Explanation: In WW2, the decision-makers of Nazi Germany increasingly prioritized ‘impressive’ and increasingly heavy tanks over the more mobile designs of the Interwar period and early WW2.
Surely THIS ridiculous wunderwaffe will bring the Thousand-Year Reich victory! Do you not believe in the endsieg, TRAITOR?!
Not sure, if this is a German thing, but also here in Austria we call the heavy machines often with cute names for little things.
Thought, that’s not a regional thing though
Explanation: In WW2, the decision-makers of Nazi Germany increasingly prioritized ‘impressive’ and increasingly heavy tanks over the more mobile designs of the Interwar period and early WW2.
Surely THIS ridiculous wunderwaffe will bring the Thousand-Year Reich victory! Do you not believe in the endsieg, TRAITOR?!
Is there some hilarious reverse size joke in German, where the “smaller” tanks are Panther and Tiger, and the huge one is Mouse?
At least I always understood it that way
Not sure, if this is a German thing, but also here in Austria we call the heavy machines often with cute names for little things.
Thought, that’s not a regional thing though
A comparison with modern and lost war tanks might be useful as tanks did grow in a useful way, too. But they are much smaller still.
The Leo 2 is similar to the tiger 2 in size and weight, being somewhat heavier, even.
It’s like looking at a family tree of the species who didn’t make it.