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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.
The largest gun in world history, Germany's Schwerer Gustav railway gun was 150 feet long, weighed 1,500 tons, and fired the biggest artillery shells of World War II. The monstrous Schwerer Gustav was deployed in the Soviet Union during the Battle of Sevastopol.
The Gustav Gun, (properly known as the Schwerer Gustav gun), was a siege gun developed in preparation for World War 2 and is the largest caliber rifled weapon to see combat in the history of artillery. The Gustav is also notable for firing the heaviest shell of any artillery piece.
Schwerer Gustav or Hitler’s giant gun was a fearsome weapon of war. A distinctive feature of artillery of the Second World War were cannons of every increasing size and caliber.
The new weapon was a gun about 12 meters high, 47 meters long, weighing 1,350 tonnes and was firing 10 tonnes shells through a 30 meters long pipe. 22 people could sit aligned on the barrel of the gun. The impressive weapon became known as the “Great Gustav”.
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Germany's gigantic Schwerer Gustav railway gun was the single largest weapon ever built and deployed in a combat setting.