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A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval artillery, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially designed railway wagon. Many countries have built railway guns, but the best-known are the large Krupp -built pieces used by Germany in World War I and World War II .
8-inch M1888 gun United States: World War I, World War II: 203 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun (aka M3A2) United States: World War II: 209.3 21 cm SK "Peter Adalbert" German Empire: World War I: 210 21 cm K12 (E) Nazi Germany: World War II 233 BL 9.2 inch Railway Gun United Kingdom: World War I, World War II: 238 24 cm SK L/30 "Theodor Otto" German ...
"Navy 14 Inch Railway Guns in France, 1918" original film of 14 inch railroad naval cannon in action in World War I. "Battleships on Wheels" Popular Science Monthly , January 1928, pp. 16–18, 123–125, author was the US Navy admiral in charge of World War I 14-inch naval railroad cannon program.
Railway guns are large artillery pieces, usually naval guns, mounted on rail tracks for mobility on land. See the railway gun article for more detail.
Range approx 70 km. Version E was a modified unit to fit on railroad flatcars to produce a mobile Flak radar system. Version G had the 2.4-meter antenna and electronics from a Freya installed. Version G had the 2.4-meter antenna and electronics from a Freya installed.
In 1944, the US Army contracted [7] for an electronic "computer with guns, a tracking radar, plotting boards and communications equipment" (M33C & M33D models used different subassemblies for 90 & 120 mm gun/ammunition ballistics.) [3] The "trial model predecessor" (T-33) was used as late as 1953, [8] and the production M33 (each $383,000 in 1954 dollars) [9] had been deployed in 1950. [10]
The 21 cm Kanone 12 in Eisenbahnlafette (21 cm K 12 (E)) was a large German railroad gun used in the Second World War and deployed to fire on England from the English Channel coast in occupied France.
Railway guns (4 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Railway weapons" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.