Trumpeter 09541 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.VIII Maus

Panzer kampfwagenVIII Maus, the super-heavy tank designed during World War IIGermany. It is equipped with a 128mmKwK44 L55 gun and gun and a coaxial 75MM KWK L36.5 auxiliary guns, and all vehicles are equipped with a 240-60 mm armor. Mouse ultra-heavy tanks drive system experimental electric drive system, but compared to the weight of 188 tons, its speed can reach 18 kilometers per hour.

Maus tanks during World War II produced only two prototypes, the war has been the German military for a variety of tests, not used in combat, and later to end the war the Soviets seized, but two prototypes have been German varying degrees of destruction, so that later had to be number two turret mounted on the vehicle’s chassis One car back to the Soviet Union test, in 1952, after the Soviet tanks put together Maus test is completed, She is transported to Kubinka Tank Museum for permanent display show.