There are at least 5 bands with the name The Drive.

1. A 5 piece po… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least 5 bands with the name The Drive.

1. A 5 piece pop-punk band from Raynham, MA, United States that was active circa 2000-2003 whose singer was Ben Potrykus of Receiving End Of Sirens, and later Martin Johnson (now at Boys Like Girls)

2. One is a South African soul band established in '71. The other two rockbands, one located in Chicago, IL, originally from Michigan; another is a band that formed in Boston in the 80's;

3. The Drive (that formed in the 80's) was a rock band consisting of Pat Dreier, Jamie Walker, Tony Paolino, and Paul Kochanski. Pat Dreier, Jamie Walker and Paul Kochanski created The Drive from their previous band The Lines (which also included Eric Hafner and Rick Weden). The Drive's two biggest hits were Doin' the Countdown and Let the Rain Come Down. However, Patrick Dreier and Tony Paolino had to leave the band because "domestic responsibilities". Later Dreier and Paolino joined again creating the band PT73.

4. The Drive was an acoustic rock band from Chicago, IL/Michigan, United States.
The Drive is a get-up-and-go Acoustic Rock Trio that strives to push the envelope in ways acoustic music rarely does. Their performances deliver high-energy entertainment to fans of all genres.

5. The Drive was a post-hardcore/alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. They had a melodic driven sound and released 2 EPs (recorded with Kris Crummett), In Vertigo in 2011 and Dream In Color in 2012. They can be heard here: soundcloud.com/the-drive

Members:
Danny Lopez - Vocals
Chris Jones - Guitar
Andrew Mendoza - Guitar
Andrew Knight - Bass
Alex Castillo - Drums/Programming

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Cursed
The Drive Lyrics

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A broken mind,
All left behind,
A turn in kind,
A twist to wind

Wanted myself,
Wanted please help,
Wanted and fallen,

Left out, crawling

Repeated words
Revel Absurds
A telling lie
They called it

Wanted myself,
Wanted please help
Wanted and fallen,
Left out, crawling
Wanted myself,
Wanted, please help
Wanted and fallen,
Left out, crawling

Cursed a common girl
Cold and lonely world
Has she gone insane
Screaming, screaming out her name

Wanted, myself,
Wanted please help

Overall Meaning

The Drive's song "Cursed" is a poignant portrayal of a struggling individual's broken mind, the pain and suffering that follows, and their desperate plea for help. The opening lines describe the myriad of shattered thoughts and emotions that have been left behind in the aftermath of a traumatic experience. The line "A twist to wind" suggests that the person's mind has taken a dark and twisted turn, making it difficult for them to see a way out of their pain.

The repetition of the phrase "Wanted myself, Wanted please help, Wanted and fallen, Left out, crawling" is an indication of the person's desperation and need for assistance. They are crying out for help, but they feel lost and alone as they crawl through their agony.

The chorus section of the song is a chilling commentary on society's tendency to stigmatize and ostracize those who are struggling to cope. The lines "Cursed a common girl, Cold and lonely world, Has she gone insane, Screaming, screaming out her name" present a cautionary tale about how quickly we can push people over the edge through our inhumanity and indifference.

Overall, "Cursed" is a haunting and emotional song that delves into the darker aspects of the human mind and the need for greater empathy and compassion in our interactions with others.

Line by Line Meaning

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Aymon FOXC

2y↑1

@Big Joe I imagine this monster would have likely been deployed during counter-action manoeuvres and at most for punching through trenches at 'vulnerable locations'.

In most foreseeable scenarios, the lumbering tank would have been far too rare and valuable to be deployed in any sort of offensive against enemy lines except perhaps, in major ones similar to the Battle of Amiens.

It could have been used to help reclaim towns and trenches lost to break through action by the allies, especially in containing break throughs beyond the cover range of allied artillery.

It's worth noting that all of this use would likely have been in areas that had seen comparatively little action (until the introduction of tanks) where there was still unbroken, unpulverised ground and with weather permitting.

I say this because other tanks of the time were successfully deployed with good effect under these circumstances.

Afterall, we all know what happened when tanks tried to launch an offensive over broken, muddy ground and the commanders / soldiers of the day knew it too.

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ConeOfArc

2y↑101

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Dim Beam

2y↑1

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2y↑2

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Rodrigo Costa

2y↑1

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PickelJars ForHillary

2y↑2

@Peter Titus You sure do cry a lot.

Peter Titus

2y↑1

@PickelJars ForHillary Oh sure thanks for reminding me! I surely bow for such a majestic alpha male of yours!

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BHuang92

2y↑1.2K

The ancestor of all of German tank traditions, big guns, big armor, and underpowered engines.

Shane Doe

Great ideas limited by the resources and technology of the time. What they made always looked awesome

Hitlers Butler

@Charles Debyah and 1 cm stick suspension

CHillOGAnzuYT

@Charles Debyah lol

Mert Çuhacı

you forgot zhe transmission.

Combat Beard

2y↑1

Sounds like their current car designs too.

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Larry Fontenot

2y↑861

The Germans did indeed have engines in WW1 capable of producing the horsepower needed for the K-Wagen. If you didn't find any, it's probably because you didn't look at naval engines. The Diesels used in German submarines and torpedo boats generated the horsepower ranges mentioned, and were often used in pairs. If they were using them for the K-Wagen, it might even explain the size of the beast since the K-Wagen would have been roughly the size class of a torpedo boat or U-boat.

Technotuna

so you're telling me this would have been much more of a literal "land ship"

The Other

The Daimler 6 cylinder engines in the U2 produced around 600hp from a pair in 1908 so engines of that power range existed.

Stanislav Czebinski

@Ralph e Yeah - no. Not really.

Stanislav Czebinski

@Christophe Schneider Oh, my bad. I thought this whole discussion was about what engine was most probably used in the K-Wagen. I am so sorry!!

Stanislav Czebinski

@John Keyes He mentioned an aero engine with water-jacketed intake manifolds. Inside a K-Wagen, with 1910's metallurgy and engine oil, this means that engine would last 3 minutes at best before block and pistons become one solid piece. Hence my reply.

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Ealsante

2y↑481

So it turns out that even in the earliest days, German tank design theory was a pathway to many monstrosities some consider to be... underpowered.

It_aint_me

2y↑1

It's ironic. They could convince other nations to design more reliable tanks, but not themselves.

Scooter George

2y↑1

@CalzerDan Just goes to show how overrated German armor was 1939-40.

CalzerDan

2y↑1

@Scooter George They were training tanks pressed into general service.

Creative Horse

2y↑2

Potential history🤘

Green&Blue Productions

2y↑3

@S P May point in bying bringing the british up is you keep acting like only germany had issues with reliblity the UK has only made 3 or so relable tanks ever.... By the end of WW2 the panter was fine... Which those issues don't count on a design level of you'll be saying the same about the M4 and T-34.

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MDP_Toaster

2y↑543

>Make the heaviest tank ever
>still no cannon can hit a target directly in front of it.

Gilad Pellaeon

@Obe Lion The British also Never used tank turrets in WW1, the Germans experimented with them in the LKs and the Oberschlesien

Obe Lion

thats weird right? WW1 battleships had rotating turrets, so you dont need twice the guns, yet in all the german tanks they never got the idea to do the same.
maybe they were just super afraid to get surrounded and not be able to shoot at every enemy at once

JonatasAdoM

@TheCaptNoname Imagine the Tank battles with tanks making lines and firing full broadsides.

Shuto Walsojad

@JohnBlack88 pls only do so on very soft ground xD

JohnBlack88

2y↑2

@Claas Relotius you could lay down and let it roll right over you.

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William

2y↑282

In BF1 some of the French/German maps give a team a Char 2C tank as a behemoth. It'd be cool if the Germans would get the K-Wagen instead

Shardell

2y↑1

I feel like I remember them wanting to do that. Maybe I’m just misremembering, but I remember seeing an untextured prototype for it, but I could be totally thinking of something entirely different. Considering the Char 2C was like the best behemoth in the game and the k wagen would need 4 people to even have somewhat full cannon coverage, it’s pretty understandable why they would leave it

Briseur De Lance

2y↑1

@zoie sulak
I think I might have heard of that projected US tank in another video, but I can't remember what video it was. :-(

zoie sulak

2y↑1

@William I mean if fallout 3, new Vegas and oblivion got a update recently so can bf1

William

2y↑2

@JohnBlack88 I said it would have been cool. I didn't say I wanted it now. BF1 hasn't had active development for years so to expect an update like that now is silly.

JohnBlack88

2y↑4

@William I am genuinely confused. You just said the Germans should get the k wagon. The losing team always gets the behemoth. The k wagon also had more guns. But no turret so you'd rely on your teammates more so than the char. But still. Would be cool to see.

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Broken Cat

2y↑129

even if there are none left, some museum should and i mean SHOULD make a mockup model with some form of inside so people can walk around this behemoth and inside, just to see how massive it was for a tank.

JohnBlack88

2y↑1

@Crispylizard 43 the Saudis could easily do it. There wealth is literally impossible to grasp. They could purchase 3 rattes and not even flinch.

Crispylizard 43

2y↑2

Yeah I mean they already replace parts with unoriginal pieces if a museum started a fundraiser to make mockups of cool nonexistent tanks I'd donate I don't get why it's fine to replace parts but not fine to make copies from detailed blueprints it's not like you need an engine or anything it's just meant to be a cool piece of history and I'm pretty sure the shit that makes tanks run is MUCH more expensive then the guns hull and tracks(although maybe not for the k-wagen due to its sheer size and guns) if I were a billionaire I would 100% commission the Ratte and gustav replicas be built and offer to build it in front of the tank museum or nearbye guarantee it would become the main attraction easily(maybe not feasible though but it would be cool asf)

gamecube-king/ devon3

2y↑6

a mild steel mockup could end up with an acceptable cost if the reproduction of inner systems isn't pushed toof ar into th eaccuracy/realism

The Skipboy

2y↑14

I really don’t see why more companies don’t make mockups of old or prototype tanks, besides money of course. If I had the money I would totally remake a ton of classic tanks

milksheikh

2y↑179

V6 engines were very uncommon, even up to the 1950s, the only V6 engine I can think of that was around at the time was made by Deutz(since 1908) & was intended for marine use so it likely was able to produce 650hp or even more but it would have been absolutely massive.

Tutlavi Čmrljo

2y↑2

@Jon-Paul Filkins jaguar and daimler v12 cars were called "double six" until recently so definitely a possibility

bruh sound effect

2y↑1

@milksheikh true

Jon-Paul Filkins

2y↑1

@milksheikh With something this old, and from this confused a situation (post war, there seems to have been a lot of hiding stuff from allied commissions). So I'm certain that some of the photos may have been more illustrative.

milksheikh

2y↑2

@bruh sound effect I think he might have just sourced generic engine diagrams for that part of the video.

bruh sound effect

2y↑1

@Jon-Paul Filkins I think he probably couldn’t tell what he was looking at in photos, a v12 would be way more likely

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Order & Chaos

2y↑234

"Honey,new Cursed by Design is in 60 minutes".

Charges in Bt-7 tank on the road

Aymon FOXC

Road turns to deep mud. Gotta get out and walk. 😞

Gabriel Daughenbaugh

2y↑1

inner*

Gabriel Daughenbaugh

2y↑1

Unleases in German blitkrieg!

Ivan Krylov

2y↑11

Drives over bridge posts in bt-5

Endless Waffles

2y↑73

The Germans realized the only real threat to these tanks is artillery fire, so they attempted to make the tank big enough for artillery to hit it accurately.

Klobi for President

2y↑4

That's good sportsmanship.

Athenajayviel Jerios

2y↑5

Germany is really dumb at ww's back then.

Mr.Mỏ nhọn

2y↑235

One sentence to perfectly describe that thing: Tall, big, gorgeous and painfully thicc.

Nigel

Borgar

Phantom4545 45

2y↑5

It is honestly the best looking ww1 tank. Like it’s so sleek lmfao it’s shape is very nice

Thomasawl

2y↑16

Daebom, do your thing.

Will Rogers

2y↑62

I have had a fascination with military hardware and history for as long as I can remember. I have also nurtured a love of doodling pictures of various weaponry since I was a young lad, with no real concern for how “practical” or “realistic” such designs were.

These twin passions grew so powerful during my high school years that I had a 3-ring binder full of pictures of tanks, airplanes, etc. to serve as inspiration for my own eccentric drawings.

I mention this to explain why, as I was watching this video, I thought “You know, I bet I could fit the turret of a Char 2C on that thing and make it EVEN COOLER!!”

Peasant Level Crafting - Terrain for everyone.

2y↑1

@zachary shemansky I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking that.

zachary shemansky

2y↑2

@Sorain1 IT IS THE BANEBLADE

Sorain1

2y↑4

Honestly, a turret on this thing, slap an Imperial eagle on it? No one would know it isn't from warhammer 40k.

DarkNinjaCorporation

2y↑35

Imagine being aboard one of these things, alongside 26 other men, when most people had never seen a car before

Gilad Pellaeon

@JonatasAdoM Ships have literally been around for as long as humans have used tools

JonatasAdoM

I mean, they probably would have heard about ships by then.

Briseur De Lance

2y↑4

Never seen? I think most would have at least seen pictures of it and in real life. But most would indeed have never had the occasion to drive one.

Kringe

2y↑98

So, this is where the German trend of "if it doesn't work well, just make it bigger" comes from.

Shuto Walsojad

@RocketboyX ye all the maintenance equipment needs room xD

Shuto Walsojad

Größer und böser!

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@Jackson Flax well, I would say a Panzer IV and Sherman have roughly the same strength if they face each other. So 5 Panzer IVs against 5 Shermans is like a 50/50 and the winning side will most likely have taken damage and lost some tanks. But a heavy on the other side either repealed the enemy tanks or got destroyed, high risk but if you succeed you took almost no serious damage. A sherman most likely can not destroy a German heavy tank from the front (of course there are versions that can and situation which allow them to) so the heavy has a pretty good chance of winning. Now back to your point about 5 tanks. I just took a random number but it is realistic that a heavy can take on 5 Shermans especially the way Germany used heavy tanks in the late war, they positioned the tank on a strategic important point and defended it. The heavy woundn't be able to destroy all 5 tanks but it still completed its job. The remaining tanks wouldn't advance any further and would retreat because they don't have the firepower nor armor to take it on. Same if the heavy would be used offensively but it would be more exposed. Americans had tanks with enough firepower but not nearly as many as shermans so the chances of such tanks clashing into eachother is rather low. American tanks meeting German tanks was already rare (if you look how many tanks Americans used) Now the crazy part. Compare the mass of a Tiger I, about 57 tons and a Panzer IV with about 25 tons. Now picture yourself what's more efficient to use against 5 Shermans, 125 tons of steel or 57

Jackson Flax

2y↑2

@[Content Deleted] This theory also assumes that one German heavy would actually be worth 5 mid to late war shermans lol

RocketboyX

2y↑1

No, it is 'make it more complicated' the bigness is just a side effect.

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FreedomFighterEx

2y↑26

As much as engineering disaster it is, you gotta hand it to the German that they get the aesthetic of these machine down quite nicely.

ConeOfArc

2y↑10

If the aesthetic is shoe box then sure

Hayden Fry

2y↑20

I had so much pride in my country when you mentioned the US designed a super heavy tank and then decided to name it the “TRENCH DESTROYER”

d

2y↑1

this could only have been topped if they named it "DESTROYER OF TRENCHES" instead of "TRENCH DESTROYER"

Lance Harker

2y↑31

I for one, appreciate the honesty about the accuracy of the sources, way to many channels just read things out like they are concrete facts.

Shinji Donohue

2y↑116

"JOHNNY, HOLY SHIT, ITS THE MEGA TOASTER!"

Big Joe

OMG not THE MEGA TOASTER !

Slender Man Minecraft

2y↑4

@Toasty Вread thank goodness it’s slow

Toasty Вread

2y↑1

@Slender Man Minecraft ITS REVERSING INTO US AAA-

Slender Man Minecraft

2y↑1

@Toasty Вread I don’t know run behind it

Nicolas Cormontagne

2y↑1

@Toasty Вread transformers style

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Joel notsure

2y↑61

I can picture a bunch of overdressed, bemedaled Vons toasting one another and proclaiming how this vunderveapon will push the hated Britishers into the Channel, while a few engineers stand in the corner and quietly shake their heads.

Jerry Chen

@Big Joe going to need to build a railway over to where it's broken down!

Aymon FOXC

2y↑1

Big Joe

@Edward Fletcher You're right ! sorry !

Edward Fletcher

2y↑2

@Big Joe Ummm I did say NOTHING could recover it ..

Big Joe

2y↑1

@Edward Fletcher Recover it ? Are you mad ? ;) You would next a locomotive to pull that nightmare out of the ground. LMAO Once stuck in mud, this thing is not moving unless you destroy it. It's better than the TZAR tank, but still ridiculous. No soldier was present when a genius created this non-sense land cruiser.

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Richard Andre Banatanto

2y↑66

The tank would be a nightmare to even steer more over go over sharp hills or very wide trenches.

Briseur De Lance

2y↑3

And that is without even mentioning the logistical nightmare it would have been. Or the maintenance quagmire.

kittehgo

2y↑9

Then you have the mud and craters, I mean no man's land wasn't a flat dry surface. Not forgetting debris like barbed wire, it would have been fascinating even a bit scary to see it coming.

TheKamiran85

2y↑11

The first plans for the K-Wagen were made with 2x200hp engines, after the increase to 150 tons, 2x650hp engines were planned and still planned, even the tank lost 30 tons thanks to a shorter design.
I have checked every U-Boat class of Germans in WW1, and none of them used engines with exactly 650hp.
6-Cylinder diesel engines reaching the expected amount of power are possible, the U-Boat class UB-III had 2 engines with each 550hp, produced from 1916 on.
The DMG (Daimler) was planned to deliver the engines, which were already producing engines for the german Air force. But their biggest ever used engine was a 260hp in the Daimler G.III, an experimental giant bomber prototype. While its still possible, that a 6-Cylinder diesel engine can reach the mentioned amount of hp in 1918, its unlikely that DMG were able to develope and deliver such an engine at the start of the production of the K-Wagen. I can imagine, they were simply producing the tanks and were placing weaker engines into them to do some trials till they can replace the weaker engines with the originally planned 650hp engines from DMG.

Ghostmaxi

2y↑33

4x 7,7 cm guns. :O then they are most certainly the 7,7 cm LeFH 16. Quite powerful with around 625m/s iirc.

Shuto Walsojad

@Delta Assault welcome to germany where we use metric and comma as decimal separator.

Hence the fact that we even say "Sieben Komma sieben" and not "Sieben Punkt sieben"

Hector accented

2y↑1

@Delta Assault Many countries use "," as the decimal separator and "." as the thousands one

Ghostmaxi

2y↑3

@Delta Assault no in germany such mesures are with a "," such as money 7.500,00 € as to US $ 7,000.00

Delta Assault

7.7 cm

Daniel Sprouls

2y↑4

Unless the perspective in the drawings is misleading, that tank would have had absolutely horrible ground clearance. That huge flat bottom hull would have gotten hung up causing a major engineering problem to get it unstuck. Imagine doing that under fire. The excess length and weight would mean that you would likely sink into any obstacles you were trying to cross.

TomsStuff

2y↑10

Very interesting video about one definetely overlooked tank! Now that we got that side of the spectrum covered, how about a video about some of the more reasonable designs made by the Germans towards the end of WW1? The LK I and LK II are certainly interesting and did in fact leave a legacy as being Swedens first tanks...

Chilledfish

2y↑4

In the war, there were also many truck drivers, so a truck driving simulator sponsor would fit a channel about tanks like a glove.

Volatile 100

2y↑3

For the engine, my guess is a submarine engine converted to land usage, like the planed engines for the P.1000. They had engines that could reach 900shp, so it's not exactly a dream to have two 650hp engines.

RyllenKriel

2y↑3

This tank had a similar design from Hungary that replaced some of the turret weaponry with pneumatic tubes that launched rations to troops. Schnitzel, hot pretzels and roasted sausages were all available on the front with a sauerkraut slurpy machine in the back with ten unique flavors! It was a real storehouse of convenience. They called it the Circle K-Wagen.

Kurt Feltenberger

2y↑12

Regarding the engines used, I'm thinking that they would have used some sort of marine engine.

Edward Fletcher

Definitely !

Ronin

2y↑8

If the war had continued for another year, we might have seen these monstrosities facing off against Mark VIIIs.

TBBunnyWoar

2y↑9

Great video! you could have had some metric units for the length of the thing though, but otherwise it was really interesting

Qiāng HuángShā

2y↑3

you can tell just by the blueprints that the engines used are of the same model used in SM U-5 series U-boats. this would make sense as these were very out of date by this point in the war, and these engines would have been less desirable for naval use, as newer engines could top 1000hp by this time. anyways, this is a twin engine system. 2-shaft kerosene burning daimler engines with integrated twin electric engines and 11 onboard batteries. this system delivers 600-650 hp depending on operation and instillation. these were pre-war engines, which date to 1908.

DragonSword

2y↑3

Thanks for the video Cone! My only wonder is did they actually test drive this afv before? I mean that the track design looks like it's undrivable past just forward and backwards. Too long and too thin?

TGC

2y↑21

The Father of Heavy Tanks.

Võ Minh Gia Trí

2y↑3

The Mark 1 and other variants are Heavy tanks

Nikola piston

2y↑12

Its a superheavy

Coffee009

2y↑3

WW1 tanks have some of the coolest looking designs

Sam Adams

2y↑1

It's always amazing the speed of technological advancement and industrial throughput war brings. WWII and to a lesser but still impressive extent, WWI, had so many projects that were rapidly adopted. The fact something as monumental as the K-Wagen was nearly completed is amazing.

andrew woodhead

2y↑2

Isn't it amazing that even this super secret and all but unknown project has produced two clear photographs, yet, in spite of supposedly originating two decades later and in an era when cameras were far more common and developed , the so called Japanese ''OI'' tank has produced not a single image for posterity ?! Strange.... .

Cool Pilot

I’ve loved this tank for years it’s one of my favorites and I’m so glad you made a video on it

Lightman0359

2y↑6

Did you include Naval engines in your search? I remember seeing plans for a "landkreuzer" that used literal battle cruiser turrets and was powered by 4 submarine diesel engines

Dawson Reum

@snaplet games ya, Germany would have had to had engines that could have had a chance at moving these monsters, and naval engines probably would have been the only ones available, what about a torpedoe boat engine? Would that be smaller than a u boat? If so then those would be able to provide power to a k-wagen.

snaplet games

2y↑4

@Watcher Zero That is not even close to correct, Otherwise their size would make them utterly useless even for submarines. Usually they'd be about as tall as a person, and weighed tens of tons, not hundreds. SM U94, Was powered by two 1,183 HP engines, For a total of 2,367 HP, and the SUBMARINE was 8.25 meters tall, which would've meant that the engines would be larger than the sub, which also was also only about 825t.

Lightman0359

@Watcher Zero that would explain their proposed use in the 1000+ ton landkreuzer design.

Watcher Zero

Submarine engines were two storeys tall and weighed hundreds of tonnes.

MrLes Berg

2y↑2

What do I think of this design? I think I'd love to scrap a huge dozer and build a full scale replica out of steel and plywood.

Alexander Schmitz

Great video, Ive seen those old photos of this and wondered what it was. The amount of steel used in this thing, always intrigued me and how they would get it moving

Michel Martens

2y↑7

hey you should do a video on the history of antitank rifles up to their obsolesence

Charles Larson

Just one question:
When can either Dragon, Takom, or Das Werk be expected to come out with a 1/35 scale kit of this beast?

Sharpshots

Cone, have you considered that the k-wagen might use uboat (or naval vessel) engines. I recall there was another vehicle that did the same thing (using of a naval vessel engine)

Erick Rapa

2y↑14

I'm gonna love this episode!

Kaiser Von Bahr

It used the same inter-crew communication as the A7V with a light above each gunner station that could be toggled by the commander

John Smith

It just baffles me how people could imagine that such a large tank could be used.

milcoll73

wouldve been interesting to see what the results of this beast in combat was.

Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus

2y↑1

all the WW1 tanks i can think of off the top of my head are the K-Wagen, A7V, Mk I - IV, Tadpole tank, St Chamond, Ft-17 and Fiat 2000.

Gabriel Daughenbaugh

hey coneofarc! Im glad to see that someone other than me appreciates the lesser know tanks of history!

Modern Xenophon

Hey, ConeOfArc, who does the 3D models for your videos, and what software do they use? They are really good.

Orion The Raptor

2y↑2

I think if one got sent into the field it’d get crippled from mud build up in the tracks and then get pounded into fragments by artillery that or have a transmission failure

RonaldoZ1024

Hey Cone! I was about to ask you pictures the Tortuga on your old Intro video. Have you ever made a video about it?

As a Venezuelan I'd love to see that tank covered by you. Even if it's just an armored Ford F-150. But you can't deny the half egg, Darth Vader like hull looks weird.

zoie sulak

Interesting, I never heard about the wolf attack in ww1, sounds terrifying

Hanif Ong

2y↑25

The AdMech called, they want their holy artifact back

Brass Tank

Nicely made video. It’s good to see something tackling the K-Wagen, as well as mentioning the other super heavy projects going on at the time. While I hadn’t heard of the Trench Destroyer before, I do know there was a British plan called the Flying Elephant. The best way I can describe it is a gigantic bread box or loaf of bread with guns sticking out and fat tracks on the bottom. Iirc it was supposed to have around 6, 8, or more guns; machine guns and cannons. This is all I know about it; I think it was abandoned before the machine left the drawing board.

There’s another unique machine that actually did reach production after WWI, the French Char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C. 10 were built. However, they never really saw combat, and all have tragically been lost to time. It went through a bunch of unique retrofits in the period between both World Wars. I think it’s worthy of a video of its own.

Martin Nicolas Gumbir

2y↑2

In one of my historical magazin is an article about "Kaiser's tank dreams" with a parameter tabele wich says that engine power of K-Wagen is 960kW.

von Hindenburg

2y↑1

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steadfastJedi

I remember this super heavy tank being featured as a boss in the games Toy Soldiers and Toy Soldiers: War Chest in the levels titled "The Kaiser's Battle". The devs took the super heaviness to the max by making the K-Wagen way bigger than it was historically. https://youtu.be/Tlu5H0YhT1Y?t=942

jsplicer9

I might have to update my Char 2C article on the Tank Encyclopedia, your video shows the K-Wagen could possibly be considered a production vehicle and therefore surpassing the dimensions of the 2C

Technotuna

Knowing that a photo of one of these exists is staggering, it definitely sounds like the kind of crazy though experiment and wishful thinking that went on in late war minds. But holy damn the idea that one of these was actually built and ready for fielding is insane.

Roman Sternberg

Given the weight, inadequate engine power, dubious suspension and minimal ground clearance, I can't imagine that this thing wouldn't have gotten mired almost immediately.

Macrochenia

2y↑7

This thing looks less like a tank and more like the boss from a side-scrolling shooter video game where you're forced to shoot each of its guns off and then it opens up to reveal that it can fire lasers from its engine.

David Thomas

2y↑1

I wonder if it would possible for someone to construct a boilerplate reconstruction some day and put it in the tank museum, like their reconstructed MK IV?

Scooter George

2y↑1

When the battleship ruled the seas, it seems only natural that armies would want a land battleship.

Skott62

Like you said. Initially might cause some panic but a couple well placed artillery would render it useless.

Chris Perrien

2y↑3

The model picture is wrong, it could not have a front machine gun in front of the tread like that. And the front side machine gun locations are in doubt too, because of the bogies for the tracks.

Matt Williams

I’ve always been fascinated at the picture of the 2 in the factory, but that thing looks like it would high center about 10 feet into no mans land.

Boras Raven

2y↑4

I really hope policies have changed in modern times regarding the destruction of captured vehicles… so much history lost to a junk yard it’s just sad…

Alexander1485

2y↑1

you mean politics

amaxwell7333

What I thought of the tank. It looks very intimidating but not very functional. As it looks like they tried to put guns in every direction instead of having just one that rotates on the top. Also the guns don't look like they'd move very much to Target enemies. It's very neat looking but not very practical.

A Cole

Artillery could take this out but they had to be able to have some spotting for them. If your tank and infantry rout the enemy artillery barrages will work but be a lot less effective.

Ken Bell

2y↑1

Did you consider uboat engines? That would explain much of the size and weight.

teamidris

My track machine knowledge says it couldn’t turn in deep mud or when driving over a hollow. I mean literally couldn’t turn, no chance, no hope, strait forward or backwards. I’m also doubting the track rollers in the middle could take the weight for any length of time with the oils and metals available. *Interesting that the rear sprocket is full hull size.

Saviliana

Could be steam boilers form some small shunting locomotive, the K-wagen would be powered by steam train engine instead.

DevilSigh

2y↑1

German Army: "How large should the K-Wagen be?"

Joseph Vollmer: "Yes"

Joe Taylor

With it's length and relatively narrow width of Hull between the tracks, I think this would prove almost unsteerable in anything but ideal conditions. Very ill-conceived.

David Kübitz

As far as i know, the planned engines where Aviation engines from Daimler. But the best known and build engines at that time where from BMW who where able to pump out 226 HP each. But a V8 engine was planned by Mercedes at the end of the war.

Your FBI agent

2y↑4

“Out of your friends which are you?
Maus: CRAZY ASS
Porsche Tiger: TRANSMISSION FREAK
E100: Alien sounds
Tiger 1: THE FIGHTER

harleymark

Its my understanding the engine used for this tank was a MWM RS34.5S six-cylinder four-stroke diesel. It was originally designed for ships and u-boats.

Mark James

Very kool video…as you said odds are it would have been luck to just get it to the front.. in trench warfare the inner track design would have caused it to get stuck or even having its tracks suspended. But very interesting to see their take on a monster tank at that time.. great work

CommissarTommy22

2y↑1

Wouldn't have won them the war, but it would have been interesting to see grainy film footage of this thing on the move.

Treyoplol

Wait, this tank is even bigger than the Tog 2, impressive

Harrison Fross

2y↑1

The more a I learn about the state of Trench Warfare during the first world war, the more I realize it's sort of pointless to assess contemporary tanks in terms of their ability to breach the trenches.

No tank, however ambitious, within the constraints of the time could facilitate a meaningful breakthrough.

Naamã dos Santos Silva

2y↑14

Scrapping these was a mistake.The scrap was more useful for the germans than they could ever be.The Allies should have forced germany to build and use hundreds of K-Wagens,so their tank budget would be crippled.

von Hindenburg

2y↑1

So far as I remember they begged the allies to at least allow them a test ride ... the request got denied.

Aymon FOXC

They probably would scrapped them after the Naxis took over and had a huge material bonus as a result...

Or maybe they would have modernised them and invaded Poland with them.

Kellen

That looks like a very very early target for early bomber biplane tests at minimal risk

Stephen Gardiner

2y↑1

If this waddling land whale were to be used as a "breakthrough" weapon, a good team with a French 75 or British 18 pounder would have this thing looking like a swiss cheese in no time.

PsychoLucario

its also possible that they intended a 325 hp engine using a detuned 500 hp engine which I can assume was from their U-Boats since they're going to need torque over raw HP

Efan Lemon

For context, this tank would've been 3 metres longer than the TOG 2

Ditmar Van Belle

I'm thinking it wouldn't have taken long to come up with a field cannon that could penetrate that armour. Always easier to destroy than to build. Would have turned into glorified pillboxes in no time.

Lanto

The engines were apparently Daimler-Benz v6 water-cooled aero engines with 650hp each

bruh sound effect

The engine in the photo at 7:17 looks like v12 and not a v6 like you talked about and at 5:56 by looking at the crankshaft looks like v8 to me

Brad Maddox

The largest tank ever made is the char 2c french tank plz do a video on it also there was 10 char 2c made a lot more than the K wagen.

Earl Collinsworth

Really impractical! >1 How would it cross rivers? The bridges in most of the fronter would just crumble under its weight! 2> The thing would sink into the mud in winter!

Jos Ron

Beautiful exterior design.

Pprokop87

What about naval engines? At that time navy had started to use liquid fuel powerplants. Some had a oil heated boilers, other had diesel style closed combustiom.

Irontricky14

I love your videos and I was wondering if you could do a cursed by design for the Object 297 e

James Luke

Totally unusable yet extremely intriguing.

Wischmopps

4:40 - one says ball-bearings and the other train wagon factory. And even in the dark, old ages of 193x we measured in metres not fingernails

Vortagh

2y↑1

The engines were to be two submarine engines. There had been several diesel engines around 400 - 1200 hp in services in the Kaiserliche Marine. In addition, the constant back and forth of 6 and 8 cylinder in documentation about the K-Wagen, makes me believe that they might have planned of taking one of the 800-900HP 8-cylinder diesels and shortening it. Thus producing something that ran 6 cylinders with something close to those 650HP. They might have also considered some sort of Körting paraffin-engine, although I am not aware of a model that fits that power rating. Those engines were very very fuel inefficient though.

(MAN and Körting built most of the submarine engines, with Körting building paraffin powered ones at first, diesels later. Other manufacturers were - amongst others - AEG, Daimler, Benz & Cie., Deutz, Junkers and Krupp. But MAN and Körting were the really big two)

Regarding weight, judging by MAN's surprisingly low kg to hp ratio, the engines used, would have weighted something around 14 tons each, or 28 tons (this is metric tons), probably less. Seeing how that number is from stuff built in 1912, it is quite likely that the weight would have most likely turned out a bit better than that value in later developments. For comparison, the last engine that MAN developed, in 1917, was a ten cylinder engine with 3000hp that still fit in a submarine. Although most submarines of the mid to late war, ran diesel engines of around 1200 - 1500hp.

To be honest very few people care about WW1 engines and even fewer care about German WW1 engines, so it's not surprising you didn't find much. As a native German speaker, it's a bit easier, but material is still scarce.

Leading Auctions

It looked like it could actually have changed the war..

Do you believe this would have burst through the front lines like butter?

BladeRicsi

I think that all the super heavy/extreme big/highly expensive war machines are "one trick ponies". All of them are defeated from a light/cheap/cleverly designed counterpart.