"No doubt about it, the Schwerer Gustav certainly was impressive. Like the old Paris gun, this monster belonged to the German Navy, but unlike the piece that had frightened the City of Light, the Schwerer Gustav was more than a thunderous braggart.
The monster was so huge it took a team of 2,500 "volunteers" to lay track for it, and the train carrying and supporting it was 25 cars long, about a mile.
Unlike the Paris version, it only had a range of about 30 miles, but this one could really satisfy -- the Germans, that is -- by throwing a shell that didn't weigh just 1,000, 2,000, or even 3,000 pounds. When the Germans showed off their prize piece, people really took notice. Hell, who wouldn't when the damned thing could fire a 7,000-pound shell?"
From:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/07/biggest-guns-in-human-history.html
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dmacsays...Was this what was also called "The Paris Gun" ?
MarineGunrocksays...Nope. This one is bigger than the Paris gun. (fired bigger shell, but not as far)
budzossays...The Germans would have so won WWII if they weren't such dumbasses, misallocating their resources this way. They didn't even go to total war, meaning wartime economic policy, rations and measures for every citizen, until 1943.
radxsays...*brief
siftbotsays...This video has been flagged as being less than 1 minute in length - declared brief by radx.
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