As long as they didn't broadcast their every move like donald duck then they shoulda been alright. Enemy wouldn't even know when it was gonna strike. If America had that weapon today, Donald would post six weeks in advance on facebook The target and everything😂
Indeed, would be a sight to behold and look at. I'd be happy to see one in person. Like its truly a good representation of Hitler's megalomania, but still it could be an impressive sight.
Germany is whom the USA have gained much of their knowledge. If HItler had not been in such a rush, declaring war on the USa, then invading Russia, biting off more than Germany could chew, I do question the outcome of WWII.
given it took building an entire station to use the thing, a better designation may be "pact of the rails" or something like that whitch covers multiple engines over just the main thing its self.
“Partisans thought the Germans were conducting excavation work with explosives.” Well, they weren't technically wrong. You could even say they were experimenting with ‘extremely long-ranged excavation ‘.
In a Gundam timeline of mine, early heavy artillery pieces operated by the Mobile Suits themselves use cannons of this caliber, as their equivalent to a 170mm howitzer, before the resizing happened, being a light mortar caliber, as a 800mm. The resize has their 75mm the size of 1,000mm.
It's crazy that this thing even existed in the first place. Just the amount of planning, engineering, manufacturing and logistics that went into this is mind boggling
In a way, you can thank the French, specifically their expertise in fortifications. Dora and it's "sister" gun were intended to bombard the fortresses of the Maginot Line. But they weren't ready in time. Their employment at Sevastopol and Warsaw were just attempts to make some sort of use out fo them.
You've said it. It is amazing that it existed in the first place. My brain finds it difficult to compute how it did. A bit like understanding the size of the Milky Way: I can't. German engineering taken to an extreme level of eccentricity.
I think the type XXI 'elektro-boat' submarine would be a far more interesting vid first though! I noticed it was still missing in his channel!! It's the forefather of all modern submarines, introduced and saw limited action in late worldwar2, incredibly technologically advanced, a real 'wunderwaffe' that could've turned the tide of war if introduced sooner and in larger numbers, etc etc.
@Jannfndnanakid I hope when you try to sleep tonight every single nightmare that you have ever had comes back into your mind over and over again until you pass out from exhaustion
When I was 14 I kinda was into modeling for a bit, and where I used to buy muy stuff there was one of this in display, I asked the owner if it was for sale, he say no, this one belongs to one of my clients, he build everithing from scratch, every single part and detail was made by him, in scale 1:35. the model was massive, and the guy who make it was a bodybuilder, a giant dude, painting little thins with his massive hands. And everything was made of real metal not plastic.
This brand of engineering is fascinating and likely never to be seen again. The notion of, “let’s take an object that basically already exists, but simply make it monstrously huge!”.
There is one shell from it in the British Imperial War Museum, in South London.. I took pictures of it; Pretty impressive! I read that only 48 rounds were fired from it..
@KanyolfWestler There were 2 finished prototypes of the Maus by late 1944 but got destroyed by the Germans when the war was ending, then reassembled together into a single Maus by the soviets and put into a museum. I do agree with you in how the chances of the Maus getting an "Inside of" video are very low, but low doesn't always mean none.
@KanyolfWestlerThere were two finished models, who were fully capable of driving. One had a mock turret to simulate the weight of the projected actual turret, and the other had a fully finished turret. The one with the finished turret was blown up by the retreating German Soldiers, so the Soviets took that turret and mounted it on the other chassis.
@shmenk I think yarn hub concentrates on animating historical battles while blue paw print concentrates on animating and showing the insides of military vehicles
Bei Krupp trug das erste Geschütz die Bezeichnung „Schwerer Gustav“, das baugleiche zweite die Bezeichnung „Schwerer Gustav 2“. Der Name „Dora“ entstand 1942 nur bei der Artillerie. Einfach nur heftig und gewaltig was die damals bauten 🤯🫣 Immer wieder gute Videos, danke 👍🏻👍🏻🤝
@JoeKing-_i_am_not_joking "Unsere Generationen" bauen bessere und komplexere Dinge (wie Computer, CAD, Taschenrechner). Vor allem BRAUCHT sie das nicht mehr hinbekommen. Das Teil war damals schon aus der Zeit gefallen.
@Avatar2312es geht mir um die Präzision und die Fertigkeiten es zu produzieren. Alleine das Rohr. Das zu gießen, spanen, die Züge und Felder zu schneiden, das riesige Gewinde zu schneiden, das zusammenzubauen, etc. Ich find es einfach Ultra beeindruckend, wie in dieser Zeit, in der alles am Reißbrett konstruiert wurde, in kurzer Zeit, ohne Simulieren zu können, ein Funktionierendes System zu entwickeln.
@ratanelectri For that matter, how can even one Planck constant be excused? There needs to be an antimatter version of their published video pre-loaded on my PC at all times
@neo2264 in these most important circumstances that we, both great intellectuals has been distance to coexist in, of this discussion of debate of us, the 2 greatest minds of this time have been encompassed I must take the initiative of the speaking of one Grace full talking point, as it has come to the attention of mine that you, my brother and fellow great mind of this time and intellectual, have taken my sentence of only commodity value and and proportional hilariousness, in the moments of far greater seriousness than it deserves I want to do I propose that you must take the action of self delusion from this bule pale dot that we call home.
God how much I love this channel. It’s a real shame we will never get the chance to see this magnificent piece of equipment in person. At least videos like this can at least give us an inkling of standing Schwerer Gustavs presence. Just a thought, but if you remember the B-17 ball turret video. Would you ever consider doing the remote control gun turret system on the B-29 bomber?
WWII US Bombers did some fantastic video deep dives into the B29 turret system, including showing how the aiming/gunsights were operated. Answered a lot of open questions I had about how they accomplished things like ranging.
Er hatte mehr als genug Erfolg,was soll das leere geseiere?Er hat die stärksten bunker geknackt was damals niemand konnte.Ein technische Meisterleistung.
The success you speak of does not match the staggering nanufacturing cost, the cost in manpower and time just to set it up and fire it. The barrel wore out too fast and the rapid loss of accuracy due to barrel wear is another problem. Changing out a barrel like that is a gargantuan task. All these things put together make for an unsuccessful artillery piece, like it or not.
Gustav was specifically built to counter French Maginot Lines and only two was built. And then the gun did not use fuel, planes and tanks do, so the conversion to build more stuff made little sense. Tanks and planes without fuel are even more useless.
Railway trains did not use gasoline that German tanks needed. Germans from in 1936 to 1940 conquests had been stockpiling diesel since German AFV all used petrol engine like Maybach.
@sthrich635 I'm aware the tanks didn't use diesel, its availability was limited. But, you said the gun didn't use fuel, you didn't specify, which is why I pointed out that it in fact used diesel, so my point still stands in spite of your moving of the goal post.
@Fett-ishSure, if you would like to go for such precision. The "fuel" in question was referring to the petrol fuel that common German tanks and planes shared, to bring out the overall point that the common myth it somehow could be transformed into a dozen of operable tanks or planes instead were false.
@sthrich635 That was about the money and how it could have been used in other ways that accomplished more, nice work moving the goal posts again though, quit while you're behind, it's getting embarrassing.
@Simon-vv3kl It is commonly asserted that Auschwitz utilized wooden doors in their gas chambers. Meanwhile, the Germans were out building stuff like this.
It has a lot to do with prestige and morale. Imagine the morale boost when shooting this thing and now imagine being on the receiving end, when you know this monstrosity is firing in your direction. And with being insanely deranged and mad.
The genesis was when Krupp was asked what size artillery would be necessary to destroy the forts of the Maginot Line. He said he thought 800mm would do the job and proceeded to develop the weapon on his own with no mandate from government authorities. When it was ready he presented it as a gift. Granted, by the time it was ready France had long since fallen.
Great Video but there is one fault: The barrel was not joint together by two parts of half length (like the later "Hochdruckpumpe" or the Bull-Guns). It was joint by inserting an thinner inner Barrel of full length (Seelenrohr) into a shorter, thicker tube (Mantelrohr). So the animation of building up oder down is also wrong. After the dismounting, there were plans to use a much longer smoothbore barrel and FSDS-Ammo to enlarge the reach. Not realized, but innovative concept.
Who the hell told you that nonsense? What absolute rubbish, you obviously know nothing about this gun. Sounds to me like you have just found ai, and now you're an expert on everything.
A pesar de sus limitaciones tácticas, arrasó Sebastopol. Debo agregar, que tienes razón en que fue un cañón de otra época, pero hay que tener en cuenta, que era lo más parecido a un misil de crucero moderno en cuanto capacidad de destrucción. Excelente trabajo.
Interesting fact, the armor piercing shell uses less propellant because it is heavier, so it takes more time before it moves inside the barrel, so less propellant is needed to reach the same peak pressure as the high explosive shell.
Nazi engineers was actually considering making a dual track railway throughout Europe so the inside would be double the height and width insane features like a 169 seat theatre carriage and even ones with a swimming pool ect
True but most likely it ejected out the front like most battleship cannons. Only thing i can think of since there sorta similar in the way of being huge cannons as well.
They have a 35th scale model kit of this and it’s expensive but it’s absolutely gorgeous and a huge kit. The Germans would try anything and we thank em for some of it
Probably making pretty level aiming curve, slow movement of the assembled gun and lots of jack pads to transfer recoil were all the precautions caused by this fact
Awesome video very informative! As a video suggestion, about an army confronted with same dilemma how to cross the River Rhine relatively close to each other at two totally different periods in history approximately 1, 889 years apart. When Julius Caesar and the Roman Army was standing on the eastern bank of the of Rhine and he was able to construct a semi permanent bridge in 10 days across the Rhine in 55 BC. Then in March of 1944 the US Army crossed the on the Ludendorff Bridge in which collapsed in the river. Afterwards army engineers erect a pontoon bridge. So that’s the dilemma how do you forge across the river? Obviously, technology isn’t always the answer. Thank you as always!
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Could you please cover the battle of Palmdale plz thx
Cxould you please do the tiger h1 next
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You have already done V2 and V3. Please, do one of the V1.
@mal-s1qno, it was destroyed to prevent its capture and later melted into scrap
"Sir, we need to evacuate"
"Immediately?"
"No, We have 6 to 8 weeks"
You better be damn sure that you are done by then though. :)
Good save.
So this is what put that hole in the ozone layer. Interesting.
@karaloop9544 Es war mit Sicherheit das überwältigendste Geschütz aller Zeiten. Aber auch das überflüssigste....🙂
As long as they didn't broadcast their every move like donald duck then they shoulda been alright. Enemy wouldn't even know when it was gonna strike. If America had that weapon today, Donald would post six weeks in advance on facebook The target and everything😂
Would have been so cool if this monster survived for a museum!
Indeed, would be a sight to behold and look at. I'd be happy to see one in person. Like its truly a good representation of Hitler's megalomania, but still it could be an impressive sight.
IT would be the museum. At the very least you would have to build a structure around it.
@timstapleman And if it had been shipped to USA and used as a museum: a food court, too.
@system64738And it would have to be branded, it would have to have a logo, merch etc
Money pit
the final boss of logisticans
no I don't even want to think of the logistics.
i mean there's railroads right there
Germany is whom the USA have gained much of their knowledge. If HItler had not been in such a rush, declaring war on the USa, then invading Russia, biting off more than Germany could chew, I do question the outcome of WWII.
@1963Austriamanhattan
@resigned7739 You need four parallel tracks...
Insanely beautiful animation
all because the Germans thought it up 80+ years ago ❤❤
@steviechampagne big ups to 18
"My name is David Webb and this is bluepawprint"
Always so nice to hear an actual person narrating the content.
Holy shit. That's Jason Bourne...
@dannyarcher6370 i was looking for this!! haha
@dannyarcher6370 "Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne " :D
@samserious1337 Good correction!
"How big would you like your gun?"
Germany: Yes
How impracticable do you want your gun?
Germany: Also, yes!
RUclips ahh comment
@CitrineCastle01 🤣
Best example yet of Hitler's overcompensation complex.
"How boring and unoriginal are your jokes?"
goingoutonmyshield2811: Yes
Gustav, the grumpy cousin of Thomas the Tank Engine.
😂😂
Now that I think about it, are there living trains outside of Sodor?
Waywayway grumpy yeah. Lol
given it took building an entire station to use the thing, a better designation may be "pact of the rails" or something like that whitch covers multiple engines over just the main thing its self.
Thomas's astranged veteran uncle currently living in Argentina with an undisclosed deployment and kill count.
“Partisans thought the Germans were conducting excavation work with explosives.”
Well, they weren't technically wrong. You could even say they were experimenting with ‘extremely long-ranged excavation ‘.
And simultaneously doing pyroclasty research on the ground underneath it
Just an archeological excavation
conducting excavation work with explosives on the enemys side
Engineer:"sir painter how big u want the canon to be?"
Painter:" ja"
The Mustache Man was right.👌🕊❤️
"Ja"
@john1-29_aka_LHT-LFAmb
0:29 Yeah nice gun but can we PLEASE talk about the amazing smoke and fire animation?!?
I thought I was the only one who noticed it . Very brilliant and lovely. I love this channel 😊
I noticed it too. The production of these videos always blows me away.
@mistac5050very lovely
Yeah nobody wants to talk about that with you buddy...
@SwampBadger229 You are proven wrong
Type of shit the Kriegers would field in Warhammer 40k
average Krieg wakeup call
Krieg artilleryman's wet dream, heretic's worst nightmare
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In a Gundam timeline of mine, early heavy artillery pieces operated by the Mobile Suits themselves use cannons of this caliber, as their equivalent to a 170mm howitzer, before the resizing happened, being a light mortar caliber, as a 800mm. The resize has their 75mm the size of 1,000mm.
They already are.
It's crazy that this thing even existed in the first place. Just the amount of planning, engineering, manufacturing and logistics that went into this is mind boggling
In a way, you can thank the French, specifically their expertise in fortifications. Dora and it's "sister" gun were intended to bombard the fortresses of the Maginot Line. But they weren't ready in time. Their employment at Sevastopol and Warsaw were just attempts to make some sort of use out fo them.
And all that in the 1940s is crazy to think about. Even today it would be really difficult and complicated to replicate it.
*mind goblin
@sparten6it would take so long today that the war would have ended by the time it was ready for operation.
You've said it. It is amazing that it existed in the first place. My brain finds it difficult to compute how it did. A bit like understanding the size of the Milky Way: I can't. German engineering taken to an extreme level of eccentricity.
Please do the Maus tank.
That would be awesome yarn hub did the maus tank
I think the type XXI 'elektro-boat' submarine would be a far more interesting vid first though! I noticed it was still missing in his channel!!
It's the forefather of all modern submarines, introduced and saw limited action in late worldwar2, incredibly technologically advanced, a real 'wunderwaffe' that could've turned the tide of war if introduced sooner and in larger numbers, etc etc.
Thanks I didn’t know 🤔.
Theoretical landcruiser
@D@DeDignity yeah no, the Germans were always going to lose, please stop lying
"Hans, ve need ein railgun"
"Jawohl, mein Führer! Hier!"
"Nein! Not like zat!"
😆👌
and why not ? Prestige Level over 9000
One of the Guns of Navarone.
Former field artillery officer here. This video will be shown in gunnery classes at Ft Sill. Nicely done
Nobody cares
@Jannfndnanakid You're an edgy bitter beta 😄
@Jannfndnanakid I hope when you try to sleep tonight every single nightmare that you have ever had comes back into your mind over and over again until you pass out from exhaustion
@Jannfndnanakidthen dont respond
@Jannfndnanakid sybau
I’d like to build a 1 to 1 scale model of this in my garden, think my neighbours would love it
When I was 14 I kinda was into modeling for a bit, and where I used to buy muy stuff there was one of this in display, I asked the owner if it was for sale, he say no, this one belongs to one of my clients, he build everithing from scratch, every single part and detail was made by him, in scale 1:35. the model was massive, and the guy who make it was a bodybuilder, a giant dude, painting little thins with his massive hands. And everything was made of real metal not plastic.
😂
I would just start building one pointing right back at ya!
@Idrinklight444don’t be so aggressive
Some guy in England built one out of wood in 1:8 scale so he could play with his action figures on it.
This brand of engineering is fascinating and likely never to be seen again. The notion of, “let’s take an object that basically already exists, but simply make it monstrously huge!”.
Tankers and other civilian transports, as big as they can be in the name of profit.
@shadowmharsal6285 yes, maritime may be the one exception we haven’t seen the end of. Or space vessels.
@shadowmharsal6285 Cargo ships need to be able to traverse canals and enter ports.
@toolbaggers They are still masive, the biggest vehicles ever built
-The gun was meant to destroy French Maginot ine fortifications.
-and it would’ve been succeeded at the job
die mängel hätten die bestimmt bei erfolge bei weiterendwickelung abgestellt,es war eben das erste megageschütz und war lange nicht ausgereift
Unimaginably impractical, but unequivocally an engineering marvel.
I don't know what country the writer is from but measuring in Sherman tanks is the most American thing I've ever seen
Idk if it's a American thing but it surely is FOR Americans 😂
WTF IS KILOMETER
Agree that hit me as a great measure. After wondering wow using tanks in perspective. Im subscribing today.
I think it's better than measuring in banana 😁
I thought exactly the same thing lol
He’s from Great Britain 🇬🇧
Recently visited the military museum in Dresden, where they have one of the projectiles. It's mindbending
Given how massive they are, they probably bend spacetime more
Definitely mind blowing
There is one shell from it in the British Imperial War Museum, in South London.. I took pictures of it; Pretty impressive! I read that only 48 rounds were fired from it..
@donr2176wait there is? I didn't see it when I visited
@csr7080 It was on the ground floor. Maybe it has been moved. Hard to miss it as it is about 12 feet tall, and 32" in diameter!!
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Even if it wasnt a success in a stratigic sense, it still is a marvel of engineering.
I hope one day we get to see an "Inside the Maus" video
most likeley not because there was never a finished version build.
@KanyolfWestler There were 2 finished prototypes of the Maus by late 1944 but got destroyed by the Germans when the war was ending, then reassembled together into a single Maus by the soviets and put into a museum.
I do agree with you in how the chances of the Maus getting an "Inside of" video are very low, but low doesn't always mean none.
@UJUOKGYYU7thats not true. there was a wooden model only. i am from germany
@UJUOKGYYU7 the soviets assembled one but it was from scrap parts without building plan
@KanyolfWestlerThere were two finished models, who were fully capable of driving. One had a mock turret to simulate the weight of the projected actual turret, and the other had a fully finished turret. The one with the finished turret was blown up by the retreating German Soldiers, so the Soviets took that turret and mounted it on the other chassis.
great video yarn hub, keep up the great work
Yeah what's the deal with that lol they both also advertise Brass Rain
@shmenk I think yarn hub concentrates on animating historical battles
while blue paw print concentrates on animating and showing the insides of military vehicles
@shmenk the same reason gaming youtubers have different channels
@shmenk while writing the comment i legitamently thought this was a yarnhub video lol.
Yarn hub is trash, this is actually historical.
Krupp 1943: Crater Maker
Krupp 2026: Coffee Maker
Brother, its KRUPS Coffee machines not KRUPP. Two completely different companies. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
@patrick.batemanNY Awwww. You just made loading the coffee maker much less fun now.
@kentnebergall3156 plus now i gotta return my 6 ton coffee cartridges!
Imagine walking on a sunny day and seeing a double decker bus fly above you at almost 1kms per second
This would make a great big gun hidden in the side of a mountain
Bei Krupp trug das erste Geschütz die Bezeichnung „Schwerer Gustav“, das baugleiche zweite die Bezeichnung „Schwerer Gustav 2“.
Der Name „Dora“ entstand 1942 nur bei der Artillerie.
Einfach nur heftig und gewaltig was die damals bauten 🤯🫣
Immer wieder gute Videos, danke 👍🏻👍🏻🤝
Ohne Computer, CAD, Taschenrechner etc.
Unsere Generationen würden das nie mehr hinbekommen
Thanks for that.
@JoeKing-_i_am_not_joking "Unsere Generationen" bauen bessere und komplexere Dinge (wie Computer, CAD, Taschenrechner). Vor allem BRAUCHT sie das nicht mehr hinbekommen. Das Teil war damals schon aus der Zeit gefallen.
@JoeKing-_i_am_not_joking das denke ich auch
@Avatar2312es geht mir um die Präzision und die Fertigkeiten es zu produzieren.
Alleine das Rohr. Das zu gießen, spanen, die Züge und Felder zu schneiden, das riesige Gewinde zu schneiden, das zusammenzubauen, etc.
Ich find es einfach Ultra beeindruckend, wie in dieser Zeit, in der alles am Reißbrett konstruiert wurde, in kurzer Zeit, ohne Simulieren zu können, ein Funktionierendes System zu entwickeln.
How could RUclips hide this video from me for four whole seconds?
How can you tube dare hide it for 29 minutes
How RUclips hide this comment for me for 0.77777767 microseconds?
@ratanelectri For that matter, how can even one Planck constant be excused? There needs to be an antimatter version of their published video pre-loaded on my PC at all times
@neo2264 in these most important circumstances that we, both great intellectuals has been distance to coexist in, of this discussion of debate of us, the 2 greatest minds of this time have been encompassed I must take the initiative of the speaking of one Grace full talking point, as it has come to the attention of mine that you, my brother and fellow great mind of this time and intellectual, have taken my sentence of only commodity value and and proportional hilariousness, in the moments of far greater seriousness than it deserves I want to do I propose that you must take the action of self delusion from this bule pale dot that we call home.
2:46 minecart and powered rail sound
Dude, the amount of money I would give to just SEE this behemoth with my own eyes is unreal
my favorite rail cannon
God how much I love this channel. It’s a real shame we will never get the chance to see this magnificent piece of equipment in person. At least videos like this can at least give us an inkling of standing Schwerer Gustavs presence.
Just a thought, but if you remember the B-17 ball turret video. Would you ever consider doing the remote control gun turret system on the B-29 bomber?
WWII US Bombers did some fantastic video deep dives into the B29 turret system, including showing how the aiming/gunsights were operated. Answered a lot of open questions I had about how they accomplished things like ranging.
There's a museum (now I don't remember if it's UK or Germany) where they have a Gustav shell sitting there
Imagine the 🧃 saying they made the doors out of wood with handles from the inside in the Chambers lol
@SimonSenaviev En el Museo Imperial de Guerra de Londres hay un proyectil .👋
@IIXxSLAYERxXII Who's an edgy boy? Oh who's an edgy little boy? Yes you are! you're an edgy boy!!
Calm and cinematic BluePawPrint style
14:15 or about a loaf of bread, 10 years earlier. 😂
“Finding a railway gun that doesn’t exist” -Allied soldiers after WWII
Absolutely an insane feat of engineering.
Er hatte mehr als genug Erfolg,was soll das leere geseiere?Er hat die stärksten bunker geknackt was damals niemand konnte.Ein technische Meisterleistung.
The success you speak of does not match the staggering nanufacturing cost, the cost in manpower and time just to set it up and fire it. The barrel wore out too fast and the rapid loss of accuracy due to barrel wear is another problem. Changing out a barrel like that is a gargantuan task. All these things put together make for an unsuccessful artillery piece, like it or not.
Ohhhh yes, if it's not the best video they could release. Well done guys you are champions. 10/10
Gustav was specifically built to counter French Maginot Lines and only two was built.
And then the gun did not use fuel, planes and tanks do, so the conversion to build more stuff made little sense. Tanks and planes without fuel are even more useless.
Which part of diesel confuses you good sir? 🤣
Railway trains did not use gasoline that German tanks needed. Germans from in 1936 to 1940 conquests had been stockpiling diesel since German AFV all used petrol engine like Maybach.
@sthrich635 I'm aware the tanks didn't use diesel, its availability was limited. But, you said the gun didn't use fuel, you didn't specify, which is why I pointed out that it in fact used diesel, so my point still stands in spite of your moving of the goal post.
@Fett-ishSure, if you would like to go for such precision. The "fuel" in question was referring to the petrol fuel that common German tanks and planes shared, to bring out the overall point that the common myth it somehow could be transformed into a dozen of operable tanks or planes instead were false.
@sthrich635 That was about the money and how it could have been used in other ways that accomplished more, nice work moving the goal posts again though, quit while you're behind, it's getting embarrassing.
Saw one of thode shells in a german museum: its truly massive and it's insane it could actually be fired through a barrel
This brings back memories playing cod on the ps2
0:50 devastator transformation in the background. 😮
I love your videos, OUTSTANDING! As always!
oh boy, this is gonna be a banger
Wow dora is now a destroyer before an explorer, What a jaw dropping change
Looks like the pre-rocket pinnacle of the technology of the day.
Thank you for an extraordinary mini documentary. The detail and information is superb.
These videos are so damn impressive. Keep up the good work.
I see big azz cannon, I click.
Oh man i wish i could feel that live
I got no words.
Das Paris Geschütz aus dem 1.WK war auch interessant!
There was a series of them and they were called Big Bertha.
12:00 yes, they were conducting the Soviet’s excavation work for them remotely
XDDD
This is a good example of bigger isn't always better
Its better than your artillery of the same age. You are fullOfSheet.
On one hand, big gun. On the other hand, logistics
Now we need the Karl Gerat
Imagine thinking these people used wooden doors.
hm? what are you playing at?
@Simon-vv3kl It is commonly asserted that Auschwitz utilized wooden doors in their gas chambers. Meanwhile, the Germans were out building stuff like this.
Amazing video. Thanks for making this 👏
Blue paw print is perfection
This feels like something a WW1 engineer was told was too impractical and expensive, so he had to wait 20 years to make it real.
The lack of comparisons to football statiums and olympic swimming pools is noted with great appreciation.
How could anyone think that a weapon this size would be remotely sustainable in prolonged combat?
It has a lot to do with prestige and morale.
Imagine the morale boost when shooting this thing and now imagine being on the receiving end, when you know this monstrosity is firing in your direction.
And with being insanely deranged and mad.
The genesis was when Krupp was asked what size artillery would be necessary to destroy the forts of the Maginot Line. He said he thought 800mm would do the job and proceeded to develop the weapon on his own with no mandate from government authorities. When it was ready he presented it as a gift. Granted, by the time it was ready France had long since fallen.
Womp womp
Oh boy a new video. Can’t wait to see what comes next
ah yes my favorite way to measure lenght M4 shermans
*Height
@marcel151ı mean he uses it both ways
My best bicycling record on 1 day is 10,666 M4 Shermans
@BRXCK3T good job
That's crazy - "The Heavy Gustav" was my nickname in high school.
I find it hard to believe this thing actually existed. Or that someone was crazy enough to build it.
Great Video but there is one fault: The barrel was not joint together by two parts of half length (like the later "Hochdruckpumpe" or the Bull-Guns). It was joint by inserting an thinner inner Barrel of full length (Seelenrohr) into a shorter, thicker tube (Mantelrohr). So the animation of building up oder down is also wrong.
After the dismounting, there were plans to use a much longer smoothbore barrel and FSDS-Ammo to enlarge the reach. Not realized, but innovative concept.
Who the hell told you that nonsense? What absolute rubbish, you obviously know nothing about this gun. Sounds to me like you have just found ai, and now you're an expert on everything.
Awesome vídeo as usual!
Thank you!
Wallpaper at 0:53
I wish l could have watched this with my Dad! Thank you!
'This is my rifle this is my gun'
A pesar de sus limitaciones tácticas, arrasó Sebastopol. Debo agregar, que tienes razón en que fue un cañón de otra época, pero hay que tener en cuenta, que era lo más parecido a un misil de crucero moderno en cuanto capacidad de destrucción. Excelente trabajo.
XD
Thing was nuts
С нетерпением жду каждое следующее видео. Спасибо. 👍
Interesting fact, the armor piercing shell uses less propellant because it is heavier, so it takes more time before it moves inside the barrel, so less propellant is needed to reach the same peak pressure as the high explosive shell.
Such a juicy target for any aircraft 😢
I'd love to see a video on missiles! Perhaps the sidewinders?
I've never seen an object requiring TWO side by side sets of railroad tracks
Harbor cranes!
@misterpotato427 True, but in their case it is to provide stability. Here it is due to the insane weight.
some rocket launchpads have that iirc
And you can never say that again…
Nazi engineers was actually considering making a dual track railway throughout Europe so the inside would be double the height and width insane features like a 169 seat theatre carriage and even ones with a swimming pool ect
Saying that after firing the shell was pulled out is skipping a whole lot of steps. How in the hell did they get the spent cartridge out of there?
True but most likely it ejected out the front like most battleship cannons. Only thing i can think of since there sorta similar in the way of being huge cannons as well.
YES!!! I’ve been wanting this video for a long time, thank you.
All these numbers and comparisons still don't put into perspective how massive this structure was. It's absolutely ridiculous.
This looks like something straight out of Valkyria Chronicles
Dora the Exterminator 😳
Took six weeks to set up a firing position? Dang, with that much time, I could pick up my target, pack it up, and move.
They have a 35th scale model kit of this and it’s expensive but it’s absolutely gorgeous and a huge kit. The Germans would try anything and we thank em for some of it
Who's we ?
One thing you didn’t mention. Two were made, only one was actually up and running, the second was destroyed during the construction
Saw the shell for this gun in the Imperial War museum. I am 6 feet tall and it was twice my height. An absolute monster munition.
on 4:08 the loading elavator is floating in the air, that is some interesting german engineering
@3:10 This means 33+ tonnes per axle which is quite high even for today's standards.
Probably making pretty level aiming curve, slow movement of the assembled gun and lots of jack pads to transfer recoil were all the precautions caused by this fact
Awesome video very informative!
As a video suggestion, about an army confronted with same dilemma how to cross the River Rhine relatively close to each other at two totally different periods in history approximately 1, 889 years apart. When Julius Caesar and the Roman Army was standing on the eastern bank of the of Rhine and he was able to construct a semi permanent bridge in 10 days across the Rhine in 55 BC. Then in March of 1944 the US Army crossed the on the Ludendorff Bridge in which collapsed in the river. Afterwards army engineers erect a pontoon bridge. So that’s the dilemma how do you forge across the river? Obviously, technology isn’t always the answer.
Thank you as always!
This quality on a video about a German U-boat would be a dream.
Muchas gracias por vuestros excelentes videos
Memories of playing Lost Planet 2. Good times.
5:19 that is the projectile not the shell. Awesome video though, I’ve always known about this thing but hearing the dimensions is just insane!
I'm pretty sure that's the shell mate
It is an artillery shell, of the non self contained variety. With the propellant behind.
Projectile , something solid that has explosive bull crap in it , that's a shell
Thats the Iron horse right there
this totally reminded me of Metal Slug 6 boss 2