Hi all, i found this while i was poking around the net.
Apparently there were two made. It weighed in at 95 tonnes and carried a 155mm gun. Thats all i know for now. What a beast of a tank!!
Just thought you all should see it…
Boomer…
The only one left can be found at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox.
I think Cromwell Models released an all resin kit of this (“Tortise”?) super heavy tank about 10 years back.
cheers
Mike
Here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry on the T28.
…I saw this tank modeled many, many years ago (1980?) in a Military Modeling issue…I believe it was designed specifically to take on Seigfried Line fortifications but it came too late…
Yes, it’s walking distance from my house.
Yup, I saw that one too; it was an amazing project!
I actually saw this monster being restored at Boatright (Ft. Knox) back in '78. They were in the process of re-attaching the “outerbank” suspension at the time, the two things that stick in my memory was how tight the fighting compt. was on such a huge vehicle, and the massive breechblock in that main gun.
Steve
Love the quad tracks in the front on picture. Also kind of a werid design for ww2 US. Looks pretty German to me, right along th lines of a Hetzer on steroids.
I can’t remember if it was here or on another site, but someone in the last 4 or 5 months posted a 1/16 R/C build of this beast - I think it was nearly all scratch. It was pretty sharp. It had the quad tracks on it, but I don’t know/can’t remember if they all had power (the memory ain’t what it used to be). There were photos of it driving around next to a 1/16th Tiger. It made the Tiger look small. The only complaint was that it drove much faster than scale, which I think must be pretty common for the R/C tanks.
forgive an armor newbie, but pic 2 has a single track and pic 4 has double track. Does this make the case for at least two versions???
i gotta find more info on this monster… [:)]
HEY! What an astute observation! That went right by me!
WHo’s got an idea? Looks like there was indeed two? Or was he second track set added after trials due to suspension failure?
…as I recall, the tank was designed so that the outer sets of tracks could be removed for transport and when it needed to negotiate tight streets or squeeze through openings in the Seigfried line…in open terrain the outer set was connected and off she went…
I believe the second set of tracks would be needed to relieve the high ground pressure level of this monstrosity![:)]— not going anywhere stuck in the mud[:D]—tread[8D]
Man, I gotta do that to my race bike! [(-D]
Wouldn’t this technically be considered a “Assault Gun”?
SST
…yes, it was designed to assault heavy fortress emplacements…like teh Siegfried line…
…how bout this for a '46 concept dio: This beast facing off with a Maus on the German border…YIKES!
oops…after reading a bit more you are correct…(not that i would ever doubt you MR [:)] ) however, looking at pic #2, the cover for the track (being an armor newbie i haven’t a clue what its called) is only wide enough to cover a single track. what do they do when the outer track is attached??? i would imagine that for the full on quad track beastie that if they were to remove the outer tracks, there would still be a provision in the “deck” to cover the outer tracks.
i hope this makes sense…it is VERY early [:D]
www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/modern/dmt28.htm Heres the link to a 1/35 T-28 tortise
Tankluver…
Thanks for posting that cool link. It has the good technical info plus the model info.
It sure was the …missing lynx…on this thread…(sorry that’s really poor)
Boomer…