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 siege artillery for the explicit …

For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being …

2021年3月26日 · The Schwerer Gustav and its sister gun Dora were the two largest artillery pieces every constructed in terms of overall weight (1350 tonnes) and weight of projectiles …

2024年4月19日 · The largest gun in world history, Germany's Schwerer Gustav railway gun was 150 feet long, weighed 1,500 tons, and fired the biggest artillery shells of World War II. The …

2024年1月8日 · Schwerer Gustav, stood as a formidable weapon of war. A hallmark of Second World War artillery was the development of increasingly large and high-caliber cannons. The …

The Gustav Gun is the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat, capable of firing the heaviest artillery during WW2. Similar weapons, such as the Dora and the Langer Gustav, …

2021年5月8日 · Germany's gigantic Schwerer Gustav railway gun was the single largest weapon ever built and deployed in a combat setting.

2022年4月20日 · Schwerer Gustav or Hitler’s giant gun was a fearsome weapon of war. A distinctive feature of artillery of the Second World War were cannons of every increasing size …

2023年10月29日 · What Krupp AG created was the largest, heaviest piece of artillery ever used in combat. To say the Heavy Gustav was massive is actually an understatement. The entire rig …

Measuring an astonishing 31.5 inches in caliber, the Schwerer Gustav Gun was the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat. The sheer scale of this weapon was evident in its weight, …