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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 ...
~27 made; used in combat; main guns of battleships Yamato and Musashi; the largest ever ship-installed gun by caliber; none survives 457.2 BL 18 inch railway howitzer: Railway howitzer: 1920 United Kingdom: Elswick Ordnance Company: 5 made; never used in combat; one survives 457.2 BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun: Naval gun: 1916 United Kingdom
The largest (800 mm) known German artillery weapons were hauled on 25 railway cars and required three weeks to put in firing position, but had a longer range of 47 km (29 mi) compared to the 9.7 km (6.0 mi) of Little David. [2] Little David was by calibre one of the largest artillery pieces ever produced, although Dora fired a heavier shell.
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 ...
20 mm akan m/40 (Bofors 20 mm automatic gun L/70 model 1940) Sweden: World War II - Cold War 20 mm (0.79 in) 20 mm akan m/45 (Bofors 20 mm automatic gun L/70 model 1945) Sweden: Cold war 25 mm (0.98 in) 25 mm akan m/32 (Bofors 25 mm automatic gun L/64 model 1932) Sweden: Interwar - Cold war 25 mm (0.98 in) 1-inch Nordenfelt gun United Kingdom
The powder chamber itself is made from small pieces of iron hammer-welded together to make a solid wrought-iron forging. [5] Mons Meg has a diameter of 19 inches (480 mm), one of the largest ever built, [6] weighs 15,366 pounds (6,970 kg) [7] and is 13 feet (4.0 m) in length. [8]
Built from 1999 to 2005, it was the largest SUV Ford had made to that point. Weighing in at nearly 4 tons and stretching close to 20 feet, it was somehow an even larger version of the F-250 Super ...
The M-Gerät had a 42 cm (17 in) calibre barrel, making it one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded. The M-Gerät designed in 1911 as an iteration of earlier super-heavy German siege guns intended to break modern fortresses in France and Belgium and entered production in 1912. Test firing began in early 1914 and the gun was estimated to ...