German Super-Heavy Flakpanzers? | Fake Tank Friday

Today we will look at the concept of the super-heavy flakpanzer supposedly created by Germany in WW2. Is there any historical basis to this or is it more wehraboo nonsense?

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[xXSgtJackXx]

I love how all late-war german designs are always drawn in the middle of a destroyed city lol

[oriontheraptor]

I love hypothetical ww2 designs they are so impractical and yet so cool lookin

[csapsuirad]

i love how they look, i think they could be used in a rts or a game with fictional tanks. It could be some sort of super weapon with a cool mechanic like killing planes, havy tanks, rockets etc. Would be cool

[RoDe_]

I'd definitely love to hear the story of 7.5cm Jagdsherman. Who came up with that? 😂 It's so ridiculous 😂

[TypeZeta]

These super Heavy tanks always look cool but are so violently impractical especially in a wartime scenario where battle lines change and shift. Their large size and slow speeds also make them very very tempting targets for Air support and artillery. I’ve had to explain this to a friend who is a Maus fanboy

[alphariustheheadofthehydra]

Hey Cone loving the content, for fake tank friday I would love to see an in depth look of the Leman Russ Battle tank from Warhammer 40k for a fake tank Friday, considering in a universe which is completley over the top a comparably sane ww2 esque tank (at least the hull) holding its own in the grim darkness of the far future I think in would be an intersting episode.

[rizrbey]

Something else that's overlooked, flakpanzers were meant to counteract(or at least deter) Allied tactical aircraft at low altitude. Which means that 88mm or 128mm weaponry would've been unwieldy and slow to follow and reload because they're meant to tackle high-flying strategic bombers. So in that way they would have performed worse than their much smaller 20mm, 30mm, and 37mm armed counterparts.

[datawizard]

Holy shit I never knew that other Maus hulls and turrets had been made but hadn’t been put together with the rest of the components. I always thought only the 2 running prototypes were only made

[kabob]

2:04 That looks like it belongs in something like Red Alert, seriously the picture even looks like a Unit Icon.

2:07 You've all heard of Landships but I present to you the Land Patrol Boat.

Honestly the second and third design shown in this video seem kind of cool and nice... Bit stupid though, the twin 128's especially look ridiculous. On the one hand they're fake tanks but on the other I genuinely like the designs.

[choutca]

I don't think you read every comments, but I want you to know that I really enjoy your content. Instructive and entertainment ! Thanks for your work!

[GOD_O_WAR]

I can see the maus AND e100 haveing aa guns mounted to the top of the turret but not become the aa it self

[BenedictFB]

next episode about fake tanks i would like to suggest about any kind of double barrel tanks such as the apocalypse and mammoth or any other, and why this kind of concept "never" really Made to real life?

[foxenstinevon.gaming]

As a scale modeler I would totally build some of these tanks, the are impractical and wacky but look cool, and as long as you aren’t claiming it was real there isn’t much harm that can be done

[exo]

Can you take a look at tanks with APS ? Still waiting for the Favorite tanks from Twitter video 😂, don’t know why but it makes me excited /interested to see your take on the ideas from the community. Great video!!

[cmsIGauffahrgestellPanzerkampf]

The concept of using the raw hulls from standard superheavies is a very unlikely scenario in many ways but I could see the hull design being converted into a waffentager like hull concept where it has significantly reduced armour and just be made to house large weapons to make it cheap enough to use practically as you don't need that much armour other than the roof armour and therefore not need so many speciallised components to handle the weight in an AA and a tank hunter/SPG.

[rmnzir]

2:06 that tank remembered me of another design I saw, (I don't know if it was a real or just a "fan made"), named Flakpanther which fired the same type of missile( the Rheintochter R1) and of all of the designs I've seen so far that was the most possible to be made by the germans, and I've seen a lot of people say that some things could have won the war for the axis, but this time I have to say that not really the vehicle but more the missile, the anti-air Rheintochter could have had a major impact on the war and have the allies on the run.

[ArcaanRitual]

As an avid What-if model maker and a history nerd, I loved this video, however I don't think it's fair to blame model manufacturers for end user disinclination towards researching their subject material.

Love your vids, cone! Can't wait for the next one!

[Commander_]

The Krokodile model i found in Google was interesting and i love the design.

[bullpupgaming]

I can't wait for Gaijin to add that to WarThunder and make a special event vehicle with a ridiculous BR lol

[thegamingzilla]

with the Dual 88 Maus. the model company that did it for an alternate reality series