Schwerer Gustav
The Biggest Gun In HistoryDuring the second world war, the Germans created a variety of weapons. Some of those weapons were cannons. They created one of the biggest cannons ever, It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp industries as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications then in existence.
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VideoIn the middle of this footage, it shows the use of the infamous cannon and how it was reloaded.
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Design and ShellsThe assembled gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes, and could fire shells weighing seven tonnes to a range of 47 kilometres. Its shells were 15 feet long.
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