German Railway Gun That Shelled Britain Youtube Patreon page: patreon theironarmeniandiscord: discordapp invite vd9pst8big shout out to maddendd for making the thumbnail for the. In today's video, we take a look at the absolute size of the schwerer gustav, germany's most powerful railway gunplease subscribe for morethis video falls un.
Worldтащs Biggest Most Powerful юааgunюаб Ever Built Heavy Gustav юааrailwayюаб (american) top german inventions reaction german railway gun that shelled britaintoday i will be reacting to german railway gun that shelled britain.origin. Schwerer gustav: the biggest gun in the world. by the time the schwerer gustav was complete at the end of 1941 — it cost 10 million marks to build — it was more like a small building than a gun. from the ground up the schwerer gustav was almost four stories tall. the weapon weighed 1,490 tons, and it was 20 feet wide and a 140 feet long. Built by german steelmakers krupp, k5 railway guns were positioned in northern france from 1940 onwards originally to provide fire support for operation sealion (the german invasion of britain) and later to fire 28cm shells across the english channel to dover. the gun barrel itself is over 25 metres long with each shell weighing over 240kg (530lb). Krupp 's k5 series were consistent in mounting a 21.5 metre long (71 ft) gun barrel in a fixed mounting with only vertical elevation of the weapon. this gondola was then mounted on a pair of 12 wheel bogies designed to be operated on commercial and military rails built to german standards. this mounting permitted only two degrees of horizontal.
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