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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 Empire: World War I: 238 24 cm SK L/40 "Theodor Karl" German ...
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 .
In 1917 the Allies were losing an artillery duel against heavy German guns along the Flanders coast in Belgium, and the important French Channel port of Dunkirk was being shelled by 38 cm German guns sited in Belgium at a range of over 24 miles (39 km). There was also a need for the Allies to bombard strategic targets in the German rear areas ...
World War I railway artillery of France (25 P) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 12:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
At least two of these weapons were operated by the 53rd Coast Artillery Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps in France during World War I (almost all US Army-manned heavy and railway artillery in that war was operated by Coast Artillery units). The US Army built a one-off experimental 16-inch (406 mm) railway howitzer M1918 with some influence from ...
The Schneider-Ansaldo guns were chosen for conversion to railway guns. The guns used interrupted screw breeches and fired separate loading bagged charges and projectiles. It fired high explosive shells weighing 730 and 876 kg (1,609 and 1,931 lb) to ranges of 33.6 and 30 km (20.9 and 18.6 mi) respectively.
Henry W. Miller, Railway Artillery: A Report on the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, etc. of Railway Artillery, United States Government Printing Office, 1921; Henry W. Miller, The Paris Gun: The Bombardment of Paris by the German Long Range Guns and the Great German Offensive of 1918, Jonathan Cape, Harrison Smith, New York, 1930
The weapon would have a weight of over 1,000 tonnes (1,100 short tons). The size and weight meant that to be at all movable it would need to be supported on twin sets of railway tracks. The railway tracks were specifically engineered to accommodate the immense weight and size of Schwerer Gustav. Constructed with reinforced steel, these tracks ...