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 …

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 …

The Schwarz chest plate gun was a prototype clandestine 8 barrel volley gun installed in a body armour vest. It was designed to be worn under a jacket and fired when the user raises hands up, actuates firing by pulling strings that fire the weapon.

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.

Schwerer Gustav or Hitler’s giant gun was a fearsome weapon of war. A distinctive feature of artillery of the Second World War were cannons of every increasing size and caliber. One other such...

2015年5月6日 · The new weapon was a gun about 12 meters high, 47 meters long, weighing 1,350 tonnes and was firing 10 tonnes shells through a 30 meters long pipe. 22 people could sit aligned on the barrel of the gun. The impressive weapon became known as the “Great Gustav”.

2021年5月8日 · Such is the case of the Schwerer Gustav railway gun built in Nazi Germany in the early years of the war. It was the single biggest gun mankind has ever created, capable of ranges and destruction on a scale never seen before or since. Fortunately for the rest of the world, the German Army's super gun was not only their biggest engineering marvel ...

2023年10月29日 · There are guns, there are really big guns, and then there's the Schwerer Gustav. Before we dive into the specifics of this bigger-than-life gun, we need to know why Hitler wanted it built....

2024年1月8日 · Designed to attack Japanese bunkers at the end of WWII, this mortar was the largest in the world but never saw combat, as Japan surrendered before its deployment. Hitler initiated the creation of Schwerer Gustav before WWII started, envisioning it as a tool for the German Army to break through the Maginot Line during the invasion of France.

Developed by German arms designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose in around 1900, and used extensively during WW1 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Schwarzlose M.07 was a heavy, belt fed water–cooled machine gun, reliant on a pure blowback mechanism with no …