Super-heavy tanks are massive tanks, concepts of which led to gargantuan vehicles rivaling naval warships.
By definition, the Schwerer Gustav would have qualified as a landship, albeit one limited to rails. The gun's massive size required its own diesel-powered generator, a special railway track and an oversized crew of 2,750 (250 to assemble and fire the gun in 3 days and 2,500 to lay the tracks). With a length of 47.3 meters (155 feet, 2 inches), a width of 7.1 meters (23 feet, 4 inches) and a height of 11.6 meters (38 feet, 1 inch), the Schwerer Gustav weighed 1,350 tonnes. It was the largest caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat and, in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. Schwerer Gustav was a German super heavy railway gun developed in the late 1930s. Model of Dora, sister railway gun of Schwerer Gustav. While the Mark 1 and later variations were smaller than the initial behemoths engineers envisioned, they still used naval guns, including the QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss, later shortened to the QF 6-pounder guns. The constant revision eventually led to the creation of the first tank. However, even at a revised weight, 300 tons was considered impractical given the technology present, but the influence of the big wheel would persist in the "creeping grip" tracks of the first tanks, which were wrapped around the entire body of the machine. Six of these 'Big Wheel' landships were eventually commissioned. The first conceptual tank prototype was for a 300-ton vehicle that would be made by suspending a "sort of Crystal Palace body" between three enormous wheels, allegedly inspired by the Great Wheel at Earls Court in London. As such, the landship project proposed a smaller vehicle. The concept of a 1,000-ton armored, fighting machine on land quickly became too impractical and too costly for it to be realistically conceived. The tank was originally referred to as the landship, owing to the continuous development from the Landship Committee.
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