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    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...
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    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...
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    deployed – seven examples built, six seeing combat 1941–45. Schwerer Gustav (Heavy Gustav) – an 800mm railway gun, the largest artillery piece ever used...
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  • Monsieur Gustav H., a leading character in The Grand Budapest Hotel Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, dubbed "the Gustav" by US soldiers Schwerer Gustav, 800-mm...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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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...
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    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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    were confronted by Maxim Gorky I. They deployed the 80 cm rail gun Schwerer Gustav to destroy it. On June 6, 1942, heavy guns and Karl-Gerät siege mortars...
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    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; sister...
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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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    bear its weight and its width was too great for existing tunnels. Schwerer Gustav Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster Land battleship T-42 Notes Chamberlain...
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    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...
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    Projectile and cartridge case for the huge World War II Schwerer Gustav artillery piece. Most projectile weapons use the compression or expansion of gases...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • ordnance as the Mörser Karl self-propelled mortar, and the gigantic Schwerer Gustav railroad cannon. A second Axis offensive against the city, launched...
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    and a 460 mm (18 in) battleship shell over 1,500 kg (3,307 lbs). The Schwerer Gustav large-calibre gun fired shells that weighed between 4,800 kg (10,582...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    saw the final use of the railway gun, with the massive 80 cm (31 in) Schwerer Gustav gun, the largest artillery piece to be used in combat, deployed by...
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    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...
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  • P. 1500 Monster, a self-propelled gun Nordstern Nuremberg Rallies Schwerer Gustav Welthauptstadt Germania Korean dictator Kim Il Sung endorsed a number...
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