Or clean the barrel of fouling. To accomplish this they had a soldier don a suit of thick cotton layers, and he had to CRAWL down the barrel after each shot.
Yeah but the allies would have loved to have bombed that. Is technical as it was I bet you a bullet would throw off being able to shoot it. Imagine something getting stuck in the barrel lol.a bomb even go off near that thing and that would be one expensive pile of junk
Actually its cause of how the algorithm works, it allows the system to believe this is a video with a good hook for those not subbed to the channel already
Otherwise the system will scan the thumbnail and not really set it as anything in the system so it would only ever be suggest to people that are already subbed
Imagine constructing a piece of machinery so enormous that it requires its own two sets of special railroad tracks to be laid in front of it just to move and thinking: “I think I’ll name it after my wife.” I don’t think she took that very well..
@@seanc.5310 No I'm certain that I brought it in the house. Since I'm so short I remember pulling it out of the holster and the site hanging up on my boots and pissing me off.
Such a waste of resources that could have been used to build other things that would've made more sense, but then again it is Hitler we're talking about and all that meth and cocaine really destroyed his sense.
5:45 - "The first gun was free for the German army. The second one, commissioned along with it, had a price tag of 7 million Reichmarks." The ultimate "Buy One Get One Free" deal. ;)
i guess it depends on who you talk to and how they consider the supply chain. he is counting all the rail workers, contractors that make ammo, guy driving the truck etc etc. that the gun needs to be combat ready. i guess at least lol.
@@midship_nc most likely but thats not gow we estimate man power in other areas. How sailors needed for the air craft carrier? 80 thousand (including anyone that has any remote connection to it). How many does it take to operate the tank? 478 including everyone that has any connection. Etc...
@@Musicreach101 It's too overblown and exaggerated. Check out "Mark Felton Productions" if you want fair and square info, he has the best collection of war history documentaries. He does everything by himself. Trust me, you won't regret it. Here's one: ruclips.net/video/xnyw1h1jy58/видео.html
I remember when youtube made you start doing voice-overs on dark5 and people didn't like your voice. So you started this channel as a compromise. Look at you now, you have a network of 5 channels. You've come a long way man, and you're doing great job. I'm looking forward to all of the new content!
@@comradatarms I know this is a weird question, but are you like really into the weather? (p.s. this question has nothing to do with dark5's voice lol)
The Gustav was impressive, even awe-inspiring. On the other hand, it required a small army of maintenance and security personnel, its own separate railway tracks and beds, and its own separate security force. In other words, it was an incredibly expensive show of force that was problematical.
What are you talking about? Chuck Norris uses this to cut his toenails as it's the only thing (other than Chuck Norris) with enough power to do so. He'd do it himself but it's awkward trying to roundhouse kick your own toenail. Once Norris has cut the nail he files the edges with his beard.
It's so funny how everybody pretends Chuck Norris is some kind of hyper bad-ass these days when back in his day he was just considered another horrible actor with a sketchy low-end kickboxing background. OMG I still remember going to the movies to see Good Guys Wear Black; the acting was ATROCIOUS but you just couldn't help but like Chuck.
Ah yes the maginot line... much like "we're going on a bear hunt" "We cant go under it, we cant go over it, we cant go through it, we will have to go AROUND it!"
Iron Gustaf was, in fact, found in Kirkenthumbach, West Germany after the war. It became a popular curiosity for American troops stationed at nearby Grafenweher Traing Area to visit until it was destroyed.
The only information I had from residents in the area was that it was disassembled as far as it could before being cut up for high grade scrap. The only hint that it had ever been there was the railroad track bed.
There was one of the shells, I believe the 7 ton AP, at the ordinance museum located at Aberdeen Maryland. It was awe inspiring. The museum is now closed and many of the displays moved to Ft. Lee in Virginia. I visited that museum about about 8 years ago and it was disappointing. A pale comparison to Aberdeen. A museum worker said most of the exhibits were in storage or being worked on. Check before visiting.
Well, they're not wrong, I'm sure all the different variations of the ar-15 have claimed thousands, if not million's more lives than the Gustav. And ya know, CNN aren't the ones creating gun laws, that job belongs to the government, but you go ahead and keep hating the one thing (the media) that keeps the government from completely stripping you of your freedom's. I believe that is EXACTLY what your CULT LEADER'S want you to do. You know where Trump (Drumpf) got his MAGA idea from? Hitler also ran with the same platform as Trump, make Germany great again. Hitler also said "the media is your enemy", and like Drumpf, he also thought himself superior to everyone else, incapable of doing anything wrong, and thought he could do whatever he wants to. Though, Drumpf doesn't have nearly as high of a body count as Hitler did. He does have a body count though, and we're not even at war with anyone.
The "muzzle" of the gun is fairly away from the people loading it, so it's okay I guess, when compared to battleship guns this one isn't so different tbh
Part of the high cost of the ammunition was the fact that each shot created measurable wear in the lining of the barrel. So each shell could not be the same size. Each shell had to be just a hair bigger in diameter than the previous one, or escaping gases around the shell would compromise the accuracy of the gun. The shells were numbered and had to be fired in their specific order to maintain Schwerer Gustave’s accuracy.
bro i had a dream with this gun. so i basically out of nowhere i appeared in this military base and i saw this gun so fucking huge and soldiers were moving it and there was a railway for it. i mean it was like a 10 seconds dream and i dont remember anything after it
I’ve been waiting for a DD video on the Gustav!! It still amazes me the sheer size of that machine! It’s just something that in the 1940’s that struck fear into the hearts of its enemies that seen or heard of it especially those enemies from non industrialized nations. I’m sure to The US & UK it wasn’t a “frightful weapon” but to a place like France or Africa at that time yeah it’d be scary!
Scary? It's not a terror weapon, it's designed to crush fortifications...Which bombers do much better, and cheaper...I think you have WW1 and WW2 mixed up...
this specific weapon inspired many chapters in Yukito Kishiro manga Alita Battle Angel!! Den of Barjack tried taking down Tiphares (zalem in movie) with such a weapon! this is y we need alita sequel;)
“The only other other one used in battle was named Dora, after Erich Müller’s wife” Ah yes, the biggest mechanical artillery named after the biggest biological artillery
Isn't true, of course, that no lessons learned from the first world war? German Blitzkrieg? German jet fighters? V1 and V2 rocket? Should I give 100 more examples?
Where did dark docs come from ? I've never heard of it and it's amazing ! So amazing these videos you bring . Thank you so much for bringing this incredible history to our attention . Thank you
@kinganthony1984 at that point, were it a little longer and aimed slightly higher, the other end and the firing crew wouldn't be a different set of people.
@@TheRocketman136 the technology used from its development aided in many other things. Often times what seemed far fetched or beyond achievable is needed to prove these things could be done.
I find a "Desert Eagle" is good when a burglar is hiding behind your neighbors fridge. It's not the size of your gun, it's the potential load when it goes off.
"And lost." Meanwhile in some random used car lot, "We have all kinds of models, from a 1950's Mustang to this 1970's Pinto and that 1939 Gustav cannon." "Uh.....come again?" "Oh yeah, the largest cannon ever made and can still be used, all ready for a test drive." "I-.....don't think I should be here, this seems like- I don't even remember seeing any credentials in your office." "We got the shells all ready and loaded, and here's a map of it's range, and a big red arrow of where my bitch of an ex-wife is. Lets take her out- Er, the cannon that is, for a test drive." "I'm.....going to leave now."
As the guy quickly leaves he passes a tall guy in black whom strides into the office, face briefly hid by his Stetson hat and scarf, long duster coat flaps with the wind. “..Afternoon. I’m interested in taking the canon for a test drive...”
Tried to fix up a '71/2 MBZ 300 SEL 4.5 a $500 Cal garage queen with "A little" fire damage under the hood... shade tree mechanic.... Wound up driving a $500- 1969 Corona all over. Found a donor 300 in junkyard tried to splice on wiring harness, never got it to run. Got amnesia later, don't recall what happened. The quality construction was palpable, having previously wrenched on a friend's '72 MGB. The Toyota was quality enough parts & easy to work on. Drove back to Hawaii in it.
Dude it's rare for ANY channel to ALWAYS catch my eye and MAKE me click. Actually there are no others. Like I like many things but never really all aspects of it. I'm 100% for your channel. I could see myself donating in the future if I needed to in order to keep you producing
The siege of Sevastopol was an old school medieval type modern days siege, Sevastopol was the most guardered place on planet Earth and Mannstein oly had so many men under his command to take the crimea, he called in all the seemingly outdated siege weapons aka all the huge howitzers, mortars, and rail guns and artillery guns. These weapons broke soviet bunkers like nuts and saved many German lives and got Mannstein his Feld Marschall baton.
Yeah especially when the boss is on enough drugs to make an entire city high by itself. Guy was on oxycontin before it was called oxycontin morphine testosterone and methamphetamine. I bet you he had phlebitis and so many sore injection sites it would blow your mind. I bet He needed painkillers just to move
Haha, Grand Cannons are very nice, just not nearly as damage resistant as they should be, for 2000$ gun. I mean, 2 Dreadnought or 2 Kirov bombs can take it out, and they cost the same! It should take 6 atleast, so it actually can take some punishment.
Counterfactual thought: What if the Germans, having realized the gun was completely impractical (yet still scared the hell out of their enemies) had build a couple of cheap, non-working models of the gun to use as decoys to lure opposition aircraft into ambushes.
I wonder if the Gustav was George Lucas’s inspiration for the Death Star. Since there was a lot of resources allocated to one place rather than more “smaller” guns.
Can you imagine going home to the wife and saying "we've built the heaviest cannon every and I'm going to name it after you, my dear". I wonder if he slept on the couch that night.
"G.R.O.F.A.Z" must've just drooled over this thing! ( acronym for Hitler that the army loved to use- Grosser Feldherr Alte Zeiten....greatest senior general of all time. )
It is Gröfaz or GröFaZ. (Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten) Großer / grosser (Swiss Germans would write it that way, they don't have ß) just means big, great. Größter is the correct superlative. Alte Zeiten would mean old times. but ist should be all times. Making all letters capital and putting a period behind them would make it to an acronym made from 6 words but it is only four. And Germans tend to make now words out of acronyms which means that you also use same rules for it like it were common words. Another example Vokuhila (VOrne KUrz, HInten LAng: front short, back long) which discribes a mullet. I don't think that G.R.Ö.F.A.Z. was ever used by a German. And when you put periods behind every letter, you should not left out the last. ;-)
Your German pronunciation is improving with every video featuring the language. Good job! I've been to the location of the second destroyed gun in Germany. Unfortunately nothing remains of it. Would be interesting to witness that piece of history firsthand.
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0:34 500 were needed to fire it, and 4000 needed to operate it.
Can you imagine the squabble over who was gonna pull the trigger??
Or clean the barrel of fouling. To accomplish this they had a soldier don a suit of thick cotton layers, and he had to CRAWL down the barrel after each shot.
Peter Gray damn... i wonder how hot it was... maybe they waited for it to cool down? haha
Peter Gray cause that round is literally the size of a large couch... imagine the heat it generates
I think it was 2000 total to man it.
One seriously long game of Rock Paper Scissors
Shooting a 22,000 pound shell 23 miles is pretty impressive in 1944
9:17 that thing can shoot 118 miles?! 😟
Yeah but the allies would have loved to have bombed that. Is technical as it was I bet you a bullet would throw off being able to shoot it. Imagine something getting stuck in the barrel lol.a bomb even go off near that thing and that would be one expensive pile of junk
@@tylerw1418 I think that was the 2nd gen with a much smaller shell , still impressive.
Even in 2020 that kinda impressive
pretty sure the atomic bomb being dropped around the same time paled it in comparison
Perfect for concealed carry and home defense
even Lizzo couldn't conceal that thing in her bra
My thoughts exactly.
Can I get a 22. Cal barrel for training purpose?
Is it threaded barrel for a Knights armament suppressor??
"You'll take my schwerer Gustav from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."
Simultaneously the most impractical weapon of all time, and the coolest weapon of all time.
Great video by the way.
I wouldn't say it was the coolest, cool idea. This ideology Hitler had actually contributed to losing the war.
The perfect weapon for the "I got a bigger one" crew
@@I_dunno_man_but yeah man, also the way it rises up. What a strong heavy ding dong.
"It took five weeks to get it into position for combat." The Russians: "LOOK OUT! IT'S GRADUALLY COMING TOWARDS US!"
Russian mobilization: "those are rookie numbers"
It was the real life "Grond: Hammer of the Underworld"!
@@BatmanSeRiedeTi BRING OUT THE WOLF'S HEAD
It was still well over 100 miles away when they fired it
Yeah really
This concept was actually the future
See" rail gun "
Cheap ammo , more destruction per dollar
I love that they felt the need to put an arrow in the Thumbnail
I would have missed it otherwise.
...and a red one
Seems to be a theme in their thumbnails
Actually its cause of how the algorithm works, it allows the system to believe this is a video with a good hook for those not subbed to the channel already
Otherwise the system will scan the thumbnail and not really set it as anything in the system so it would only ever be suggest to people that are already subbed
Thanks for the red arrow pointing at the barrel of the largest weapon ever built so we wouldn't miss it
Oh, that was the gun?
Man, I never would've seen it without that red arrow.
I think the Paris Gun in WW1 was bigger.
Remember the days when we cats were worshipped? Those were the days....we shouldn’t have let them go.
@@Scruffy-LookingNerfHerder Paris gun was 238mm, Gustav was 800mm
“It was sent to Mirza and subsequently lost”
“”Lost””
Melted down and re-used, you mean.
GhostShipSupreme I know what you mean, they might have asked “. Now where did I leave that gun “. ?
Down the back of the sofa maybe.
Fast H Racing heh
Define "Lost"
Even breaking it up takes A LOT of heavy equipment.
Imagine constructing a piece of machinery so enormous that it requires its own two sets of special railroad tracks to be laid in front of it just to move and thinking: “I think I’ll name it after my wife.” I don’t think she took that very well..
duftmand 💀 damn
she was a nazi -- she prob. bathed in all its glory of being given such privilege.
"Dora the Exploder"
duftmand you never know, she may have demanded that it be named after her.
🤣 I was thinking the same,,
Hitler leaving for work: Honey do you know were I put my Gustav last night when I came in?
Have you checked between the seats on the Turpitz?
@@seanc.5310 No
I'm certain that I brought it in the house. Since I'm so short I remember pulling it out of the holster and the site hanging up on my boots and pissing me off.
Not big for "small hands" Hitler. His was forked like like the snake he was. Thank God no Hitler DNA is in the gene pool.
She dropped it onto the canal.
Welp, you tried...
Everyone: This was an insane piece of German engineering
Nazi Germany: Haha gun go boom
Robert Oppenhemier: _Hold my plutonium..._
Such a waste of resources that could have been used to build other things that would've made more sense, but then again it is Hitler we're talking about and all that meth and cocaine really destroyed his sense.
@@Aaron-rj7bv yes..daaamm ufos
insane is exactly the correct word for it. But then it was ordered by one of the most insane people to have ever lived.
Likely caused by the syphilis from all that... "posterior copulation".
well, I've heard it takes a village to raise a kid
and apparently, a midsize suburb to fire a gun in Germany...
a gun that hits 200 km away tho
Heavy Gustav and Heavy Gertrude had a baby named Howitzer.
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Dude, you‘re right.
5:45 - "The first gun was free for the German army. The second one, commissioned along with it, had a price tag of 7 million Reichmarks." The ultimate "Buy One Get One Free" deal. ;)
That statements over the top.
Every time I see a special on this rail cannon the people to operate it go up by a 1,000 🤣🤣🤣
You noticed that too, eh? :\
i guess it depends on who you talk to and how they consider the supply chain. he is counting all the rail workers, contractors that make ammo, guy driving the truck etc etc. that the gun needs to be combat ready. i guess at least lol.
@@midship_nc most likely but thats not gow we estimate man power in other areas. How sailors needed for the air craft carrier? 80 thousand (including anyone that has any remote connection to it). How many does it take to operate the tank? 478 including everyone that has any connection. Etc...
Don’t get me wrong this is the best documentary I’ve seen yet.
@@Musicreach101 It's too overblown and exaggerated. Check out "Mark Felton Productions" if you want fair and square info, he has the best collection of war history documentaries. He does everything by himself. Trust me, you won't regret it. Here's one: ruclips.net/video/xnyw1h1jy58/видео.html
I wish this thing had survived the war, imagine being able to walk on it or even see some wreckage of it
Is it completely destroyed? I cant imagine how you would destroy a huge piece of metal like the barrel
@@maxj9812 they most likely have blew it up
imagine the scrap metal brass is $2.85 lb right now, id be filthy rich hording all that brass and lead
There’s one standing in France near a museum. Check it out.
@@Lecruque It's not the gustav or dora, its a smaller gun, though there is a scaled model of it there.
I remember when youtube made you start doing voice-overs on dark5 and people didn't like your voice. So you started this channel as a compromise. Look at you now, you have a network of 5 channels. You've come a long way man, and you're doing great job. I'm looking forward to all of the new content!
Here I am struggling to put together one video per week for my channel and has that many lol
Always found his voice so relaxing!
I think he's only the narrator. I may be mistaken but I don't think he's the one putting these together.
@@thebonesaw..4634 talks way to fast whoever
@@comradatarms I know this is a weird question, but are you like really into the weather? (p.s. this question has nothing to do with dark5's voice lol)
The Gustav was impressive, even awe-inspiring. On the other hand, it required a small army of maintenance and security personnel, its own separate railway tracks and beds, and its own separate security force. In other words, it was an incredibly expensive show of force that was problematical.
"That thing alone should be a declaration of war!"
rwsthedemonking no it was a declaration of how smart hitler was
rwsthedemonking bruh I’m being sarcastic no shit that thing was a bad idea but u must admit it does look cool
@@blitz8260 You mean how DUMB, right? The gun had major flaws and shouldn't be built at all.
The salute overlayed on the rising gun barrel was a stroke of genius. Nice!
Holly crap! Its like shooting a friggin light tank at the enemy with every single shot!!!
Or 1/2 of the ordinance on a B-52
what do we use for ammo? that tank over there!
Its the equivalent of shooting a full modern usa m1 Abrahams
@@sddtyw_8623 no.....it's not....20,000 lbs per shot is not an Abrams tank... combat weight is 70,000lbs for Abrams...
@@sddtyw_8623 Ain´t that like 60 tons around 130000 pounds?
Krupp: "How far would you like it to shoot?"
Hitler: "JAAA!!"
Krupp: How hard do you want it to pound?
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Hitler: Satans Fist.
That's just Chuck Norris's handgun
What are you talking about? Chuck Norris uses this to cut his toenails as it's the only thing (other than Chuck Norris) with enough power to do so. He'd do it himself but it's awkward trying to roundhouse kick your own toenail. Once Norris has cut the nail he files the edges with his beard.
No, it _wishes_ it was Chuck Norris' handgun.
Chuck norris also killed one stone with two birds
Chuck Norris need no gun... He punches through 7m of armour plated concrete 👊
It's so funny how everybody pretends Chuck Norris is some kind of hyper bad-ass these days when back in his day he was just considered another horrible actor with a sketchy low-end kickboxing background. OMG I still remember going to the movies to see Good Guys Wear Black; the acting was ATROCIOUS but you just couldn't help but like Chuck.
A 20,000 pound bullet! It boggles my mind that a metal slug of such extreme weight can be thrown so accurately, so far away.
The sheer size of the gun alone is extremely impressive. Impressive and powerful, but extremely impractical.
Good doc, but at the beginning he stated that "it was bigger than any tank". That's one hell of an understatement! The thing was enormous!
French: "We have a Maginot Line that is impenetrable!"
Hitler: "Hold my beer"
*Bier
Not sure he drink beer? Hold my drug cocktail ....
@@unnamedchannel1237 Hitler: hold my bull semen
😆he used to take bull semen to improve his potency he lost one testicle after ww1
Let's just go around...
@@thokim84 you got the job sir proceed with your plan
“Take the Gustav to the far side of Endor. There it will wait for young Skywalker.”
“I’m afraid the Schwerer Gustav will be quite operational when your friends arrive”
Everybody a gangsta until Heavy Gustav pops a cap! 😂
Haha
And after taht, its now used by the Modecan army
Ah yes the maginot line... much like "we're going on a bear hunt"
"We cant go under it, we cant go over it, we cant go through it, we will have to go AROUND it!"
Thanks for the red arrow on the thumbnail, wouldn’t have spotted it otherwise, ya know it’s the biggest weapon system ever made after all
They should use even two arrows for better indication
@@mystusleucophasis6599 I would have preferred a red circle too.
And a shocked emoticon for emphasis 😱
Iron Gustaf was, in fact, found in Kirkenthumbach, West Germany after the war. It became a popular curiosity for American troops stationed at nearby Grafenweher Traing Area to visit until it was destroyed.
Why somebody would destroy such a astonishing peace of military equipment.
How was it destroyed??
The only information I had from residents in the area was that it was disassembled as far as it could before being cut up for high grade scrap. The only hint that it had ever been there was the railroad track bed.
There was one of the shells, I believe the 7 ton AP, at the ordinance museum located at Aberdeen Maryland. It was awe inspiring. The museum is now closed and many of the displays moved to Ft. Lee in Virginia. I visited that museum about about 8 years ago and it was disappointing. A pale comparison to Aberdeen. A museum worker said most of the exhibits were in storage or being worked on. Check before visiting.
I visited Aberdeen in Jan 1991 as everyone was being deployed. Great museum at the time….
Thanks for another great video and preserving history
CNN: the ar15 is stronger than the Gustav cannon
Well, they're not wrong, I'm sure all the different variations of the ar-15 have claimed thousands, if not million's more lives than the Gustav. And ya know, CNN aren't the ones creating gun laws, that job belongs to the government, but you go ahead and keep hating the one thing (the media) that keeps the government from completely stripping you of your freedom's. I believe that is EXACTLY what your CULT LEADER'S want you to do. You know where Trump (Drumpf) got his MAGA idea from? Hitler also ran with the same platform as Trump, make Germany great again. Hitler also said "the media is your enemy", and like Drumpf, he also thought himself superior to everyone else, incapable of doing anything wrong, and thought he could do whatever he wants to. Though, Drumpf doesn't have nearly as high of a body count as Hitler did. He does have a body count though, and we're not even at war with anyone.
@@herbsewell4995 That was kinda unnecessary but ok.
@@herbsewell4995 Orange Man Bad! Guns Bad!
@@Not_hunter_moeller idiot's like you are the reason we are going to lose our guns.
@@herbsewell4995 „and we‘re not even at war with anyone“ really?
- "How many calibers do u want my fuhrer"
- His fuhrer : "Yes"
how would the sound waves alone not just kill or injure anyone near it?
The "muzzle" of the gun is fairly away from the people loading it, so it's okay I guess, when compared to battleship guns this one isn't so different tbh
silencer
The crews evacuated to bunkers they dug nearby and fired it remotely
@@clipsedrag13 no such thing.... No weapon system is "silent" only ever suppressed.
Bear bacon Grills my claws are silent.
The USA talk to the German Wehrmacht: you will fucking with me? The german Wehrmacht: Yes, i do
12:13 -- How the hell do you manage to lose _THE LARGEST CANNON EVER MADE?_
It fell in the couch 🙄
It’s probably under the bed
Probably next to my car keys.
Stalin definitely had that shit melted down
Part of the high cost of the ammunition was the fact that each shot created measurable wear in the lining of the barrel. So each shell could not be the same size. Each shell had to be just a hair bigger in diameter than the previous one, or escaping gases around the shell would compromise the accuracy of the gun. The shells were numbered and had to be fired in their specific order to maintain Schwerer Gustave’s accuracy.
Gimli from LOTR "That still only counts as one" after Gustav blowing up an entire area.
Lol that was the funniest comment at all of them I've read
Dark docs guy is a beast. It’s almost like he comes out with videos in real time. Must not sleep.
Love the vids keep up the amazeing work
I couldn’t imagine standing next to this thing while it shot. 80+CM. That’s twice as big as Bismarck’s 38CM guns...
I've always seen images of this weapon but never knew what it was called. Thank you.
bro i had a dream with this gun. so i basically out of nowhere i appeared in this military base and i saw this gun so fucking huge and soldiers were moving it and there was a railway for it. i mean it was like a 10 seconds dream and i dont remember anything after it
I’ve been waiting for a DD video on the Gustav!! It still amazes me the sheer size of that machine! It’s just something that in the 1940’s that struck fear into the hearts of its enemies that seen or heard of it especially those enemies from non industrialized nations. I’m sure to The US & UK it wasn’t a “frightful weapon” but to a place like France or Africa at that time yeah it’d be scary!
Scary? It's not a terror weapon, it's designed to crush fortifications...Which bombers do much better, and cheaper...I think you have WW1 and WW2 mixed up...
They could fire it from Germany and hit Denver!
"There is no Heavy Gustav, the senate was informed the Maginot Line was destroyed in a mining disaster."
this specific weapon inspired many chapters in Yukito Kishiro manga Alita Battle Angel!!
Den of Barjack tried taking down Tiphares (zalem in movie) with such a weapon!
this is y we need alita sequel;)
Thats a cool movie. Didn't know that other stuff.
“The only other other one used in battle was named Dora, after Erich Müller’s wife”
Ah yes, the biggest mechanical artillery named after the biggest biological artillery
Love the comments.
In some ways, means and thinking the Germans refought the First War without learning all the lessons.
Yea alot of ther wonder weapons, while magnificent and awe inspiring, shows how they hadn't changed much in some ways
I think the Germans themselves actually learned a lot of lessons Hitler just did not let them use the information.
Isn't true, of course, that no lessons learned from the first world war?
German Blitzkrieg?
German jet fighters?
V1 and V2 rocket?
Should I give 100 more examples?
Great uploads recently guys! I'm loving the dark skies content too! I love learning about history in this format!
Where did dark docs come from ? I've never heard of it and it's amazing ! So amazing these videos you bring . Thank you so much for bringing this incredible history to our attention . Thank you
Allies: "It's not about the size, it's about how you use it."
Germans: "N E I N"
Heavy Gustav: I can destroy Everything!
Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs: Oh, really?
MK-III Fat man: *Allow me to introduce myself*
What about the upcoming super duper bomb👍😁
Any TV show probably would have stretched this amount of content to fit a 1 hour episode
It would be more awesome if you talk calmly and slowly.
Nah
The space button is probably broken
Itd be awesome if you posted better attention
I like the way he talks
Rap
How is this channel not the literal #1 channel on all of RUclips.
Go on, say "Sevastapol" again. I need a good laugh.
It’s hardly an unheard of siege yet he butchered the name. The number of youtube narrators that don’t check on pronunciations astounds me.
Person in munitions depot: “We are almost 100 feet under the ground nothing can damage us.”
Schwerer Gustav: “Hold my beer.”
Imagine a French train just having to stop cuz this monster is on the rail
RailS.. as in all of them
There is no French train... 🤣
This is one of those things which is so outlandish that if it weren't for proof of its existence you'd call BS.
Imagine being present as it it’s being shot off must’ve been an amazing sight.
@kinganthony1984 at that point, were it a little longer and aimed slightly higher, the other end and the firing crew wouldn't be a different set of people.
@kinganthony1984 I am too.
Yeah actually. Funny but, this thing being mostly useless and barely applied makes it historical, something that I believe very few had seen.
@pariag travers No, I'm saying eventually it'd just go around the earth and hit gustav again, it's a funny joke haha hyperbole.
@@TheRocketman136 the technology used from its development aided in many other things. Often times what seemed far fetched or beyond achievable is needed to prove these things could be done.
I find a "Desert Eagle" is good when a burglar is hiding behind your neighbors fridge. It's not the size of your gun, it's the potential load when it goes off.
"And lost."
Meanwhile in some random used car lot,
"We have all kinds of models, from a 1950's Mustang to this 1970's Pinto and that 1939 Gustav cannon."
"Uh.....come again?"
"Oh yeah, the largest cannon ever made and can still be used, all ready for a test drive."
"I-.....don't think I should be here, this seems like- I don't even remember seeing any credentials in your office."
"We got the shells all ready and loaded, and here's a map of it's range, and a big red arrow of where my bitch of an ex-wife is. Lets take her out- Er, the cannon that is, for a test drive."
"I'm.....going to leave now."
As the guy quickly leaves he passes a tall guy in black whom strides into the office, face briefly hid by his Stetson hat and scarf, long duster coat flaps with the wind. “..Afternoon. I’m interested in taking the canon for a test drive...”
*The salesman slaps the turret* "You can fit SOOO many shells into this thing!"
...most interesting and devastatingly poweful !!
Good documentary. Well paced. Well explained. THANKS!
It's weird Germans still haven't learned the problems of over engineering.
Hard to imagine the VW bus was the foreunner to this?
I have a friend who's half German, and he can't help but find the most complex solution to every problem.
@@slappy8941 if it works, it works...
Tried to fix up a '71/2 MBZ 300 SEL 4.5 a $500 Cal garage queen with "A little" fire damage under the hood... shade tree mechanic.... Wound up driving a $500- 1969 Corona all over. Found a donor 300 in junkyard tried to splice on wiring harness, never got it to run. Got amnesia later, don't recall what happened. The quality construction was palpable, having previously wrenched on a friend's '72 MGB. The Toyota was quality enough parts & easy to work on. Drove back to Hawaii in it.
@@tomfrazier1103 thats pretty cool, not much of a car guy but you make it sound interesting!
Dude it's rare for ANY channel to ALWAYS catch my eye and MAKE me click. Actually there are no others. Like I like many things but never really all aspects of it. I'm 100% for your channel. I could see myself donating in the future if I needed to in order to keep you producing
Albert Speer: Gun Go Boom!
German demolitions team 1945: it sure does!
The siege of Sevastopol was an old school medieval type modern days siege, Sevastopol was the most guardered place on planet Earth and Mannstein oly had so many men under his command to take the crimea, he called in all the seemingly outdated siege weapons aka all the huge howitzers, mortars, and rail guns and artillery guns. These weapons broke soviet bunkers like nuts and saved many German lives and got Mannstein his Feld Marschall baton.
This is what happened when everyone is too scared to tell their tyrant boss it's not possible.
Yeah especially when the boss is on enough drugs to make an entire city high by itself. Guy was on oxycontin before it was called oxycontin morphine testosterone and methamphetamine. I bet you he had phlebitis and so many sore injection sites it would blow your mind. I bet He needed painkillers just to move
"Quick! Over there! Target at 3 o' clock, 2.6km.!"
*"Ok..... Give us about 3 DAYS!"* 🤣
It’s absolutely amazing how all that effort and imagination could be rendered completely useless by a pair of commandos with a satchel of thermite.
I was thinking exactly that.
Great work on the videos, keep them coming.
They should have made a belt fed semi-auto version.
Pretty sure that was model C on the drawing board lol I wonder if hearing protection was even possible around something like that
Ok now I Have an idea
U know how the Abrams has a 120mm canon right well let’s make that canon 200mm but also A FULL AUTO MACHINE GUN
They should have put it on a boat so it was more quicker to position and aim
@@richievaldez3607 not sure if said boat would be able to carry it
@@richievaldez3607 If they rotated the barrel to the side, it might capsize the boat!
Bismarck: i dont need it
: i dont need it
: *I NEED IT*
The French saw this coming early on, and surrendered.
I've seen it in the Bundeswehr Museum! The size of the shell is staggering.
Okay, so this explains why France had the Grand Cannon in Yuri's Revenge. Yup, im that old!
Haha, Grand Cannons are very nice, just not nearly as damage resistant as they should be, for 2000$ gun. I mean, 2 Dreadnought or 2 Kirov bombs can take it out, and they cost the same! It should take 6 atleast, so it actually can take some punishment.
I love that game!!
about the age, you're not alone! haha
I love your damn videos!! You are one of the best on RUclips
Counterfactual thought: What if the Germans, having realized the gun was completely impractical (yet still scared the hell out of their enemies) had build a couple of cheap, non-working models of the gun to use as decoys to lure opposition aircraft into ambushes.
You should have been there dude
A decoy would have cost twice as much as the real one
@@darylcheshire1618 I mean not really
Since it's a decoy, they could build it out of wood.
@@solarfreak1107 there are some interesting stories about military decoys and wood...
Interesting and very informative documentary!! Thanks!!!
You're pronouncing "sevastopol" wrong. It's "sehvast-oh-phol" not "sevveystowple"
That's the largest anything I've ever seen on Railroad Tracks
I wonder if the Gustav was George Lucas’s inspiration for the Death Star. Since there was a lot of resources allocated to one place rather than more “smaller” guns.
A LOT of Star Wars was inspired by WW2 , George Grew up hearing all about the war , I’m sure
just the fact that this existed blows my mine, can't deny that
I suspect the wife not happy with the "Heavy Dora" and instead got them to name it "Dora the Explorer".
Can you imagine going home to the wife and saying "we've built the heaviest cannon every and I'm going to name it after you, my dear". I wonder if he slept on the couch that night.
Dude. Your channel never disappoints!
"G.R.O.F.A.Z" must've just drooled over this thing! ( acronym for Hitler that the army loved to use- Grosser Feldherr Alte Zeiten....greatest senior general of all time. )
..."WLTTUACDAH" (...Who lead them to utter and complete defeat and Humiliation.).
It is Gröfaz or GröFaZ. (Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten)
Großer / grosser (Swiss Germans would write it that way, they don't have ß) just means big, great. Größter is the correct superlative. Alte Zeiten would mean old times. but ist should be all times.
Making all letters capital and putting a period behind them would make it to an acronym made from 6 words but it is only four.
And Germans tend to make now words out of acronyms which means that you also use same rules for it like it were common words.
Another example Vokuhila (VOrne KUrz, HInten LAng: front short, back long) which discribes a mullet.
I don't think that G.R.Ö.F.A.Z. was ever used by a German. And when you put periods behind every letter, you should not left out the last. ;-)
Considering he was in love with the Tiger 1 when it appeared, he likely beat off to it when the Jagtiger got old....
Creepy lil austrian.
The fabrication and machining involved !!!
Mind blowing
The way you say Sevestapol makes me cringe bro
This channel NEVER disappoints! Great work - as usual. The high quality of these short documentaries is second to none.
5:19 Did my my guy just pronounce chassis, "Chassus" ???
Gazuntite lol
Thank you for teaching all of us about this gun, Mr White.
Your German pronunciation is improving with every video featuring the language. Good job!
I've been to the location of the second destroyed gun in Germany. Unfortunately nothing remains of it. Would be interesting to witness that piece of history firsthand.
Thanks for the arrow on the thumbnail slide. I would have been lost forever in confusion without it.
I’ll take two for my soon to be built retirement home. Some people like concrete animal statues or whatever else, I prefer two Gustav’s. 😈
A diabolically intense weapon.
Btw Heer is pronounced with a long e instead of ee, just fyi.