The World's Most Powerful Gun
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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This is the story of the most insane rail gun ever.
Sources:
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Music:
Artlist:
Matthias Förster - Final Confrontation
Out of Flux - Descending Chamber
Roman P - They Will Come Soon
I AM A DUO - Apathy Inertia
Elia Azarzar - March of the Damned - No Backing Vocals
Out of Flux - Slithering Woe
Theatre of Delays - Crystal Gaze
Epidemic:
Time is Up - Hampus Naeselius
Automatic City - Hampus Naeselius
The Final Mile - Anthony Earls
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Armchair documentaries, almost weekly
Listening to this narration from a narrator with a German accent is an immersive experience
Its amazing if you're from Germany :) I often cant stand accents (indian accets e.g.) but german accents are awesome and the heavier the better
@clawo7 Really? We Germans hate our accents and do our best to minimize it. Glad you like it though.
@clawo7everyone has an accent, so you can't stand anyone talking?
@@oscartheepic9101bro… @clawo7 literally specified which ones ahhaha if anything, the correct question would be “ what accents do you like?”
0:24 it was actually 6 million workers
10 minutes of 'fern' is not sufficient for an addict
fr dude
SERIOUSLY!
You need help man. I used to be there too, but now I pause the video every 2 minutes instead of consuming it all at once. If I can do it, you can as well. God speed my friend.
@jyp523 hhhh, broo, its too far, loll
@@jyp523
I think People should Identify there Capabilities then they can decide how much Content they can handle in One Time
Fern Videos has So many Details
For me 10 Minutes Video is Enough in One Time
Because I analyse all things
Just watching without Understanding is Stupidity
0:09 THAT TANK IS MASSIVE. Well, you know what else is massive? Fern's production team producing these MASTERPIECES
and YOU know whats even more MASSIVE???????????
fern's fanbase engagement.
7:05
You know what else is massive?
@@MaskedWood lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww tappeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fadddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@MaskedWood Fern writing..!
2:00 the fuhrer is fuhrious 🤣
lol
“sorry”
It was the sorry that got me 😂
Good one.
sry waiiiiiiy too good
9:42 never expected that ending but ok
it's like a scene from a Sniper Elite game
i like how half of the commen'ts here are b0ts
Been on the fence about subbing but I’m sold now
why we love you fern
haha that was hilarious, I make similar videos so fern is definitely GOATED, takes a lotta hard work.
Imagine spending Hundreds of Millions on a „Monster Machine“ Only for it to not even hit the Target one single Time Lmao
maybe if it wasnt a railgun it would perhaps have been more effective.
Like the M247 Sgt York !!!
Imagine knowing it would take 1000s of fighting capable soldiers to operate, when instead they could probably operate 80ish towed artillery pieces. Plus the medal and research personnel being wasted.
Sounds exactly like something the US government would do
I honestly think this is definitive Hitler had a tiny penis.
paused my son's birth to be here
Lol 😂
😂😂 usual fern fan
Most sane fern fan
Dude's been like: "It's not an online game, so I can pause it!"
Dude
For anyone curious this cannon has an amazing map in Call of Duty World War II. Not sure exactly how accurate the in game model is but this thing is HUGE. I remember being a kid and looking up Gustav cannon because I like the call of duty map, I was speechless when I realized they actually built one.
In the leaked expansion for Return to castle Wolfenstein (Enemy territory) there is a map with this railgun,
it was an objectif based sabotage mission where the Allied had to prevent the Axis from loading ammo into the gun via a railway system, or else the Axis won.
You could delay the firing of the gun by damaging the control panel, gaining precious time if all else failed.
only problem is... i've never played a single CoD game and never intend to xD
I'm pretty sure it's also in wolfenstein enemy territory. But I doubt anyone even remembers or played that game.
@ ...Yeah that's what i said
@@SirDavid290 ohh shit didn't see your comment. Never expected anyone to mention that gem lmao
1:58 Peak comedy
Did Hitler had a lisp??
9:43 peak comedy
we try
@@fern-tv You keep the jokes rare but original with the fact that you don't do it often, its perfect.
@fern-tv love your content but I think you should avoid these typical YT-humour gags/puns. Your content is great by itself and they cheapen it.
If it wasn’t for this, this video would watch like something that could be on TV
I am from and now in Sevastopol, my grandgrandma told me when i was 11 that shells was so freacking massive that they just didnt detonate, they just busted trough buildings and sitting there, causing a lot of fear that it can detonate any particular moment
Main damage to the port was dealed by planes
maybe its a AP round, and Armor Piercing round don't have high explosive charge?
(correct me if im wrong)
@@mr.highground9250 i am doubting that round without explosive filler could be produced, doesnt make any sense cause accuracy and wearing of barrel
and now you're doing the same to Ukraine
NONE of these shells was fired on Sevastopol. Basically you (or she) are a liar. These bunkers were far from any building in the town.
@@badmaniak she was 11, she probably never saw an actual one, and she (or OP) might simply be mixing up stuff.
No reason to call them liars.
Bro always makes 10 minutes documentary which feels like a 30 min movie
brainrot attention span
@@camdt456 nah bro its just immersive and information rich
@dextrition multiple things can be true at once
Still one of the most high quality and consistent channels on RUclips
look into 2bg, simplicissimus, tatsache……
lemmino top quality, less uploads
@@911madza ferns quality is much better in my opinion
@@barryhoi its awesome, i agree! hoog an neo is pretty good too
@@911madzalemmino is so overrated.
2:02 as repetitive as the joke is, it'll never cease to make me chuckle. Great work by the way, team! keep it up!!
The cg is very good in these videos, but a missed detail was that when shot, not only did the barrel recoil but the whole thing would roll back on the rails
I like how you complemented him first
probably too expensive to make that detail?
@@alveolate nope, just "speed up process, by dropping non-emotional text" or probably just cut to save time.
This reminds me of the "anti-titan artillery" which were mounted on armored trains in Attack On Titan. Crazy thing is I had read a reddit post about AOT being a allegory of the world wars and this now makes even more sense to that theory.
My first thought was „hey thats the Anti-Titan Artillery Train which shot through Rainers Titan like a Hot Knife cuts through Butter“
I lived in a house with graphic designers, animators and illustrators during my university days. The amount of time it takes Fern to do this video is insane. God bless creatives and story tellers. You’re forever appreciated.
can you say how these are editied
I am just amazed seeing how the animation quality just keeps getting better with every video. Love this channel
It feels like started yesterday with animations and have already come this far.
Remember playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory back in the day and this was in one of their levels, really interesting stuff.
Yes!!
It was also a multiplayer map in Call of Duty: WWII iirc or at least inspired it. Loved playing there and sniping off top of the cannon with the boys.
and the Leopold in Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines! Classic
I appreciate a lot that you link to your sources in the video description. You're a rare kind. Keep it up!
(You also got me good with the joke at 1:58 but so many others mentioned that already. xD)
If you are curious, they have worked for publicly funded broadcasting on their german channel, thats why their research is so thought-through and professional. They have learned journalism from "real" journalists and aint just another youtube channel.
@@Moodboardxyz Simplicissimus is awesome. I've been subbed to their channel for ages and that's how I found Fern in the first place. :D
I just feel like that there used to be way more journalism and science adjacent creators who sourced their work but many of them stopped because most viewers don't notice either way. I'm glad about every one who still goes the extra mile.
“…. But drop a commando, and just a bag of this, it could melt right through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever”
"Ahhh. Fire."
YEAH MR WHITE! YEAH SCIENCE!
every single fern video has a 50/50 chance of sounding completely coo-coo crazy or very serious and interesting
..or both
1:59 its always a treat when serious narrrrator cracks a joke and breaks the 4th wall
Hitler had all the money and amphetamines in the world, and he came up with the kind of idea that someone with all the money and amphetamines in the world would.
Not his idea in reality, it was from a German artillery general "logically" calculating a cannon to destroy Maginot Line from Germany. Of course post war German generals refused to admit and blamed on someone dead
Fern: Your favorite creator's favorite creator
Honestly in my eyes the German Paris gun from WW1 was a more technological achievement for the time. Sure, it's caliber is just 8.26 inches compared to this gun's 31.5, but this gun also couldn't fire a shell through the stratosphere to a distance of 76 miles. Also, it killed a total of 256 French civilians. It was also mounted on a railway carriage.
Mister Hitler, would you rate this weapon of yours an 8 out of 10?
Hitler: NEIN!!!
this implies the existence of hitlers sane railgun
There were other railway mounted guns that worked.
Under Water Internet Cables ! your team would kill it covering this topic!
That Any desk ad transition had no business being that abrupt and smooth
I keep thinking that the quality of these videos can’t get any better, but with every new upload, they just keep improving
This is awesome! There is set of Yu-gi-oh cards based off of this. Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max is the name of this particular one and it's the ace monster of Anna Kaboom!
Love when games add in real historical events or take inspiration from it. The people who built the gun were terrible people and deserve no recognition, but what a cool idea. A railway gun 😂
Came here for this comment haha. Actually was a good playable card back in the day!
that transition to the ad was clean
0:00 That bug is chilling in there 😂😂😂
fr
when fern drops, i quit all my plans for the day
huh so that‘s where Kuvira got the idea 🤔
Was searching a comment like this, ty
I've heard about this insane monstrosity of a weapon. But man, I did not know how incredibly complicated it was just to set it up. The cannon looks cool design wise and looks very menacing but man was it super impractical.
Have you heard about Project Babylon? Thats Sadam Husseins version of this. And even better he wanted to build multiple superlarge guns!
Imagine a modern version of this with rocket assist and GPS guidance it would still be a colossal waste of resources and manpower but it would at least be a lot more viable and cool
I mean yeah, would be somehow cool, but it really is no useful idea anymore after we got nukes. Nukes take way less effort, space and operation for way higher damage, so why bother to build a gigantic thing like this?
@@niklas6882Because you can’t use nuclear weapons in combat as the world would end, but you could use this.
@@DrBees-ms2vt How would the world end? Countries always set up "red lines", talk about the point of no return, and they get crossed all the time. If one country would use a nuke in battle, do you really think someone on the other side would react with "oh well, let's just all die"? This theory is proclaimed for almost 80 years now, and it's absolute nonsense, as multiple incidents of false alarms during the cold war showed.
I imagine a railgun would be much more effective given the kinetic energy = 0.5 x mass x velocity squared. So the return from increasing the velocity of the round would be much greater. Modern war seems to be about cheap effective devices though such as drones with explosives
Sadam Hussein wanted to build multiple oversized guns.
Google Project Babylon. According to a Iraki General they wanted to take out satellites with it or fire on Israel with it.
The transition to the sponsor segment was 10/10
*railWAY gun, not railgun unless you're telling me hitler had access to electromagnetic accelerator weapons?
yeah they had
They did. Some French guy invented them in 1918. One German engineer proposed making them during WW2 as anti aircraft.
@@AliComputering not a god damn chance. The amount of power the general atomics railgun (the most powerful electromagnetic weapon currently built) needs its own on-site power generation plant and numerous electrical safety systems as the amount of power it draws when firing could black out half a city if it was connected to the grid.
Back in ww2 coal was used to produce power (nowhere near enough for what you'd need) and given that lead-acid batteries were cutting edge technology back then you'd have no where near the capability to store the power needed to fire. On top of that semiconductors weren't around then so good luck building a firing system without relays, tranistors, capacitors as well as the required purity grade of the copper coils used in the barrel would be so far beyond ww2 germany it's silly.
Something tells me you dont even know how a railgun functions beyond "haha funny star wars gun go zap" if you're seriously trying to convince me they had EM weapons back in ww2. If you cant build a tank transmission that functions you've got no chance of building one of the most complex weapon systems to date.
@ but would they have functioned at all given the pwer constraints and primitive level of technology?
something tells me you'd get about 2 shots before out of power or it destroys itself.
@ your problem is you compare it with what they built today,
I never said it was like that now built,
they had technology and tested it,
what u say look like someone says there is no way Americans made nuke at WWII,
(some still say that, they beilive it was not nuke. but it was just many explosive and napalm they used, and for fact they show those image after impact, which still many walls even some house and construction stood tall! (most houses and places built from wood destroyed)
so it their opinion true? no!
back then they uses about 15-20 Kt bombs,
at 1961 soviet Tsar bomb had 100 Mt tnt power,
because they feared destruction out of control, they reduced it s power to half!
in less than 2 decades world go from 15 kt to 100 Mt!!!
but even now after about 65 years still Tsar bomb is still by far most powerful bomb!
so should we say they were more advanced??? no!
or because nuclear is advanced category we say it was not exist at WWII with primitive technology?
no!
what I said , they had, but was not advanced and complicated as today once,
and they just tested as trials,
it was a marvel of engineering
I dont remember paying for youtube premium
Think it's worth mentioning that tank wasn't just a normal tank, it was (and in some respects still is) utterly massive for it's time. King Tiger tank vs say a Cromwell will give a good idea of scale
This is insane I never knew this was a real weapon.
Really is well known in germany
Sadam Hussein wanted to build multiple of them and even bigger! Google Project Babylon
fern is by far the best animations around of true events. love the content fern keep it up ❤
Is this what Walter was talking about?
Fr who else remembers that scene
It was built underground to not let the enemies know about it
7:26 My ranked teammates 😭😭
This gun really puts into perspective the insanity of WWII battleships. Because Battleships where lugging around anywhere between 6-12 guns half the size of this behemoth. It also explains why no one wanted to be on the recieving end of a battleship broadside. The gustav is a terrifying and amazing display of engineering. But it is an increibly imobile, slow to fire, slow to reload cannon. Battleships by contrast could go anywhere, sometimes even at highway speeds, and drop 9 shells a second every 30 seconds.
yeah its impressive how they brought such a Beast to life, its crazy to think the ammount of engineering and preparing to make this thing, even if it was pratically useless.
A fern video just right after I lay down in my bed!? Hell yea I'm staying up to 3am again lmao
It’s 9 minutes 😂
@@steelokey yea but it puts me in a damn rabbit hole, after the video youtube would be like "Hey how bout this one?" and damn well I would watch it too and by the time I realize its like 3am lmao
1:09 you know what else....
LOWWWWWWWWW
thats what i was thinking
No
@@ChristopherFerry-z5ydrugs
Looooooooo
the way the bug just perks up like "oooohh artillery" is so funny
BRO wow..... I was waiting for a new video of yours
INCREDIBLE....... Thanks the fern team
I swear this wasn't the thumbnail earlier...
0:47 that was cold
1:59 and the Fuhrer is furious. 😂
No need for apologies bro, we love it 🔥
When this guy posts my plan to go to school is no more😭
This was on my favourite map on Cod ww2… even though it was a game it gave a great idea of just how big this weapon was.
9:01 SHitler crying hahaha
I love your sprinkling of WW2 videos.. keep them coming!
9:35 that was sick asf
I think the 2s7 pion used by Russia the largest artillery in military service firing the massive 203 mm shell is the best with same maximum range of 47 kms but with way better accuracy than the Gustav by giving you 60 rounds per hour firing rate in comparison to 1 round per hour is impressive. If Soviets had that during world war 2 it would have been different
3k in 6 minutes is wild 👌
”The germans call it Schwerer Gustav, we call it Mighty Gerta.” - Huxley
Thank you for teaching us about the small points in history. This is so interesting! I wonder if this is the rail gun we are tasked with taking down in the fourth mission of Sniper Elite 4?
Awesome game, love that mission :)
The voice of the speaker in the previous videos is creative.
Great video, I just have one small issue at 4:17. Calling soviet soliders russian is a small and understandable mistake. There were many many more ethnic groups in the rad army. Only focusing on russians is aiding current russian propacanda. I know this was not your goal, but I just wanted to tell you
wow what a logistic nightmare
6:44 How can they hear the gun firing when the projectile velocity is more than double the speed of sound?
But the projectile flies along a parabolical trajectory, and it is so fast only in a fraction of the whole path. While the sound wave travels straight and at the same speed
it shoots in a arc while sound is travelling straight
It still makes sound even if the source is faster than sound
@@rasimbot I thought about that but intuitively it seemed to me like the math doesn't check out. The parabolical trajectory isn't that extreme, it can maybe add 20-30% of total distance, and does it drop speed from double the speed of sound that quickly that the sound still reaches the target earlier than the projectile?
@@dnbmania I should've phrased it better, I meant how can they hear it *before* it impacts their position
2:41 that is so clunky but so smooth at the same time
Don’t give Elon too many ideas
You're about 60 years too late for that. Project HARP in the 60s has already explored the possibility of using large guns to put things into space. Also, LongShot Space is currently making a giant gun with the hope of eventually getting to orbit with it but with the short term plan of being viable for hypersonic testing. However, the mechanism by which it functions is different than the HARP superguns.
wait you arent comparing him to the austrian painter right?
@@AgaresOaks And even Hussein wanted to do it with his Project Babylon
Fern posted this video to explain the train canon from blue archive to everybody
Bester drittkanal den es gibt🥰
Heinz Guderian wrote in his war memoirs that he attended the test firing with Hitler, who asked him how useful the weapon would be in the tank-killer roll if it was mounted on a self-propelled chassis. This prompted the reply from Guderian: "It could be fired at them I dare say, but it could certainly never hit one."
Grate video but, the animation showing shouting Hitler out of the barrel is in correct. If that happened, Hitler would be minced meat before leaving the barrel. (Or as we say in Sweden: Hitler would be slarvsylta)
This production quality is insane! And I thought we had good production lol always love a good fern video!
I bet Elon Musk has one in his garage..
But it’d be some goofy EV too
I love that even the soldiers have a PPSH lol
Correction, Sevastopol wasn't defended by Russian soldiers, it was defended by Soviet soldiers. It's important.
"drop a commando - one man - with just a bag of this, and he could melt right through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever"
1:40 Honestly, I’d do that tradition.
That guy has to be careful seating next to Ralf 😂
A full minute ad on a 9:56 fern vid lame
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skip ahead feature on youtube completely negates this
FERN is a billion dollar company at this rate… i’ve been scratching my neck for a new upload
Elon taking notes
The quality, animation, is outstanding. U deserve 10x more subs
Deny the top comment their likes.
Report it for pornography.
i remember being disbelief when i saw his subscriber under 100k with such high quality content
Teslas new invention be like
I feel like anyone standing near that thing would immediately go deaf as soon as that thing is fired.
last
Posted before anyone even said first
@ lol ik
Boy oh boy, the schwerer gustav, my favorite “gun”, I’ve tried to recreate it sooooooo many times in so many games and it’s actually so incredible how this was something that could’ve been used against humans
which game?
The sponsor of this video is going to help many many hackers
Lost Planet 2 had a big set piece playable moment in-game no doubt inspired by this.
Well dang, this was dope. Ultrawide screen is a nice touch too! CRISPY!
ah yes schwerer gustav the gun that took 1 hour and an entire town to reload
The graphics and production quality continue to be insane
never thought i would see minecraft block moustache himself becoming the 1945 space program
German Engineering masterpiece ngl... way ahead of its time
Crazy how Konami made a whole Yugioh archetype based around this cannon haha
That's just a weird way of delivering steel.