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The train carrying the gun was of 25 cars, a total length of 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi). The gun reached the Perekop Isthmus in early March 1942, where it was held until early April. The Germans built a special railway spur line to the Simferopol-Sevastopol railway 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of the target. At the end of the spur, they built four ...
Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm). This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being practically ...
The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) [6] was a British coastal defense gun and is the world's largest black powder cannon. It was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong.
283 mm (11.1 in) 28 cm SK L/40 gun German Empire: World War I - World War II 283 mm (11.1 in) 28 cm SK L/50 gun German Empire: World War I - World War II 283 mm (11.1 in) 28 cm SK C/28 naval gun Nazi Germany: World War II 283 mm (11.1 in) 28 cm SK C/34 naval gun Nazi Germany: World War II 305 mm (12.0 in) RML 12 inch 25 ton gun
Mons Meg is a medieval bombard in the collection of the Royal Armouries, on loan to Historic Environment Scotland and located at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. [1] It has a barrel diameter of 20 inches (510 mm), making it one of the largest cannons in the world by calibre.
It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell. The gun was a scaled-up version of the BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun and was developed to equip the "large light cruiser" (a form of battlecruiser) Furious ...
The gun was capable of firing a 106-kilogram (234 lb) [1]: 120 shell to a range of 130 kilometres (81 mi) and a maximum altitude of 42.3 km (26.3 mi) [1]: 120 —the greatest height reached by a human-made projectile until the first successful V-2 flight test in October 1942.
The 240 mm howitzer M1, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", [1] was a towed howitzer used by the United States Army.The 240 mm M1 was designed to replace the World War I era 240 mm howitzer M1918, which was based on a 1911 French design and was outdated by World War II.