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The nickname "Big Bertha" appeared early in the war, when German soldiers named the guns Dicke Berta at the Battle of Liège, a reference to Bertha Krupp, who had inherited the Krupp works from her father. The name spread to German newspapers and then to Allied troops as "Big Bertha" and became slang for all heavy German artillery, but ...
Complementing the 16-in/50 caliber Mark 7 gun was a fire control computer, the Ford Instrument Company Mark 8 Range Keeper. This analog computer was used to direct the fire from the battleship's big guns, taking into account factors including the speed of the targeted ship, the projectile's travel time, and air resistance.
Scale model of a Paris Gun on its fixed mounting, Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz. The Paris Gun (German: Paris-Geschütz / Pariser Kanone) was a type of German long-range siege gun, several of which were used to bombard Paris during World War I. They were in service from March to August 1918.
Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun) Empire of Japan.
Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60 Sweden: Cold War 57 mm (2.2 in) Bofors 57 mm Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun L/60 Sweden: Cold War 57 mm (2.2 in) Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 Sweden: Cold War - Modern 65 mm (2.6 in) Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 France: World War I - World War II 66 mm (2.6 in) Škoda 7 cm guns Austria-Hungary
A North Korean howitzer has been reported on Russia's front lines following November sightings of a shipment of two M1989 Koksan self-propelled big guns as Pyongyang entered the war against Ukraine.
The gun was fitted with the spare barrel and the original was sent back to Krupp's factory in Essen for relining. [17] The gun was then dismantled and moved to the northern part of the Eastern Front, where an attack was planned on Leningrad. The gun was placed 30 km (18.6 mi) from the city near the railway station of Taytsy. The gun was fully ...
In the post-war era, the development of extremely overpowered artillery was gradually abandoned in favour of missile technology, while heavy guns are still demanded by various arms of the service. The list includes only cannons that were actually built, that is, cannons that existed only as concepts, ideas, proposals, plans, drawings or ...