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everybody does - you don't know about gustav either?Here is a mortar on tracks... No one talks about this weapon by the Germans from WW2...
Karl-Gerät - Wikipedia
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Yes, I knew about this German Artillery rail gun but the mortar was a self propelled weapon. It must have taken forever to move it down the road...
i prefer to call it sheer madness
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we never built that nonsense - i really resent the expression pride/proud boys my dear [want me to call you a klansman?]Look what I found @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer , you German pride boys...
German Tank-based Railway Guns - Tank Encyclopedia
Nazi German projects to mount super heavy siege guns on one or more tank chassis in failed attempts to make them more mobile.
Nazi Germany is remembered, among other things, for hideously impractical, ludicrous ‘wonder weapons.’ The idea of making railway guns mobile by sticking multiple tanks together is probably one of the weirdest. In the end even the Nazis had enough sense to see that these designs were hopelessly impractical. However designs for vehicle-based super heavy siege guns did go on, with such things as the 58 ton Grille 17/21, the 182 ton R 2, and the 1,000 ton Urling. None of these designs made any impact on the course of the war; only the Grille 17/21 was partially built while the others remained on paper. The only design of this type to become operational, the Karl Gerät, remains a lasting symbol of Hitler’s megalomania and the embracing of unconventional designs by the Third Reich’s war machine.
No, I was just going for an emotional response... I just wanted a reply need my little red flag fix...
nothing new on the western front (that's actually a literal translation of what you know as all quiet on the western front)Look what I found a British Rail gun... called "Boche Buster" ...
In late 1940 one 18-inch howitzer was mounted on the railway mounting nicknamed "Boche Buster" which had been used in World War I to carry a 14-inch gun. It was deployed at Bishopsbourne in Kent on the Elham to Canterbury Line as a coast defence gun as a precaution against possible German invasion.
.Dean Goods 0-6-0 ROD 2330 and BL 18 inch Railway Howitzer
The BL 18-inch railway howitzer (formally Ordnance BL 18-inch Mk I howitzer on truck, railway ) was a British railway gun developed during World War I . Part of the progression of...www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com
The BL 18-inch railway howitzer (formally Ordnance BL 18-inch Mk I howitzer on truck, railway) was a British railway gun developed during World War I. Part of the progression of ever-larger howitzers on the Western Front, it did not enter service until 1920.
The Brits still have it operational to a point... photos...
Responding to a request from General Headquarters in France for bigger artillery, the Munitions Council, probably towards the end of 1917, invited both EOC and Vickers Ltd to submit designs based on a bore of 18 inches.
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