• @PugJesusM
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    28 hours ago

    Actually, the mega-tank projects that they undertook were mostly abandoned because:

    A. They were so heavy they literally sank into the ground

    and/or

    B. They were so slow they were sitting ducks for artillery

    Up-armoring the tracks was one of the great innovations of tanks, and it took ad-hoc explosives rigged up as the first specialized anti-tank mines to get through to them.