panzerkampfwagen viii maus “ a super-heavy tank of german design from world war ii.

With a total weight of 188 tons, it was the heaviest and largest tank ever designed, but it never entered series production or saw combat; the germans built only two unfinished prototypes. The decision to develop a super-heavy tank weighing 75-90 tons was taken at a conference between adolf hitler and albert speer on 5-6 march 1942, as a development of earlier plans (cancelled in favor of a new design) for the panzerkampfwagen vii l ¶we