This is the biggest cannon that the world has ever seen. Gustav Jubao's range is 29 miles, but his lethality is extremely fierce. However, because it was too heavy, this "super monster" failed to bring the dying Nazi empire back to life. Instead, it became a "captive" of the US military in the war.
During World War II, Nazi leader Hitler gave orders to German engineers to design a "super shell that can penetrate one meter thick steel, seven meters thick concrete and thirty meters deep soil". Weapons experts from Friedrich Krupp Arms Company in Germany immediately presented Hitler with Gustav Jubao, the largest cannon ever.
Including the transport vehicle, it weighs 1344 tons. The whole cannon is four stories high, 20 feet wide and 140 feet long. Operating Gustav cannon is a nightmare for the logistics department, because 500 soldiers, Qi Xin, need to work together to carry and move this "super monster" and fire deadly shells at the enemy.
Gustav cannon is nearly one meter in diameter and wide, and can hold two shells, a high-performance explosive bomb weighing 10584 pounds and a concrete piercing bomb weighing 16540 pounds. Gustav cannon can hit targets 29 miles away, and it was called "special weapon" at that time.
In World War II, apart from Gustav, the most famous German super cannon was probably Karl.
1933, in order to cope with the "maginot line" being built in France, Germany placed an order with Krupp for 800mm train guns. 1937 When Krupp officially started construction, the Nazi government issued an order to its old enemy Rheinmetall to design self-propelled mortars with the same purpose.
1940 in may, the prototype began to carry out various tests, and was named General carl baker who participated in the development, and the manufacturer number was "040 Equipment". Originally equipped with 8. 44 times caliber 600mm mortar, but there is room for design, so it can also be replaced by 1 1.5 times caliber 540mm mortar to increase the range. The model of 540mm is "04 1 equipment". They are all installed on a huge chassis with 1 1 load wheels. The car body weighing 124 tons is driven by Daimler-Benz MB503-V 12 580 HP engine, and the top speed is only 10 km. Because of its earth-shattering power when it is launched, it is also called "the hammer of Thor".
From 1940, 1 1 to 194 1 in August, Rheinmetall Company built six "Karl" mortars, named Adam 1, Eve 2 and Dor 3 respectively.
194 1 year, No.628 heavy artillery battalion equipped with four "kars" was established in Rumberg, Germany. Adam, Eve, Dole and Odin of the battalion, as well as the 420mm fixed mortar gun Gamma and the 800mm train gun Gustav were together with 65438+. After that, 1 No.4 was handed over to the 833rd Heavy Artillery Battalion, and "Loki" and "Divo" participated in 1944 to suppress the Warsaw Uprising. At the end of the war, every two "Karl" were organized into a company, but it was basically useless when there was no air superiority at all.