The Dark Nazi Weapon That Crawled Toward Its Victims - The Goliath

It looked like a toy tank.
Tiny, slow, and dragging a cable behind it.
But the Goliath SdKfz. 302/303 was one of the world’s first remotely controlled weapons — a miniature tracked demolition carrier designed to crawl into enemy positions and turn itself into an explosive nightmare.

Born from Germany’s desperation to break minefields, bunkers, and tank obstacles without sacrificing men, the Goliath was a bold idea trapped in 1940s technology.
It carried up to 60kg of explosives, could be guided from hundreds of meters away, and became the crude ancestor of today’s UGVs, battlefield robots, and suicide drones.

It failed more than it succeeded — but it started a revolution.
A wired, clumsy, early look at a future where machines do the dying instead of soldiers.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - The First Remote-Controlled Bomb — Germany’s Tiny Tank
00:36 - Why the Wehrmacht Built a Robot Mine
01:00 - Inside the Machine — How the Goliath Actually Worked
02:18 - The Battlefield Test — Successes and Failures in Combat
03:26 - How Allied Troops Stopped It
05:43 - The Legacy — The Crude Ancestor of Modern Combat Robots