It's carrying parts of a nuclear reactor on its back - over 400 tonnes of metal of cargo alone - and navigating regular roads while doing so. That's not the best way of doing so, however. Sure, war isn't its purpose, but that doesn't mean we can't shove weapons on those big trucks to make then work as battle platforms. It's a huge cargo truck, to move things like dirt or ore. we already have stupidly large land vehicles, don't we? Solutions drawing upon Fantasy/magical themes are not in the spirit of this question.Ī lot of people are focusing on the viability of making giant land vehicles. I'm looking for answers that stick with as realistic an interpretation of physics and engineering as possible. You are free to posit a war anywhere on or off Earth. Fascist nations, aliens, robots, all are fair game. No anti-gravity or micro-fusion reactors unless you absolutely have to.
I would prefer technology kept to approximately modern day or earlier.
The overall design of the tank, although it should still fit the bill of being a 1000+ ton monster, bristling with multiple oversized weapons systems. What combination of circumstances would lead to Ultra Heavy Tanks being a sensible and efficient weapon of war? In the real world, there isn't a single thing that a Ultra Heavy Tank can do that can't be done better by the same cost of conventional armoured vehicles.īut we aren't interested in the real world. 
if destroyed in battle, represent an immense and unrecoverable loss of manpower and material. absolutely guzzle fuel, likely requiring either a non-conventional powerplant or be a logistical nightmare to keep supplied. require specialised training and manpower requirements to support and operate. struggle with a number of different types of terrain that more conventional vehicles could deal with. be a sitting duck for artillery barrages and aerial bombardment. not be mobile and splittable, like a conventional armoured division. Require as many resources to build as an entire detachment of conventional tanks. Of course, this monster was never built and if it had, it would have been worse than useless. Simply scale up a tank to weigh 1000+ tonnes, add a stupid amount of guns and armour, and you end up with something like the image below.
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