ever fielded. The Gamma-Gerät began development in 1906 and entered service with the Imperial German Army in 1911. The Gamma-Gerät was the most powerful...
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Big Bertha (howitzer) (redirect from Gamma-Gerat)
centimetre kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer...
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World War I vintage heavy pieces like this Škoda and also a surviving Gamma-Gerät weapon had to be used. The Škoda, apparently the sole M17 model, entered...
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Switzerland Modern 406 16-inch howitzer M1920 United States World War II 420 42 cm Gamma-Gerät German Empire Nazi Germany World War I World War II...
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Germans constructed a railroad to transport their 42-centimetre (17 in) Gamma-Gerät howitzer. The howitzer's shell weighed about 1 ton with a range of 14 km...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kaunas Fortress. (in German) Gamma-gerät in pictures 360-degree panorama of the 9th Fort Memorial to the victims...
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German shelling with large-calibre guns. A battery of super-heavy 420 mm M-Gerät howitzers was intermittently pounding the fort, damaging the 75 mm gun turret...
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Paixhans 2 made; used in combat; at least 1 survives 600 (later, 540) Karl-Gerät Mortar 1940 Nazi Germany Rheinmetall 7 made; used in combat; one survives...
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(multiple-rocket launcher) 38 cm schwerer Ladungswerfer Karl-Gerät (Gerät 040 and Gerät 041) - self-propelled 600mm and 540mm mortars family 2 cm KwK...
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Austria-Hungary World War I, World War II 540 Karl-Gerät 041 Nazi Germany World War II 600 Karl-Gerät 040 Nazi Germany World War II 800 Schwerer Gustav...
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kinetic bombardment weapons system Thor, an alternate name for the Karl-Gerät, a 600mm German mortar used in World War II THOR/Multi Mission System (MMS)...
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Rocket artillery 7.3 cm Föhn-Gerät 7.3 cm Propagandawerfer 41 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer 43 15 cm Do-Gerät 15 cm NbW 41 21 cm NbW 42...
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of super-heavy artillery pieces were made available. Three 600 mm Karl-Gerät self-propelled mortars (Thor, Odin, and one other) and one 800 mm gun (Schwerer...
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21 cm Granatwerfer 69 38 cm schwerer Ladungswerfer Mortar carriers Karl-Gerät Reihenwerfer See also German designations of foreign artillery in World...
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