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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 .
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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 ...
The Old North Church makes an appearance in the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 4, serving as the headquarters for one of the game's main four factions, the Railroad. It became their headquarters after their old base of operations, a pre-war bunker used by the government called the Switchboard, was raided by the Institute.
26.4 km (16.4 mi) [1] The Canon de 274 modèle 87/93 à glissement was a French Railway gun used by the French Army during World War I and World War II . The Germans captured a number after The Fall of France and operated them throughout the war.
The 14-inch M1920 railway gun was the last model railway gun to be deployed by the United States Army.It was an upgrade of the US Navy 14"/50 caliber railway gun.Only four were deployed; two in the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles and two in the Panama Canal Zone, where they could be shifted between the harbor defenses of Cristobal (Atlantic) or Balboa (Pacific).
The completed assembly was designated as the Type 90 240mm railway gun. The gun itself was not, strictly, a Schneider gun. It was designed by FAMH (Saint-Chamond) as part of the French TLP (très longue portée, “very long range”) projects. Approval for the Saint-Chamond long range gun was granted in November 1918 and the gun was tested in ...
The new Mark II gun car developed during 1918 carried the same 14"/50 caliber Mk 4 gun but addressed the problem areas: it dispensed with the armored gun house, with gunners working in the open; the weight was more evenly spread over 20 axles instead of 12; the French system of rolling recoil was adopted, in which the gun was mounted higher to ...