Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in …

2024年4月19日 · The largest gun in world history, Germany's Schwerer Gustav railway gun was 150 feet long, weighed 1,500 tons, and fired the biggest artillery shells of World War II. The monstrous Schwerer Gustav was deployed in the Soviet Union during the Battle of Sevastopol.

2020年2月13日 · The Gustav Gun, (properly known as the Schwerer Gustav gun), was a siege gun developed in preparation for World War 2 and is the largest caliber rifled weapon to see combat in the history of artillery. The Gustav is also notable for firing the heaviest shell of …

2023年11月12日 · At 800 millimeters, the Schwerer Gustav railway gun was the largest artillery of that kind ever built. It had an operational life of only 13 days, a period in which it fired only 300 shots. It required 25 rail cars and 2,000 support men to move, and it took more than six weeks to get it into position to start firing.

2024年1月8日 · Schwerer Gustav, stood as a formidable weapon of war. A hallmark of Second World War artillery was the development of increasingly large and high-caliber cannons. The 36-inch (914 mm) Little David, built for the American army, was another such weapon.

Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustaf, or Great Gustaf) and Dora were the names of two German 80 cm K (E) railway guns. They were developed in the late 1930s by Krupp as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications then in existence.

2021年7月25日 · Decades of history led up to the Heavy Gustav — successively larger and heavier railway guns leading to the biggest of them all. The Confederacy deployed the world’s first railway gun...

Although termed a railway-gun, the sheer size of Gustav meant that it actually traveled in sections to meet the loading gauge on German railways. Obviously it could not be transported in one piece. The gun itself was broken down into five units; breech ring and block, the barrel in two halves, the barrel jacket, the cradle and the trunnions.

2017年5月20日 · The Krupp 80 cm Kanone (E) Schwerer Gustav / Dora was a huge railway gun developed for a need that ultimately did not exist. Although impractical, the German WWII weapon was a feat of engineering.

2018年11月19日 · Adolf Hitler (second from right) and Albert Speer (right) inspecting the 800 mm Gustav railway gun in the year 1943. Krupp engineer Erich Müller calculated that to punch through seven meters of reinforced concrete or one full meter of steel armor plate, they would require a gun with massive dimensions.