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...

QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss, later shortened to the QF 6-pounder guns. Schwerer Gustav was a German super-heavy railway gun developed in the late 1930s. It...

deployed – seven examples built, six seeing combat 1941–45. Schwerer Gustav (Heavy Gustav) – an 800mm railway gun, the largest artillery piece ever used...

reached with the German Schwerer Gustav gun, a huge 80 cm (31 in) caliber railway gun, built during early World War II. Schwerer Gustav was initially intended...

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several artillery regiments, one of which included the railway gun Schwerer Gustav.[citation needed] Another attack on 17 December was repulsed at the...

bear its weight and its width was too great for existing tunnels. Schwerer Gustav Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster Land battleship T-42 Notes Chamberlain...

self-propelled mortars (Thor, Odin, and one other) and one 800 mm gun (Schwerer Gustav), delivering 1.4 and 7 ton shells, respectively, and capable of destroying...

ships. In the 1930s, Krupp developed two 800 mm railway guns, the Schwerer Gustav and the Dora. These guns were the biggest artillery pieces ever fielded...

cruiser” would have been a self-propelled platform for the 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) gun artillery piece also made by Krupp—the heaviest artillery...

Mortar 1945  United States 1 made; never used in combat; 1 survives 800 Schwerer Gustav Railway gun 1941  Nazi Germany Krupp 1 made; used in combat; largest...

largest-calibre guns ever built, having a larger calibre than both of Germany's Schwerer Gustav and Dora which were 31.5-inch (800 mm) railway guns. The mortar was...

their seat. It was here that the largest artillery piece in the world, Schwerer Gustav, was constructed and tested by Nazi Germany during World War II. The...

northern France. Big Bertha (howitzer) M65 Atomic Annie gun Paris Gun Schwerer Gustav List of the largest cannons by caliber Notes "Krupp K5 (Anzio Annie)...

Type Length Height Width Weight Year introduced Year discontinued Schwerer Gustav Railway gun 47.3 m (155 ft 2 in) 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in) 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)...

artillery pieces (by caliber) ever used in combat: the 800 mm (31.5 in.) Schwerer Gustav and Dora. The latter had been designed specifically to defeat the Maginot...

Projectile and cartridge case for the huge World War II Schwerer Gustav artillery piece. Most projectile weapons use the compression or expansion of gases...

2007. NOTE: The length of the V-3 cannon at Mimoyecques surpassed the Schwerer Gustav (Dora) 800 mm super-cannon, the Mörser Karl (Gerät 040) 600 mm tracked...

event for Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest Dora, the name of a Schwerer Gustav World War II railway gun Dora I, and Dora II, German U-boat bases in...

C/34 gun (coastal defense) 42 cm Gamma Mörser 42 cm Haubitze M. 14/16 Schwerer Gustav (80 cm siege guns) 25mm Puteaux anti-tank gun model 1937 (captured...

largest-ever calibre railway artillery piece in battle, the 80-cm calibre Schwerer Gustav—and specialised mobile heavy mortars to destroy Sevastopol's extremely...

Mörser 18 28 cm Haubitze L/12 42 cm Gamma Mörser 35.5 cm Haubitze M1 Schwerer Gustav Anti-aircraft guns 2 cm Flakvierling 38 quadruple anti-aircraft gun...

de 520 modèle 1916  France World War I - World War II 800 80 cm Dora  Nazi Germany World War II 800 80 cm Schwerer Gustav  Nazi Germany World War II...

Selbstfahrlafette "Maultier" (300) Karl-Gerät 60 cm 24 a/k/a "Mörser Karl" (7) Schwerer Gustav (2 built) Sd.Kfz. 142 Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) (10,086) Sturmhaubitze...

World War II 540 Karl-Gerät 041  Nazi Germany World War II 600 Karl-Gerät 040  Nazi Germany World War II 800 Schwerer Gustav  Nazi Germany World War II...

on mobile vehicles. Extremely large guns like the Paris Gun and the Schwerer Gustav have been rendered obsolete by long range missiles. Rate of fire: If...

example, Sevastopol was obliterated by the Nazis, who even brought Schwerer Gustav to the Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942). The Soviet naval base was one...

Russian siege cannon, the largest railway gun in Europe (note that Schwerer Gustav did not enter service until 1941, so in 1940 the 18 inch was the biggest)...

had two cars armed with two sets of Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons. Schwerer Gustav - a massive 1,350 ton artillery train. it had 80 cm 7,100 kg with 250 kg...

ordnance as the Mörser Karl self-propelled mortar, and the gigantic Schwerer Gustav railroad cannon. A second Axis offensive against the city, launched...