World’s BIGGEST / MOST POWERFUL GUN ever built! (Heavy Gustav Railway Gun.)
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- World’s BIGGEST / MOST POWERFUL GUN ever built! (Heavy Gustav Railway Gun.)
This is the Schwerer Gustav, or, in English, the Heavy or Great Gustav. And very, very heavy and great it was -- it weighed 1,350 tonnes and could fire a 7 tonne shell to a range of 30 miles.
Developed by Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, the Heavy Gustav 800 mm caliber monster canon was explicitly designed as a siege artillery weapon to penetrate and decimate the super thick reinforced concrete fortifications of the French defensive facility known as the Maginot Line.
Built by the leading German arms manufacturer Krupp AG, and in fact named after the company CEO Gustav Krupp, the Heavy Gustav Railway gun stretched 155 feet in length, including its 106 foot long barrel. It required a team of thousands to dig embankments and lay railway tracks; and around 3 days and 250 people were needed to assemble the gigantic weapon.
The infamous, Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, was personally involved in the gun’s commissioning. In fact it was not until Hitler visited the Krupp company and enquired about the viability of such a theoretical weapon that things were finally set in motion and the colossal cannon was born.
Quite ironically though the Heavy Gustav Gun itself, the most powerful gun in the world ever, was never actually used in the fighting between the French and Germans, as the Nazis essentially invaded France via Belgium and therefore almost entirely circumvented the immensely expensive line of heavy French fortifications - indeed the brilliantly constructed yet completely under-utilized Maginot line has since become a synonym for how the best laid plans can so often go badly awry.
Then again, owing to the damage that Gustav would soon wreak upon an impressive system of Soviet fortifications, perhaps the allegedly “impregnable” Maginot line was best left untested.
And so it was in June of 1942 and at the Eastern Front siege of Sevastopol that Gustav was called in, and first used in combat.
In spite of a massive conventional German aerial and artillery bombardment, the tenacious Soviets, safely hidden in their massive underground bunkers, had so far managed to hold the strategically critical port city of Sevastopol.
It was therefore hoped by the German High Command that Gustav’s imminent arrival would help break the stalemate and end the siege in their favour.
Transported to the Crimea on a heavily customized 1.5 kilometre long 25 car train, Gustav was painstakingly positioned, assembled, and secured by some 3800 personnel. And when the world’s largest ever gun was finally unleashed, it proved to be utterly devastating.
Over a short 4 week period commencing on the 5th of June 1942, Gustav operated with clinical and overwhelming force -- with a single 7-tonne concrete piercing shell reportedly penetrating more than 100-feet of earth before obliterating a crucial Soviet underground ammunitions store.
By early July, Gustav had brought the siege to a decisive conclusion - with the Soviets surrendering and with the city of Sevastopol left in ruins.
And so while Gustav’s effectiveness as the ultimate siege breaking artillery piece was undeniable; it actually barely took any further part in the war owing to the extraordinary inherent challenges in transporting it, as well as due the limited opportunities available to a Nazi regime that would soon come under siege itself.
Uncertainty and conjecture surround Gustav's fate, but it seems this phenomenal weapon, the likes of which the world had never before seen, was probably destroyed by the retreating German army so as to avoid it falling into the hands of the advancing Soviet Union.
Wikipedia Commons details below:
"Bundesarchiv N 1603 Bild-121, Russland, Sewastopol, zerstörter Hafen" by Bundesarchiv commons.wikimed...
"Maginot line 1" by John C. Watkins V commons.wikimed...
"Battle of France collage" by User:DIREKTOR commons.wikimed...
"Fotothek df ps 0000010 Blick vom Rathausturm" by Deutsche Fotothek commons.wikimed...
The music featured in the video -- called "Apocalyptic War: Underscore" -- was composed by La Cigale.
Many thanks for watching,
UMC
man that gun would be an amazing museum artifact.
I think you would need a separate building just to house that thing without disassembling it.
Sam kappa jj
b'cos it sounds good :D
Sam kappa The gun itself would be a museum!
Bill 123 exactly
Next step: Build a silencer and use it for hidden operations
It's not that eazy as we say when the whole world cocacola can wass used to make only the gun without silencer 🙃🙃
@@natan4148 I UwU your snoozle wass OwO cola
You mean suppressor
@@quincylafoy3278 you're right
@The Robot well I have seen one being built but honestly those suppressor was very unpractical at all cost
Interviewer: So how big can you build?
Nazi engineer: Yes.
Ja.
Mista Bloo It was engineers not scientists that designed it, idiot.
Nazi engineer
You are a douchebag...
I want a handgun that can shoot .357mm caliber bullets... Nazi Engineer: ja... 357mm cannon...ok.
What’s amazing is the engineering that went into such a weapon. No computers no redo just pencil & paper with the urgency of war. You know that gun worked like fine watch I’ll bet.
I was about to make a joke about your comment and ask if you have a grandfather living in South America avoiding extradition.
Then I saw your name...
@@xXxJSCOTTxXx Clearly you may not be able to fathom the ingenuity for the period. Think about that while your strummin yer banjo in that gem of a Detriot product I may have sold you.
Not really... Everything was built that way. Houses, cars, planes, warfare machines. They'd probably think we are stupid that we can not do these things by hand if we were to time-travel back to their time.
@@reconx86 Cars? Planes? Are you sure?
@@hr473 yes computers werent used to design aircraft until the 1970's. Before that everything was handdrawn even the worlds fastest aircraft (SR71 Blackbird) was handdrawn.
It's a shame no audio was archived of this beast in action. I wonder how many personnel went instantly deaf as Gustav was fired.
I mean there is this video with audio
ruclips.net/video/DBvAni3TsKs/видео.html
But the background music is kinda blasting over it :/
what?
Germany in 1930s and 1940s was like (USA + Russia + China) now all together combined!
Completely really very good comment I like, warm greetings from East Germany
@@OldEastGermany Gerne!
Grüße aus München, South Germany
The very Center of Nazi Party.
The very Center of the Desaster.
Off course every country was at its strongest in WW2. Britain had more soldiers than China and the US combined today. Take the US for example it was the 17th smallest army at the start of WW2 and came out one of the strongest militaries. Don’t go off figures now because if a war breaks out they just go up.
Bullshit
@@321RrelyT well basically half the population were turned into soldiers
My grandpa´s dad worked on this gun, when it was fired he lost his eadrum almost instantly.
Fun fact, after "only" 48 shells, the barrel was completely worn out and had to be replaced, that´s why they stopped using it.
really? wow man that's pretty impressive .
Lost? Like, burst?
Yep they burst.
+Heiden Kraft Garnicht mehr, er hat ja nichts mehr Gehört und mit dem Gleichgewichtssinn ist auch nichtmehr viel wenn die Gehörschnecke platzt.
Your great-granddad had some story to tell!
Al Pacino - Say hello to my little friend?.
Hitler - Say hello to my big friend?.
Class
DIGGY DODGES you got it wrong Germany said hello to our big gun
@@americanbaldeagle2996 nah that vvould be communist Russia
Could Hitler be compensating for something? Hmmmm!
Why the question mark ?
The devastation caused by a single shell is mind-boggling . Especially with its depth penetration capabilities no bunker would be invulnerable .One of the reasons no doubt why the Germans constructed their bunkers with walls as thick as 30-40 feet , no opposition Gustaf should cause the same damage .
Was there a holster for concealed carry?
seems legit
Eliminator holy shit
Eliminator did you find a silencer as well?
yeah as will the magazine.
Well, if you were a giant you could conceal it.
Its just scary how advanced germany was back then.
+Gordon Liddy Dont you mean stupid? This video makes this gun seem much more useful then it actually was. It was very expensive to build, it needed its own railway system, it took months to setup and fire and it wore out its barrel incredibly fast. It looks impressive on paper but as a weapon of war it was a failure.
+Vezerai yeah, it was not at all efficient, not to mention it could be completely destroyed if allied planes bombed it , it need to have its own airspace cleared and under surveillance by the Luftwaffe. it was pretty much a Fear / propaganda weapon , much like the V2 rocket and the maus tank.
+Mark Wahlberg To be fair, like you said, look at the V2. We saw what it did, learned from the program and... well, hello ICBM.
+Vezerai It was designed to bomb London from miles away and penetrate 6 foot thick concrete bunkers.
+Vezerai You are a moron because both ally and axis forces used railways heavily during the war.
The sight of that Gustav gun is very intimidating.
Here's a bit of trivia, based on principles of physics. If a firearm is discharged in an environment without an atmosphere, maximum range is acheived if the angle of elevation is 45 degrees. On Earth's surface, due to air resistance, the angle is around 30 degrees, with most firearms. But with a large artillery piece, a higher angle produces the greatest range. That's because the projectile travels into the upper atmosphere, where the air resistance is much less. You'll note that in most of these photos of the Gustav firing, the angle is very steep.
+Clyde Wary or maybe it's steep because they wanted to penetrate bunkers. Wouldn't make much sense to shoot at them in a low angle, would it?
+Clyde Wary
Larger rounds are also less affected by air resistance. The mass increases in 3 dimensions while air resistance increases in 2 dimensions, unless I'm being stupid.
+InqWiper After pondering this for a few minutes I think you're part right... It's true that drag force is a function of frontal area, a drag coefficient, and a square of velocity. It's also true that mass increases as a cube of dimension. However if any dimension increases that also increases surface area, the drag function is incremented by this and would increase linearly with size of the round. The seeming exception to this rule is length of cartridge which would have more friction drag but not have an effect on frontal area. Interesting to think about...
Corbin Goodwin
Let's say we have a cube of 1x1x1 with the mass of 1 and also the drag of 1. If we increase the size to 2x2x2 we will have the drag of 4 but the mass of 8. 3x3x3 will have the drag of 9 and the mass of 27.
10x10x10 will have the drag of 100 and the mass of 1000. Now drag will only affect the cube by 1/10 compared to the first cube. No?
+InqWiper You're correct and I think you illuminate my point quite well, the critical note in this example is the additional length of the cartridge. If you have a pre-existing shape and expand it in a way that increases frontal area your benefit is nil, a 10x10x1 sheet would have a mass and drag of 100 in your example whereas a 5x5x10 would have a mass of 250 and a drag of 25, not a realistic thing to expect considering the shapes are changing and so would the Cd but for simplicity's sake we'll pretend it doesn't vary much.
So in the end the key statement and one that's borne out by reality and all modern high-performance cartridges is that Longer rounds are less affected by air resistance per mass. Consider the current spitzer bullet shape, effective frontal area is usually almost nil and the aspect ratio of diameter to bullet length is very low usually. One last thing to consider is that small arms cartridges often operate at supersonic velocities, I have no insight here as I haven't taken fluid dynamics. This artillery round may well operate at subsonic speeds.
An interesting discussion about the critical engineering aspects of projectiles I'd say...
is this good for home defense?
+dyno262 Well maybe, you need railroad tracks to move the gun on and it probably takes like 2 hours to fire.
+dyno262 Every patriotic household needs one.
+dyno262 Maybe if you have railroad tracks at your lawn and you are strong enough to load a 7 ton shell ;)
lmao
+dyno262 You would blow your Whole Town to Hell with that.
Gustav: finally i could complete my duty by decimating the maginot line.
Ghost Division lost contact goes brrrrrr....
You’d probably want to do more damage than just ten percent
The guns on the Bismarck were 15 inch diameter.......
-this bastard was 30 inch diameter.........shit!
Rather 32 inc. the shells of Bismarck were 800kilograms. These shells were 7 tons.
Beyond imagination ;-)
wermer bettencourt I've wondered before how the power of this gun and it's 7 ton shell would compare to the power of a tomahawk missile. I know it would be multiple times more powerful. It would be very interesting to know. I would also love to see what this gun could do to a tank
Gabe Anderson I would love to have it stick one on you Chimney !
Peter43John The biggest naval guns were Japanese, on the Yamato. They were 36 inch. And this was a mobile gun, built before the war. Mid war, they built a stationary number, called the V-3. That (those) were never actually used in action, they were bombed out by the RAF every time they got almost finished, but they were built aimed at London. Apart from those, both British & German forces had several big naval guns set up onshore, to fire across the English Channel, which were used. Wikipedia has quite a bit on this.
Kneedragon1962 Yamato had 9 x 18-inch guns in three triple turrets
Well, this single handedly answers why the French surrendered. The damn thing doesn't fire missiles, it fires miniature planets..
it wasn't used in the battle of france
it was pretty useless they came out at the end of 1942 and it was to heavy and to many ppl were needed to run it properly. It needed railways and railways are easy to sabotage...
"...it fires miniature planets"." lol
Shells weighing 7 tonnes!
That penetrated 100 feet of ground!
These are incredible numbers.
it changed the course of the battle of Sevatspol
You have absolute no understanding how war is fought. The French lost due to the blitzkrieg and the collapse of their frontline. Had the French managed to hold the initial blitz, this would have been a replay of WW1. When you don't have a large land buffer like Russia, modern warfare is basically all about a brief but brutal series of battles. Once you lose this initial series of battles and your frontline collapse, you have two choices: surrender or face total annihilation.
People sure do camp on top of that massive abomination.
Lol
hahahahaha
Ha
Ww2?
@@adamvlogs3 ?ci9
My question is how did the workers of the gun not go deaf after the first shot.
really good ear muffs
Steve Reptar
is that a question for me?
John Smith yep
uhh someone said they knew someone who worked on the gun - thats who i was replying too or thought i was. idk
Steve Reptar that person was a secret former Nazi and has since deleted the comment out of fear of reprisal by the Israli kill squad
Great Gustaf. When you need to kill an ant with a nuke.
Spider*
Fear factor👍
Issac netero style
@@imdraqo5427 yup
FIRE FOR EFFECT MARINE!
As Crazy as the Nazis were, they were some incredible engineers!!! Imagine if all of that power was in the hands of a Peaceful Nation?
Like who? The communist Soviet Union, Britain, the USA, Israel, China? Those peaceful nations?
I first thought... Why would a peaceful nation need such power....
Then i thought well i guess defense
Fun fact: In WW2 Germany *was* the peaceful nation. The winner although wrote the history in its own way of course.
But sadly it's in the hands of the crazy US government.
@@gortnewton4765 id recommend Swedish :D or even Finland/norway
Fine German Engineering.
As a matter of fact, we like it or not, the Germans created the internal-explosion engine, the aspirin, the reel-to-reel tape-recorder, the synthetic gasoline, the first guided missile, the first operational jet fighter etc etc etc.
Want some more?
That was not a jet it was a rocket with wings, killed the pilot 3 of 1 "flights". Internal combustion engines were around from 18th century. German production was efficient, but most of the rest is myth, today how many high tech do you see from Germany ?
If German engineering prowess, quality, and innovation is not fine and such concepts are indeed a myth, I would like to see some real non specific evidences. I think that you can not make so general a statement and hope for it to stand.
DEUTSCHLAND 🇩🇪
Mr. Caswell you know that the half of the M1 abrahams is german engineering?
It could only fire about 60 or 70 shells before the barrel was useless and needed it to be replaced. For the full cost, including development, of this weapon the Germans could have built around 500 Tiger II tanks which would have been far more effective in the battle and more easily transported.
its about tactical value
It's about being a total badass and claiming history without not one country rivaling us.
Are you confused? America went across an ocean and decimated the Nazis in their own back yard.
Are you confused?
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Netherlands
Belgium
New Zealand
South Africa
Norway
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Ethiopia
Brazil
Mexico
Colombia
Cuba
Beat Germany in their backyard.
Yeh it took a butt load of countries working together to defeat them though
Hey howitzer whos your daddy?
Howitzer: gustav 😂😂
LOL XD THE WAY YOU PRESENTED IT XD CANT STOP LAUGHING Props to you your hilarious nice on :D
🤣 yeah
i want to duel weild this weapon
good vid, very informative. thanks for the upload :)
M60 vs this beast :D world of tanks
You have to unlock it after 5 grenade kills lol
Imagine a gattling gun this size... The shock waves would cause an earthquake.
GREAT!!! Now to have something to kill Titans with
Yeah
Dude putting that thing on top of the railroad tracks on the wall would break the wall lol
Maybe,if it destroys their neck maybe,then yeah
+Luis Davila nah one shot from the whole front would put the Titans out of there misery.
+Luis Davila as in one shot could probably put a hole in the Titans upper body lol.
General : " u see this mountain overthere ? "
Soldier : "yes "
General :"i don t want to "
😂😂
Such an underrated comment.... This made my day🤣🤣🤣
@@nan_euro underrated comment of the year award goes to Aldo
I feel like if you would load that thing with birdshot it would make an excelent anti aircraft gun.
If you found a shot size that was still deadly when falling down, it would make a great anti everything gun.
rnedisc this son of a bitch would annihilate a zeppelin squad in one shot
@@yannik246 a Gigantic Cluster Bomb
@@yannik246 a Gigatic Cluster Bomb
Still can't destroy a Nokia 3310
Can you not
"Do you think he's trying to compensate for something?"
Shrek 2018
Finding dies to reload for this caliber is a pain in the ass...
+JAMES BARNES Hahahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
Electromagnetic Railgun+this thing= a pain in the ass for heat and ammo
It was crazy how they even moved the massive weapon ,on the railway tracks
My dad was a U.S. soldier in WW2, landed on omaha beach during the 1st wave of normandy invasion. He always spoke highly of the german's technology & intelligence.
this is literally some shit you'd see out of Warhammer 40k or somthing
Earthshaker cannon, ready to fire!
The scary thing is that this wouldn't even be close to the biggest guns in the Warhammer 40K universe.
+Eric Rentuza That warhammer shit is fictional.The shit here is real and the further possibilities of even more devastating weapons and vehicles are around the horrizon
Master Mirror of course its fictional. pretty sure everyone replying to the OP is aware of that
Now you know the inspiration for the Metal Slug game boss.
Nova Valkyr I'm probably the only one that gets that.
+José Mercado i get it too
Aruka Kirigiri 😃😃😃
Lol it is
I had no idea they actually used it in combat. I was always under the impression that it was built but only tested and not used in combat.. It’s wild to learn that they actually used it and annihilated soviet bunkers with it.
not to mention that the soviet ammo store was also underwater and gustav still got the job done
+Ken Daly Won the battle, but lost the war
So when will they add this to War Thunder?
LMAO
please!!!
Michael we have bat chat army and those arty stand no chance to us
u play war thunder 2 so cool
u my friend can give yourself a slice of pie
T10 will bounce a 7 ton shell knowing gaijin.
Finally. A real, charismatic voice documenting in these RUclips channels. Not some synthesized voice with some historical distortion to add to the videos. You got a new subscriber.
The German realized that v1, v2 missiles does a way better job with a fraction of the cost XD.
This thing would make a badass Decepticon
LMFAOOO YOU JINXED IT
Hitler: So how are we gonna conceal it?
Guy who made tank: *Yes*
I think even Chuck Norris would think twice about taking this on.
***** good point.
+Ken Banghart Really I think Chuck Norris would run away pissing himself in fear because he's a 76 year old man and this meme sucked back in 2005.
I WOULD LIKE TO PUT THIS IN MY BACK YARD, LOL
The range of this gun being 30 Miles and the width of the English channel where its the narrowest being 20.7 Kms. - the Germans could have theoretically used it to Bombard Great Britain - after the capture of France by Germany
Dover was regularly bombed by artillery from France
This is like something from an anime about fighting giant monsters.
It's nice to see that a weapon designed for a specific function actually ended up working, especially during ww2.
Yes it did what it was meant for. It broke the 2nd siege of Sevastopol and destroyed the Maxim Gorky fort and its famous battle ship double gun turrets which the soviets placed all around the forts at the harbors mouth . It also obliterated several steel reinforced concrete underground ammunition depots .
The Imperial War Museum in London has a fired projectile on display from this beast.Pretty impressive. A lot of effort , manpower and $$ to fire only 48 rounds in its lifetime..
That is one nasty beast.
Add tracks and armor and the ratte and this could be in the WoT (or warthunder)
Dancraft429 make it a russian premium instead of a box make it a triangle this time
caspercat kthxbai e
Blaze the monster machine
Absolutely right 'Gordon Liddy' Germany was the most progressive country on earth at the time.
German jet fighters?
German V1 and V2 rocket?
German submarines?
Should I name a dozen other German examples?
Hey where can I buy one of these? There are these bugs in my house and I need something to exterminate them.
Ok the price will be 1000000 times of your kidney
@@plant6416 you just straight up killed that joke completly
@@user-vr8fs8gg6h wat should I make it cheaper
Thanks Breaking Bad for bringing me here....
Went straight from Chem 101 to History just like that...
Same lol season 2 episode 7
When you think about it, German engineering was amazing back then and still today.
they don't make anything big military now, or do in single digits only
Largest Siege cannon.... My mind: " brings back in time pulls up to any castle... "Game on" - aims cannon- "
I can't believe this heavy Siege gun was built over 80 years ago . I still stare in awe of it when I see it. I just can't understand how the Germans could build something like that that long ago. The engineering involved to build something like this in the 19 thirties early forties is just beyond imagining. The Germans are a special breed of people.
I know this is an old post. But I had to agree with you on that one. I couldn't of said it any better.
Once they get something in their heads they wont let go until the project is finished . They are often accused of over engineering and that they have a tendency to 'engineer things to death' . I think there is some mild forms of jealousy involved in those remarks .
Don’t forget they tried to make another one that was basically going to be a Metal Gear. They had planned to make a version that was all terrain but they ran out of time with the end of the war fast approaching and still no solution to the weight issues or the fact that you need to change out the barrel every 30 or so shots
Thomas' new friend
Me accidentally pressing reload and having to wait 3-5 business days
Amazing engineering. Everything needed to be calculated. The right steel needed to withstand the emmence weight, The right screws, thickness etc
Breaking Bad brought me here. Great vid well done
This looks like a gun designed to blow up the frikkin Moon.
You covered this huge gun, I looked on your channel but you didn't cover the Yamato battleship (at least I didn't see it). Which was the sea equivalent of this gun during WW2. It was bigger than even the aircraft carriers of that time, it was a huge ship.
You obviously should make a video about that.
Does this come in a concealed pocket carry model?
i want a keychain version.
+Azeus XIV Todays society talking, this was big in 1942, lol
Even the pocket version would still weigh at least 2 tons (4,000 pounds)
Yes, it's called the Paris gun.
Himlow Odinmire lol
Drop a commando with a bag of thermite and you disable the Gustav forever
-WW
Walt Whitman? 😆
Willy Wonka
Woodrow Wilson?
Just take a shit in the barrel with a baked beans loadout
leone rey It’s actually untrue
Excellent video, thanks for making this mate.
Peace from WA.
+ㅤㅤ Thank you very much.
+Ultimate Military Channel coooolllll
Came here for the notification, stayed to watch the video again :)
Very well-researched and entertaining short documentary on a fascinating artifact of military history. Keep it up, UMC.
Surely somebody kept one. Imagine being able to tour this monster.
Definitely. Watching it on old film is one thing, seeing it real life would be beyond words.
Man.they really were brilliant people. But the savage marxist Bolshevik savages from the Asiatic steppes just overwhelmed them with sheer numbers....
it probably is still around and is a theme park now ! Kids can slide down the barrel for a fun ride too !
No there were only 2 ever built and commissioned and both were disassembled
@@keygianoesch322
Correct. I believe it was the Gustav and Liebe if I’m remembering correctly, and then the proposed all terrain version that was never built due to weight limitations was set to be named Dora.
You know the guys who built it knew it was a useless weapon but they thought “THIS IS SO COOL!!! I can’t believe they’re paying us to make this!!!!”
The crap our grandparents generation had to fight.
I got a permit for one, my neighbors hate me.
You deserve a like!
Well, I spent 20 years in the military in artillery and I can tell you I would not have wanted to be the one (of many) who had to clean the bore after each round was fired. That would be a lot of hard scrubbing!!
No gun decking that maintenance
The Spirit of Krupp lives on!
I wish I could have stood there when that thing would go off, that had to be one incredible sound.
You'd probably be deaf for the rest of your life if you were around it when it fired.
Breaking Bad sent me..
Most places charge around $100 - $150 per axle for new pads. Rotors and calipers are extra.
JustCallMeMrWest Lmaoo that's funny because it sent me too hahahahahaahah
Jesse: This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed... *Bitch!*
*Walter looks at Jesse in disbelief*
Lady Love 😂
i also came after watching season 1 episode 6
Some in the German army said that the great rail gun was a great aid...to the Allied cause. True, it helped in siege situations, but it had an enormous cost. Separate rail lines, a huge contingent of dedicated men, it was the costliest single weapon in military history.
The nazis actually DIDN'T invade through Belgium in the battle of France. They instead were able to penetrate through the ardennes forrest where the Maginot line was weakest even though it was thought to be impassible by tanks. The Belgium method was in actuality employed by the Kaiser during WW1 under the "Schlieffen plan"
Ultimate Military Channel ohhhh that would make sense, sorry. I just heard "Belgium" and immediately thought "STRAIGHT THROUGH BRUSSELS"
I think you're being a bit pedantic. The Germans totally avoided the main/actual Maginot line on the French border and instead passed through the relatively pathetic/non existent section of the line through southeastern BELGIUM and northern LUXEMBOURG.
Ultimate Military Channel yeah, thats what i believed. Thank you for clarifying exactly where through Belgium.
No problem at all. Many thanks for watching.
why ur voiceso sexy
Hello, Ultimate Military Channel! I love this video so much, and I want to make sure everyone can understand and enjoy it. That's why I wanted to let you know that your captions are a little off.
At about [:25] the auto-captions say "very very heavy and great it was and wide 1350" where they meant to say "very very heavy and great it was, weighing around 1350".
When you get a chance, could you fix that? That'll help the 360 million folks globally who rely on closed captions to understand videos. Thank you, and keep up the great work!
Thanks for pointing this out. But I'm afraid I don't control the auto-captions. I think it's an auto/computer managed system. I hope that people relying on the captions can still appreciate and enjoy the video overall (even if there are some minor imperfections). Thanks again.
Nazi: _falls asleep_
Herr Kapitänleutnant: "Hey Hans, watch zhis"
I wish we could see impact of one of those 7 ton shells.Just imagine how awsome that would be
They weighs about 700 kilograms not 7000 kilograms
Sure enough the devs added it to war thunder.
It could only move on tracks. It isnt a tank.
fridie lots of things in war thunder arent really "tanks".
Matt Cubed WoT is dying
+Matt Cubed you mean the armoured vehicles but nothing in warthunder that you can play moves only on tracks. Without tracks this thing would just sink into the mud of the battlefield and not be capable of movement. Although i think that it is just a carriage that needed a lockomotiv.
fridie I dont care if it cant move, just the gun will be fine for me.
This is perhaps the best example of green lighting a military white elephant you will ever see.
how the hell do they clean the barrel?
+Weegee Spaghetti the barrel had already fired 250 rounds during testing and development. ..it then fired another 48 which finished off the barrel so it's life would be around 300.
you wrap a boing 747 in cloth and it flyes inside the barrel
they probably sent a jew down there to clean it
If you're having to replace the barrel after 50 or 60 shots why bother. lolol 😄
lmfao man
There needs to be a movie about this
@Rozz Yeah true actually ngl
Lachlan Kiel but it would be cool as a fictional film. it doesnt need to be accurate, just needs to be in the same era and create its own story. one where maybe it wasnt as impractical as in real life
@Rozz they can't lie about this heavy duty megaton gun
@@deskrazenia8206 It could fire MOAB style shells.
At 20mm is when a gun starts to become a cannon, and that's way bigger than a 50 cal. The 88mm cannon was feared for shredding tanks in WW2. This thing was 800mm. And that's just the width. Where other bullets make holes in things, this thing will remove the thing, and the things next to the thing. And behind the thing. And everything in front of the thing. It's the ctrl alt delete of cannons.
I can see where the animation artists in The Legend of Kora took inspiration from
Great video with all the info I wanted and more.
Thanks! :)
Imagine you're a soldier and this thing pulls up
it’s fantastic and quite breathtaking and I’m a woman and I find it very impressive,
Someone definitely wanted to impress Hitter!
Impress me baby
So that's how Dinosaur went extinct.
As Al Capone once said , “ You can get more with a kind word and a gun , than what you can get with a kind word ,”
Though you gotta wonder what the point of a gun like this is when the Allies just developed a 10 ton bomb and dropped it from a plane instead
CPTANT 😂😂😂😂😂
CPTANT: when this artillery was constructed, there was no 10 ton nuclear bomb to drop from a plane. had germany had such a bomb in at the start of the war, and others not, i reckon a/ ol' Gustav wouldnt have been used and b/ the war would have concluded very quickly on all fronts.
Alexander Stollznow
Not a nuclear bomb, huge ass regular bombs.....
The Tallboy and its successor the Grand Slam:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_(bomb)
CPTANT this wasnt made to go across seas and do devastating damage, it was artillery used to provide support to troops, tough defenses, stailmates
CPTANT. Yes, used by British to destroy the Nazi pocket battleship Tirpitz.
Excellent video, thank you
A gun big enough to make a battleship hide.
German engineering was always the best of their time.
There's a reason USA needed scientists from Germany to construct the nuclear bomb.
Imagine how much farther ahead the world would be if we had sided with Germany instead of the Soviets!
Yeah, because burning books and killing 'intellectuals' is what the world really needs, right? The Nazis were mostly ruled by idiots.
Well... in many parts this sounds like the world I live in today... Only the religion-thing is something what has really improved today (free choice of religion). Bit the rest of what you named is today as bad as it would have been if Hitler would have decided everithing.
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It would have been full-on Communism, with everything planned out to German precision.
Also,
There would be no budget for a "war machine" or money wasted on the infirm and unproductive people.
And with just one Religion, even more savings.
Well - I'm talking about the ideals that were laid out in Hitler's book, written while he was in jail. The dream of an all white world, with a ruling class and a slave class.
It never happened.
TIMEtoRIDE900 that's very far off from his goals and vision for the world.
Have you ever read the book?
Are you happy to see me or is that a Schwerer Gustav in your pocket?
I need one of these, the next time the neighbors throw a party I can adjust the AOA and fire for effect. Hey Randy do you hear that whistling sound??? Randy, what sound _____________________ !
I would love to see this Giant in operation.
*World War 3 starts.
Still amazed this thing was built. If there was ever a "Nazi Super Weapon" this would be it... This thing was insane.
Holy Krupp!! That is a massive gun.
This is the gun Walter White described to Jesse Pinkman during the first season of Breaking Bad.