty it is, UNTIL some idiot decides to 'restore' it, and makes it basically a replica using some parts from a valuable relic. It would be far easier to just build a running replica based on dimensions of the existing chassis.

[@RutansArmy]

From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for making this video!

[@Haloprogamer1996]

And here a place for a flamethrower because .... why not ? Great. Germans.

[@99kozi99]

Haloprogamer1996 fuck off!

[@ValentineC137]

+András kozák What did he do to you? :/

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Haloprogamer1996 they put them on bombers....

[@Chaosrain112]

PLEASE do this. I've been waiting a long time for my baby T95 to get covered in-depth. I want to see the interior!

[@DevSolar]

THANK you, Chieftain. I would have NEVER gotten the opportunity to actually see the inside of the mighty (if completely useless) Maus. This video is definitely something very special, since it's so much one-of-a-kind.

[@Ishmaille]

I've always wondered what it was like inside the Maus, and I've heard that Kubinka is still very hard for Americans to get access to, so I never thought I'd be able to see the interior. It's absolutely ludicrous. Thank you very much for bringing this to the internet!

[@warkus123]

just so that you know, the tank + turret had between 200-330mm(8-13 inches) (rough estimate from what i read) of armor, steel is heavy, the whole tank was a 200 metric ton project. the turret is the size of a wide van, with like 25cm (10 inches) of steel all arround (even rougher estimate from what i read)

[@SirDaffyD]

Being able to stand up straight under the main gun is impressive! The Chieftain isn't a short bugger, he'd be 6'2-6'3 tall. Great review of the Maus Chieftain, It's one bloody big tank! GenFUBAR.

[@alphaadhito]

Look how big the turret is. Size of a bedroom

[@ValentineC137]

Weight of a Tiger 1

[@ValentineC137]

***** it would have been useless, done

[@BatCrypto]

+Valentine in that size: YES. no bridge or highways could handle the weight of that monster. if it was maybe 2/3 or half of that size, then .... I don't even want to imagine it the world with Hitler in charge!!

[@ValentineC137]

***** the maus had some uses since it was made for replacing bunkers, the Ratte would be hit by anything and everything, you simply can't miss bombing it

[@BatCrypto]

+Valentine I am not gonna argue about this. you can do your research. obviously playing War Thunder won't give you all the military knowledge about war, tanks and tactics. Ratte secondary armament is: 1 × 128 mm KwK 44 L/55 -- 8 x 20 mm Flak38 --- 2 × 15 mm MG 151/15 and in addition, there are planes, artillery support, SPAA and infantry units in field. Allies certainly could try to bomb Ratte (which was not suppose to be only one tank!) but their chance were really close to zero to destroy it in one or 2 runs. not too many pilots are brave enough, skillful or dare to get close to 8x 20mm Flak38 ..!

[@bayouboyy]

A "Karl-Gerät" (040/041) (German literally "Karl-device"), also known as Thor and Mörser Karl. It was a WW II German self-propelled siege mortar (Mörser) designed and built by Rheinmetall. The one at Kubinka is named "Adam" or "Ziu". These mortars were extremely effective for their time.

[@SKALS-ICY-TOM]

Loved the video. Knew the maus was pretty much stripped on the inside, but its nice to get some eyes on and see it myself.

[@charlesmettson5303]

3:42 omg, imagine beeing under that mammoth of steel for a maintenance..:O And what a hell of a big turret that is. you could play a comfortable round of Schafkopf in there, with your 10 soldiers crew.:D

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

The 128mm pak 44 the Maus used was the same one the Jagdtiger had, and the same one that came from the field gun, that was used as a very effective artillery piece as well, and even better AA gun. So yes the did have a nice array of HE shells ready, even from back in 1943. Hope it helped, cheers.

[@HerbertAckermans]

The engine installed in the Maus was a Mercedes Benz 509, derived from the airplane engine Daimler Benz 603.

[@VRichardsn]

It is incredible how much space there is in the turret. Ok, it is really cramped, but in tank terms, it is roomy.

[@Platypusbill101]

T95 and T28 were the same vehicle IRL, just different designations (first T28 Superheavy Tank, then T95 Gun Motor Carriage, then the name was changed back to T28 Superheavy tank), the ingame T28 just has the outer tracks and spaced armour removed (they could be towed behind the tank) and features a modified front hull with a transmission (made up b WG), they just needed to come up with something to fill out the tier VIII slot.

[@fedup08]

one of the biggest tanks ever made the other the E100 and they called the mouse,and people say the germans haven't got a sense of humour

[@ValentineC137]

+fedup08 tiny RC bomb "GOLIATH" Biggest and heaviest tank to date "Maus"

[@Scoobz187]

We Germans can actually be funny people, from time to time. But more often then not we tend to have broomstick up the arse XD

[@sconger2002]

You forgot the dream tank the P-1000 landkreuzer, aka, Ratte

[@captiannemo1587]

That one is the long 54cm. Krupp relined the barrels to 54 cm when the 60cm barrels wore out. A video on that would be amazing. Also it takes a very long time to reload and re-aim.

[@MaximKozin]

never saw Maus's interior in such detail, awesome vid

[@ChakLong]

He goes in the tank in the video. The Maus was never mass-produced, and this Maus were combined prototype parts of the Maus. He mentions a turret detonation in the video, and so there isn't much to see inside.

[@0YtsanBlowout0]

I have never seen the interior of the Maus before. Thanks, chief!

[@FondlesHandles]

is that Karl in the background at 1:00?

[@Nikoxion]

Yes it is the 60cm Mörser Karl / Karl-Gerät which we had in the 8-bit mode last time

[@KarlArty]

+Skandranon Banefire you called?

[@Cr4zyKiD96]

" It's a big gun, but then again it's a big tank. Do you think the tank would notice? " Love the humor in this.

[@Other_Veo]

I definitally like the Karl-Gerät in the background, 600mm of pure artillary awesome.

[@MrGodzilla2015]

It's called Karl Gerat if i'm right, and yes, its and artillery, but not a rail road one, it had tracks (can't actually differentiate it, sorry if i'm wrong)

[@xt6wagon]

The US M6 heavy had a 37mm Coax. Muitiple pre-WWII tanks had a small high velocity gun for anti-tank in a turret, and a large low velocity gun for work against bunkers. M3 Lee is the well known one from the US, but pretty much only the germans avoided this... on production tanks atleast.

[@Tiny578]

My god what a shot trap on that turret, it's almost as if they made this tank for the laugh, and I'm glad they did.

[@alex-ry5ct]

I was there recently, the only "restriction" they have nowadays is double cost of a ticket for a foreigner (seems to be common practice for all Russian museums). And once you're in you can take as many photos as you like.

[@BigSwede7403]

Love the Maus ("Let´s build the biggest freaking tank we can!!") but it was completly impractical. What has me laughing the most is that itty bitty little coax machinegun next to the cannong. No, wait, it´s not an MG, it´s a 75mm cannon. :D

[@wjlasloThe2nd]

With all that space inside you'd think they could make it quite a bit smaller, with the same armor thickness, and get a significant reduction weight...Even crammed with 128mm shells, it looks like the turret at least would be quite roomy.

[@Ishmaille]

As he says at 0:54, it is a Karl-Gerät (nick-named "Adam" or possibly "Ziu" if Wikipedia is to be believed). It has a 600mm mortar.

[@BattleManiac7]

Man the scale of that thing is just MASSIVE. That turret alone, I'm guessing, is heavier than some cars (maybe most). Would have been a nightmare if that had manual traverse only, you could run faster than that thing can point its gun at you.

[@RasseruS]

I wonder if the Maus' major weak point located on the top rear hull is true? Hidden under the turret are air vents. If the Maus' turret is turned to the side and a shell could hit the air vents on the top rear hull? Then it would disable the tank.This might be a rare chance to hit the Maus in that spot.

[@LOLmixaliscyp]

as always nice video keep up the good work and inform us for more tanks.If you can, can you make a video with the M47Patoon i think is not in the game but i want to know about it my country used it for war

[@Terminus_4]

Hmm, Is that flame-thrower comment accurate? Ive seen a few pictures with what looks like a fuel drum mounted to the back of the tank allowing for an external fuel tank. Was never able to conferm if it was actually linked to the internal fuel tank or was just there so they could get out and refuel it, but if that had been a hatch that allowed for a hose to run into the tanks that might make sense.

[@captiannemo1587]

In theory it could be restored. But to do so they first have to get it out of the Museum. I think there are a few S-Boat engines left so that part could be taken care of. Its the guts of the turret and engine controls that would be hard to replace.

[@marcelmustang1]

Could you please do a AMX 50B vid. Very interested in the tank and really want to see al of the components on the beast!

[@vthegoose]

The expedition to the interior of Maus looks like an expedition to an abandoned tomb

[@Ishmaille]

Daigensui said it was "apparently tested" in the Japanese tanks thread, but I don't know her source. I imagine the barrel of such a weapon would wear out extremely quickly.

[@xt6wagon]

It was for targets that didn't need the 128mm. Not sure how that would have worked in practice, but the idea was that you could use it against softer targets while the 128mm was being reloaded. Also I'm not sure the 128mm had a full range of shells developed for it, so if it didn't have HE for example, the 75 would be needed for bunkers and the like. In practice, causing recoil while the loader is hauling a huge shell from the rack to the gun... doesn't seem wise.

[@TheKruxed]

No, modern tanks are using layered armour and some use depleted uranium sheets between the steel/titanium/ceramic/tungsten(whatever it may be using), as a rough example 100mm of today's armour would represent 500-1000mm of armour back in the days of ww2. You can check Chobham armour for detailed info of course then you have depleted uranium shells,energy penetrator set ups,laser guided etc which would knock out the maus before it even saw a modern tank. Then there is manoeuvrability

[@DarlockAhe]

Actually surprised that this thing wasn't scrapped. That's 100+ tons of steel after all, not a small amount.

[@AtomicHombek]

Holy crap. Was there a specialized railroad car to move that freaking thing? It would be an interesting read just to find out how they moved it there!

[@pat39576]

yes i did check and the. germans scuttled V2 from the inside which left the inside of the turret, at least the big guns, intact.

[@thiago.c123]

This video is pure gold. "This little device up here would've been a flame-thrower... because... Why not?" xD

[@BlackBunik]

Actually it is. You will need your own workshop for super heavy things, you'll need the man power, experts and of course money for the material. The amount of steel on this tank is massive and there are no spare parts, almost everything will need to be custom made. You'll have to sign contracts with other companies to produce such parts. And most importantly you will need time many years. Look up the Panther restoration video to get the picture.

[@recon1o6]

gun testing from maus development said the 128mm gun could pierce any russian armour sometimes beyond 3 km depending on the point of impact

[@builder396]

I doubt that the shell penetrated a spot with actual armor. As said by weightdefender it penetrated the turrets cheek, which I consider relatively reasonable. My assumption would have been that the shell penetrated the hull roof before detonating inside the tank (hull roof is 40mm AFAIK)

[@randyburks3004]

Nomatter how many times i watch this love seeing my tank on screen. :) :)

[@xthetenth]

Was what I read a while back accurate that the 75mm had most of the ammunition, while the 128 was more for hard targets and fortifications and had a correspondingly lower ammunition load?

[@dposcuro]

Chieftain, do you know of any ballistic data for that 75mm? I've heard it was a the KwK 44 L/36.5, but I've never seen any real data on the gun itself. Was it made just for the Maus/E-100 projects? Did it use a bottlenecked one-piece shell and brass, similar to the other 7.5cms? I have a standing suspicion that it would be roughly equivalent to the performance of the American 75mm guns of the era (better "cartridge" design, but somewhat shorter barrel).

[@TroySmith-cz1wr]

umm... aren’t they still waiting to see the interior in detail? “Outside the Chieftains Hatch” :-) It is a very nice video though... another great piece from the Chieftain... much thanks.

[@octane781]

Chieftain you rock. Maybe you could do T95(T28 Superheavy tank) next at Fort Benning, GA? :D

[@TheBidenhander]

There's a fully documented story of a Centurion that survived a nuclear blast and was able to be driven from the blast sight. That tank is far less heavily armored and robust.

[@fnglert]

Thank you so much for this video, Chieftain. Such an iconic tank, and such a tragedy that it's in such a poor condition. It's still an imposing vehicle. - Lert

[@captiannemo1587]

It is real. It was either a drum for 1k Liters of fuel for the flame thrower or it is a external fuel tank like those used on Russian tanks. This a big tank with a big engine and uses a lot of fuel. Internal tanks will not carry it far. Like an aircraft you use the external fuel supply first then the internal.

[@memonk11]

It looks like an enemy take could get right next to it, stay beneath the gun's depression, and blast away until some damage was finally done.

[@tyler_bt3326]

Not really, firing that close would damage the smaller tank's gun

[@whitedragon1204]

XD that smile sliding down the Maus XD I hope they do the T95 some time!

[@gr2908]

Wish they would start a donation to restore it, and yes the amount it would cost would be huge, but I want to see that old tank back in the shape it should be.

[@ph11p3540]

OMG they have theThor SPM beside the Maus at 0:58 to 1:03. I I wonder if this SPM has the schnabbel style rail transporter and loading vehicle. Can you cover that SPM in another video.

[@caboosez250]

I only have one complaint about inside the hatch series. They come too far in between. Keep up the good work.

[@vonedelweiss7649]

what about that mortar next to the maus? i seem to remember that being in service during the siege of Sevastopol (is that spelled correctly?).

[@taakijeden]

"This little device up here would have been a flamethrower, because... why not?" - Epic :D

[@Blaze_PR_Power]

NICE...i did not know there was a Maus still intact...i really want to know where is it that tank so that i can check it myselve...awesome

[@burningphoneix]

I'm guessing because the war was over the Soviets didn't bother to scrap it and decided to test the armour for themselves and because it is such a strange vehicle, they also decided to keep it around and preserve it.

[@toomanygregs]

Awesome Been Waiting To See This Tank For A While!

[@vavra222]

BTW NO MAUS RESTORATION IS HAPPENING! The museum disagrees with restoring "enemy" "not russian" tanks and sent WG back home.

[@DemiseandGanon]

Riiiight. Provide proof, troll.

[@DemiseandGanon]

You can't go around making claims and not bother to show proof when you have the proof already when you make the claim. I don't apologize. Ever.

[@vavra222]

DemiseandGanon Well then good luck in life douchebag, i added the source, also GOOGLe you stupid fuck. Now fuck off.

[@DemiseandGanon]

Some punctuation would be nice there.

[@vavra222]

Right, when you have nothing "clever" in your head, you go for this. What makes you think that i would bother with it when talking to you? Its not even my first language.

[@yygundam6462]

From what I have read, the Germans blew the prototype up themselves, since the vehicle just broke down and could not be repaired when it was on the road to Berlin， and the Soviets found another hull in a captured factory.

[@RSColddawg]

I hope you did the Tankball while you were there. ;)

[@mathiasbr08]

ohh i understand very good now. BUT one Question: Coax 75mm was it planted with the top of the gun up so it could shoot flys or what?

[@saucybackport]

plz add Maus to the title or description of the video, so people could find it in the future:)

[@ValentineC137]

The cooling system of the maus is bigger than the drivers position of any russian tank :D

[@fenderOCG]

he says you kind of need a ladder to get onto it -there is a ladder in one of the photos at the end. One a side note he sounds so depressed talking about the Maus... the whole thing IS depressing, it was an epic failure and we wish it wasn't.

[@troybenedict9173]

PLS next do a video of the IS7. its an amazing tank and its INTACT right their in kubinka!

[@PanzieLol]

Its literally impossible nowadays UNLESS somehow they find blueprints. But then they still have to find a foundry willing to produce such massive parts.

[@TERRORWEAPON1945]

Did some one hear for the Tiger 5 project was after Ratte project a medium and heavy tank thats drive over 120 kmh with two autoloaders guns

[@ZumZumZarum]

Seriously, someonre should start the restoration project for this thing. It would get sooo much visitor attention.

[@ReignReviews]

They checked it out a few months after capturing it then decided to send it to a museum because it was took cool to scrap

[@NinjaMoose234]

"Coax 75mm" Damn crazy Germans.

[@thecanuck11]

That is awesome! My favourite in-game troll tank

[@DiePinky]

thats not entirely right. those heavy mortars were actually called "gerät 040". thor, karl or adam were just the name of the individual vehicles

[@scythewieldergf]

Yeah, and that was probably the only thing stopping infantry from getting into the tank. Lots of German tanks were pretty poorly defended from infantry if caught without supporting infantry of their own.

[@SpudsMcHaggis]

Jealous, I'm very jealous. Another good vid Chief. Still waiting for you to do one on your namesake.

[@TheBidenhander]

Hellfire missiles didn't exist in world war two, and to be honest, I actually don't think a nuclear explosion of the sort we were able to generate back then would have really done any major damage to the Maus. The thing's incredibly heavy especially give its surface area, so it's not like it would go rolling away or get thrown around. Odds are the crew would suffer from the fallout, but I have no doubts the tank would survive with no major damage.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Badass, now do that weird-ass ball-tank they found in Manchuria.

[@ParkerDai]

That artillery piece beside him, the Karl? I want that in the game...

[@TheTeddyguy]

Thank you very much for the video Chieftain, they make it just too damn hard for Westerners to get into Kablinka.

[@GarrKhan]

Could you imagine just chill'n in the streets then slowly but surely you hear the rumbling of a great beast down the cobblestone road? Then from around the corner... MAUS! XD Everybody run!

[@solidspooks8689]

Hello Chieftan, do you have any info on what happenend to the E-100 hull? I read the Allies captured it; but what happanend after that?