The barrel Thursday: Dora Schwerer - Gameblog

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Now that I’ve caught your attention we talked about Dora Schwerer. Twin or Twin Gustav Schwerer a very large caliber gun mounted on rail.

Model Dora

Dora The model has never been used during World War II but its big brother Gustav had its moments of glory with the attack of several Russian forts and the destruction of an ammunition depot 30m under rocks. These behemoths could only shoot two parallel rails railway. Their dimensions are outliers. Almost 43m long, 7m wide and 11m high for a mass of 1350 tons.

Photo of Gustav Schwerer active

ammunition used are not far behind.

The explosive ordnance, a 800mm, weighs 4.8 tonnes to a range of 45km.
ammunition anti- shielding, still 800mm, weighs 7.1 tonnes for a worn 37km. This ammunition may enter 1m steel, reinforced concrete 7, 10 and 30m concrete ground. Both ammunition are almost 4m long.

the famous shells next to a tank T-34

to function, these monsters need 500 servants to maintain the rate of fire 2 rounds per hour. We do not count the site preparation that involves 2,500 men during 3-6 weeks and the mounting of the barrel which requires 250 for 54 hours.

There was the Nazi regime to lay aberrations martial same.

You can find this info on Wikipedia, of course this post is inspired by those of supernova themselves inspired by those Joniwan.