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The train carrying the gun was of 25 cars, a total length of 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi). The gun reached the Perekop Isthmus in early March 1942, where it was held until early April. The Germans built a special railway spur line to the Simferopol-Sevastopol railway 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of the target. At the end of the spur, they built four ...
1 made; used in combat; largest cannon in history by projectile weight; none survive 800 Dora: Railway gun 1942 Nazi Germany: Krupp 1 made (sister gun to Schwerer Gustav); unknown if used in combat; none survive 610 [24] [25] Mortier monstre: Mortar 1832 Belgium: Henri-Joseph Paixhans: 2 made; used in combat; at least 1 survives 600 (later, 540 ...
The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) [6] was a British coastal defense gun and is the world's largest black powder cannon. It was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong.
Mons Meg is a medieval bombard in the collection of the Royal Armouries, on loan to Historic Environment Scotland and located at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. [1] It has a barrel diameter of 20 inches (510 mm), making it one of the largest cannons in the world by calibre.
The transport wagons were initially intended to be towed by the Mack NO 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton heavy truck, but it was found that the trucks had problems on soft ground due to their high ground pressure. The intended replacement was the tracked M6 tractor, which was explicitly designed for towing the 8-inch gun and 240 mm howitzer. This vehicle was ...
It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell. The gun was a scaled-up version of the BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun and was developed to equip the "large light cruiser" (a form of battlecruiser) Furious ...
The largest (800 mm) known German artillery weapons were hauled on 25 railway cars and required three weeks to put in firing position, but had a longer range of 47 km (29 mi) compared to the 9.7 km (6.0 mi) of Little David. [2] Little David was by calibre one of the largest artillery pieces ever produced, although Dora fired a heavier shell.
The Dardanelles Gun is a similar super-sized cannon that was built in 1464 by the Turkish military engineer Munir Ali and modelled after the cannon built by Orban.. The Basilic, [1] or The Ottoman Cannon was a very large-calibre cannon designed by Orban, a cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at a time when cannons were still new.