'Vengeance Weapon 3') was a German World War II large-caliber gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile. Two full-size guns were built in the underground Fortress of Mimoyecques in northern France and permanently aimed at London , but they were rendered unusable by ...

2020年11月5日 · Less known is the V3—which the Nazis also called the “London Cannon”—a massive, multi-charge gun designed to shoot a 215-pound shell nearly 100 miles. Adolf Hitler hoped it would blast the British capital to smithereens. A ballistics engineer named August Coenders sold the concept of a super cannon to the Führer in 1942.

V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities.

2015年4月21日 · The V3 was the natural development from the V1 and V2 weapons that had terrorised London in 1944 – a weapon for revenge (‘Vergeltungswaffen’). The V3 was never fired at London though it was used in a very minor way in the Battle of the Bulge.

2015年10月14日 · The V-3 gun, or Vergeltungswaffe 3 was one of Germany’s wonder weapons developed to change the aggravating tide of war. This Nazi supergun was designed

2022年6月6日 · In 1943, Hitler and his Nazi forces were on the back foot. It was the first time since the beginning of the World War II that Hitler was on the back foot. The Fuhrer was rattled as Allied bombs were devastating his cities in Germany. To switch the tides of the war, Hitler proposed a V3 supergun, or a super cannon.

German gun-launched missile. The V-3 Hochdruckpumpe (aka HDP, 'Fleissiges Lieschen'; 'Tausend Fussler') was a supergun designed by Saar Roechling during World War II. The 140 m long cannon was capable of delivering a 140 kg shell over a 165 km range.

2017年1月9日 · Nazi Germany famously used V-1 cruise missile and V-2 ballistic missile “Vengeance Weapons” to bomb London in retaliation for the Allies’ strategic bombing campaign of Germany.

When WWII started and France fell to the Germans in 1940, Hitler's troops raided the archive and the plans fell into the hands of August Cönders, a German weapons designer. He was intrigued with multi-chamber design and felt it might be just the mechanism he needed to build a gun that could launch a shell an unheard of distance.

The V-3 (Vergeltungswaffe 3, "Retribution Weapon 3") was a German World War II large-calibre gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile.