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Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line , the strongest fortifications in existence at the time.
Schwerer Gustav: Railway gun: 1941 Nazi Germany: Krupp: 1 made; used in combat; sister gun to Dora; none survive 800 Dora: Railway gun: 1942 Nazi Germany: Krupp: 1 made; unknown if used in combat (that is, unknown if fired in anger); sister gun to Schwerer Gustav; none survive 610 [23] [24] Mortier monstre: Mortar: 1832 Belgium: Henri-Joseph ...
The Schwerer Gustav fired a 7-tonne projectile up to 37 km (23 mi) and was designed for use against heavily fortified targets. The main armament could have been mounted without a rotating turret. Such a configuration would have allowed the P. 1500 to operate in a similar manner to the original 800 mm railroad gun and Karl 600 mm self-propelled ...
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 ...
Schwerer Gustav (Heavy Gustav) – an 800mm railway gun, the largest artillery piece ever used in warfare. V-3 cannon "Hochdruckpumpe" – "High Pressure Pump", a large-calibre gun. Landkreuzer P. 1500 "Monster" – a proposed super-heavy self-propelled gun, weighing 1500 metric tons and armed with the 800mm Schwerer Gustav/Dora gun.
Schwerer Gustav - a massive 1,350 ton artillery train. it had 80 cm 7,100 kg with 250 kg explosive filling ... machine-gun wagon ( 1 x 36M 37mm AT gun, 1 x 36M 20mm ...
Krupp's K5 series were consistent in mounting a 21.5-metre-long (71 ft) gun barrel in a fixed mounting with only vertical elevation of the weapon. This gondola was then mounted on a pair of 12-wheel bogies designed to be operated on commercial and military rails built to German standards.
This is a list of the world's largest machines, both static and movable in history. ... Schwerer Gustav: Railway gun: 47.3 m (155 ft 2 in) [11] 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)