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The K5 was the result of a crash program launched in the 1930s to develop a force of railway guns to support the Wehrmacht by 1939. K5 development began in 1934 with first testing following in 1936 at Darlowo (German: Schießplatz Rügenwalde-Bad ) in the former Farther Pomerania at the South coast of the Baltic Sea .
German World War II 280 mm Krupp K5 railway gun, nicknamed "Leopold" and "Anzio Annie". The United States Army Ordnance Training Support Facility (formerly known as the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center and U.S. Army Ordnance Museum) artifacts are used to train and educate logistic soldiers.
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 .
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 ...
8-inch gun M1888; 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun; 12-inch coast defense mortar; 14-inch/50-caliber railway gun; 14-inch M1920 railway gun; 15 cm K (E) 17 cm K (E) 20.3 cm K (E) 24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E) 24 cm Theodor Kanone (E) 28 cm schwere Bruno Kanone (E) 38 cm Siegfried K (E) 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905; 120 mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 ...
The 20.3 cm Kanone (E - Eisenbahnlafette (railroad mount)) was a German railroad gun used on coast-defense duties in Occupied France and Belgium during World War II.Eight guns were transferred from the Navy's stocks after having become redundant with the loss and sale of several Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers and were delivered in 1941 and 1942.
The first gun was retrospectively called the K 12 V (E). They spent the war assigned to Artillerie-Batterie 701 (E) along the Channel coast. The British recovered shell fragments near Rainham, Kent , 88 kilometres (55 mi) from the nearest point on the French coast.
Railway guns (4 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Railway weapons" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.