And still alive :) In North Norway at Bø in Nordland it was 3 Adolf Gunners at a big fort.Now the fort are a museum but the Guns are not there.The fort name is : Bateri Dietl.This fort is wery big,to protect the city of Narvik.The 3 guns there was not jused in ww2 in action,only test shots.Strange or no? ...If you are near Bodø in holidays,go little north to Steigen,Engeløya.There this place are.The Canon in this video are in South of Norway in Kristiansand.
@klenoth one gun that is available to sightsee is Barbara cannon (Trondenes fort), 350 tones of weight (weight of the turret), and around 80 people to make it operational :P
that can survive another 100 yaer if they kept it in good conditions and grease it and it necesary to fire 1/3 shots in one year to clean the inside of canon and relax/release the springs of recoil
looked better when i was in the military in the 90's the gun barrel is 158664 kg and the recoil pressure is 580 000 kg the Projectile is 1024 and 600 kg+- a few kilo, the Projectile flight time is about 2,1min, and the highest hight is about 22 km and fire radius is 56km @ 600 kg shell :-) a big gun
@@georgivanev7466 It depends on the angle of attack, the material of armour, the type of shell used. I guess it could penetrate up to 1 or 2, maybe 3 metres of reinforced concrete, but I don't know for sure.
More like German OVER engineering at its finest. Theirs a reason the rest of the world wasn't building this large of costal guns. Unless this thing happens to be in the right spot and doesn't get hit with air artillery it going to be a very large burning pile of rubel
This is 406mm SKC/34 L/52, that had to operated and used by H-class battleships, including H39, H40A, H40B. But... as we know, those battleships was scrapped and we see how his germanian 16" inch / 406mm guns was used. Tbh I was supprised to see still working one
Two battleships of the "H39" design were laid down, but work was soon halted because they weren't far along and materials were needed elsewhere. These battleships were essentially like enlarged Bismarck-class and would have 8 16 inch guns. Several of the guns were built for these two particular battleships and these are the guns which were repurposed for coastal artillery, as we see in the video. I'm not trying to disagree with you, just adding a bit more context, as I believe it is noteworthy to add this information, since there were only ever two battleships of the entire so-called H-series ever laid down, with the other bigger designs never being laid down. Although, if I remember correctly, not even all 16 of these guns needed for the two battleships were produced because the construction of the ships was suspended and then cancelled before all the guns were built.
@@coolboi1232 no no, the bismarck and tirpitz had 15 inch or 380mm guns, the next battleship class (the H39 ehich were never completed, as I said) were supposed to have 16 inch or 406mm guns. And some of these guns were completed, but the ships themselves were scrapped, so these guns were used in coastal defense. I suppose you misunderstood my sentence saying these ships were enlarged bismarck class, here I was referring to the H39 class which were in essence supposed to be very similar to the bismarck class, but larger.
To think these where on WW2 war ships, may be even more insane though. And these guns had 5-10 floors with people and walkways and railways and bunkers, to actually run them. On a ship it's not difficult, it's what they are designed for. On land, well. No wonder the mountains and hills are hollowed out all along the coast from Norway to France.
@@krimke881 Yep, these guns were the ones built for the two H39 class battleships then under construction in Germany, but since the battleships were cancelled and some of the guns were already built, they repurposed them as coastal artillery.
What I love on old tech, is that in case of war, it is still being used. In WW1, weapons from 1870s were being used. In WW2 many pieces from WW1 were used. Same in Vietnam, wars in orient or so. In Ukraine, they used old T-34s. In Africa, they rebuilt T-34s to carry howitzers. Mosin-Nagants and Ppsh are used worldwide, as ammo is abundant and these weapons will always shoot. Or American classics, like 1911 or M2. Imagine it, in year 2021, we are still killing each other with 100 or more years old weapons. There is artifical inteligence, precise sattelites or god-damn drones, but we still use weapons made in ages of steam and horses. And I bet if there will be some major war and weapons will be scarce, pieces from museum will still see some good use.
I've done some service work on it, such as painting and looking over it as a summer vacancy job, such an interesting well kept piece of engineering, i actually live just a few kilometers from this gun, it really does function well after all those years, as a matter of fact it is in firing condition, so they could fire it.
@@maggs131 Two main reasons i believe, one is the availability and laws & regulations surrounding the charge that would be used, but the biggest concern would be the shear shockwave generated would blow out the windows of surrounding buildings, the cannons was supposedly tested by the Norwegian forces back in the early 50s or so, they fired one round and they blew people's windows several hundred meters away, caused a massive lean up operation.
@@HansensUniverseT-A Norwegians are serious people, I experienced while visiting norge in 2002, but in case of wanting some fun..., they become melting glaciers 😆 Listen to some darkthrone stuff and blow out the damn windows! 😂
It's fascinating and scary how advanced the Germans were in ww2. The fact that only a few fluke moments in history prevented them from creating nuclear weapons is haunting..
There is a lot of things that survived the war but have been scrapped or lost (or nuked if your the U.S) and it’s good to see there is still some things that have survived time and still work today!
@@coolboi1232 no, Bismarck's guns were 380mm (15 inch) while the guns from the pic are 406mm (16inch), the same caliber as the Iowa class battleship from the US navy
last shot fired was in 1957 i think, the operating manpower was 68 souls for each gun, and the bullet or shell velosity was 810 m\s for the heavy shells and 1050 m\s for the lighter adolf shell , the hatches at the back is for the rear support of the gun, and the 2 elevators lifting the ammo, the gun is supported by a track + there are 2 more rails for a gun create(waggon) for faster transport and loading, as there was only 4 plases to get the shells out into the back of the bunker.the squere chanel going down on the right side of the turret is a gravety operated elevator to remove the hot used cartridge.
Imagine being on a naval vessel, just chilling watching the shore defense being destroyed by ur ships cannons. Then out of the smoke, you notice something odd. A giant barrel just calmly aiming at your soul 💀
Gotta love that Teutonic engineering!!! Man. They built that thing to last. No squeaks, no scraping noises. Just the sound of the drive motor running down in the turret pit. Looks good too!!!
A large coastal defense piece, but not the largest. The US had multiple batteries of guns that were of comparable size if not slightly larger. I will however concede that this is the largest coastal defense gun still in place. One of the surviving examples of the American guns is on display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
@@preude1American 16"/50 Mark 2 (410mm) was originally intended for the South Dakota class battleships, but due to treaties at the time the remaining cannons were used as coastal artillery You used to be able to see it in San Francisco. Today, I'm not sure if it's still there.
Bit of a tactical error having the track exposed like that. A single direct hit on that would have disabled the whole gun. A single member of the resistance with a coffee cup of thermite could have done the same damage.
There are many 16" guns on battleships of the WWII era -- so the engineering for these coastal guns is no big deal. Two Japanese battleships had 18"+ guns, which were even more amazing.
Yeah due to britains spy network, that's not even the biggest gun, germanys gun could fire from it's coast directly into britain, it's just that the brits were so smart and roleplayed over radio that after each shot they got hit so the germans never adjusted their shots thinking they allready were perfectly on targed altho they just shortly hit infron of the british coast. ... Smart MFs. Well let's just say they were lucky drones were no thing back then.
I want one of these in my garden so I can protect myself against evil deer eating my strawberry plants. It could also make my neighbour think twice before he cut the hedge down to one meter in length and preventing sales people from entering my yard. It might even reach Stockholm from here, I really want one of these its simply a wounderful thing to have.
Fun Fact for those that don't wanna read the entire description lmao: These were originally meant for German Battleships. In particular, new ones after the legendary Bismarck and Tirpitz. Only 3 of these guns were ever produced.
Iva a ser uno de los cañones del h-39 que se canceló para primar la fabricación de submarinos,los cañones ya fabricados se repartieron por las costas de zonas ocupadas como defensas costeras,plan z .hubieran sido acorazados monstruosos.
These types of guns seem to have gone obsolete around 1968 or so. Anti ship missiles and all that. I don't know if there was an anti gun emplacement missile around that time.
I would have love to see a old gun like this fire again ... but at the same time, i know you would have to start up a factory to cast a new pipe to start with. I wonder how these old pipes age? With that massive pipe could it be prone to bend a little by just sitting there for years and therefore not be able to fire safely?
Well, the US Navy was firing 16" Naval Guns very similar to this one into the 1990's - so I don't really think that "Barrel Droop" is an issue - remember, these these are not simple pipes, but are engineered to remain precisely accurate while withstanding the massive firing pressures required to propel the projectiles.
@@theblackbear211 oh ok. Maybe modern pipes could last longer? Or there was a big storage of pipes left overs and they just stored and reused old stock? Well im no master in knowledge about it, just hobby interest in the facinating boats of WWII. But to my understanding, in WWII the ship pipes would need to be change freq. because everytime they fired, massive amount of metall and excessive amount of heat would make the pipe flex (Japan and USA fired big heave ass shells) , so accurancy was always a issue. Meaning, in my humble understanding, that there had to be a steady supply of pipes produced as you could only fire a gun ex amount time before i new pipe had to be fitted? (sorry if im not making sence, at work and english second language) 😊
@@IsopropylRecordings You are correct about the gun barrels wearing with use. Each time a shell is fired it did wear the barrel. So yes, spare barrels were manufactured for these guns - and Naval shipyards had the capability of relining and reboring the old barrels back to specifications - so they could then be re-used. But, I am unaware of any tendency for an unused gun barrel to develop alignment problems. I do know that one of the key issues that the US was running into in operating these weapons was that all the powder charges dated from before 1950... so there was a question mark as to how long this powder would remain reliable.
I can't believe it still is operational like that.
And still alive :) In North Norway at Bø in Nordland it was 3 Adolf Gunners at a big fort.Now the fort are a museum but the Guns are not there.The fort name is : Bateri Dietl.This fort is wery big,to protect the city of Narvik.The 3 guns there was not jused in ww2 in action,only test shots.Strange or no? ...If you are near Bodø in holidays,go little north to Steigen,Engeløya.There this place are.The Canon in this video are in South of Norway in Kristiansand.
Is it bigger than the one in Kristiansand?
Its a bigger caliber but not sure in size
@klenoth one gun that is available to sightsee is Barbara cannon (Trondenes fort), 350 tones of weight (weight of the turret), and around 80 people to make it operational :P
@klenoth First time adolfkannone was placed on Hel on polish theritory, till today u have ground structures for it.
Been there 5 6 times
"How many Germans does it take to put a light bulb in the ceiling?" "One. We are the best at engineering and humorless."
The shortest book ever written is the german book of humour
А она вообще существует?
@@СломаннаяШея it should:-)
How many Americans does it take?
Depends if there's an audience
@@mjautilusmjauritzen4078 the longest
I'M AFRAID THE ADOLFKANNON WILL BE QUITE OPERATIONAL WHEN YOUR FRIENDS ARRIVE.
He knows too much take him out
Lukeskywalker: Your over confidence is your weakness
Loll
Hey I get that reference
Brexit leave's nasty taste, we should have decommissioned that one🆘🇬🇧💯🌏🌍👁️☠️👁️🗣️
I dont know why I expected it to fire
Because it has a fashy spirit.;)
They can if they want :) And if they have the amo;)
Meee2!
Same
@@raymondmathisen6160 You sure it's in a fireable condition?
that can survive another 100 yaer if they kept it in good conditions and grease it and it necesary to fire 1/3 shots in one year to clean the inside of canon and relax/release the springs of recoil
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
I don't think Britain would like that very much
Britain is fine with it. Just try not to hit anything valuable.
@@Hellcat_UK we can shoot Paris, right?
@@kommandantgalileo and the third goes to Pol- I mean the empty spot on the North Pole
"Hanz we need production of tanks"
"Bigger Kannon You say?"
...
*Ja Hanz*
*JA*
Hans*
@@michaelgobl1060 Hans is just a regular sentence of english. But Hanz makes the sentence into german-ish
Fishgang, nice
hans we need a better transmission
@@themechbuilder6171 *no
looked better when i was in the military in the 90's
the gun barrel is 158664 kg and the recoil pressure is 580 000 kg the Projectile is 1024 and 600 kg+- a few kilo, the Projectile flight time is about 2,1min, and the highest hight is about 22 km and fire radius is 56km @ 600 kg shell :-) a big gun
Otto Olsen a VERY BIG gun:-)
Thanks for compressing the description down to a sentence.
How much armor can it penetrate?
@@georgivanev7466 enough
@@georgivanev7466
It depends on the angle of attack, the material of armour, the type of shell used. I guess it could penetrate up to 1 or 2, maybe 3 metres of reinforced concrete, but I don't know for sure.
I love the way the little sections of the walkway lift up and out of the way when the gun slews - that's attention to detail.
Stylish Uniform,Had a technology ahead of it's time.
German Engineering at its finest
SEKAI ICHIIII
@@kitsunehistory Ah also don't forget first Cyborg in 1938 that defeated Demi God
More like German OVER engineering at its finest. Theirs a reason the rest of the world wasn't building this large of costal guns. Unless this thing happens to be in the right spot and doesn't get hit with air artillery it going to be a very large burning pile of rubel
@@FUNKER420 yeah, the schwere Gustav was such a waste of resources, the Tirpitz as well.
@@kit_0617 MAUS
I am so glad to see those guns still perserved very well and hope to see them in future!
Safari Sauer a small group of former artillerists are doing all the maintenance for free. Great people!
Great jobs and Great people!
kobbaen it’s was used but another country’s army
This is 406mm SKC/34 L/52, that had to operated and used by H-class battleships, including H39, H40A, H40B. But... as we know, those battleships was scrapped and we see how his germanian 16" inch / 406mm guns was used.
Tbh I was supprised to see still working one
Two battleships of the "H39" design were laid down, but work was soon halted because they weren't far along and materials were needed elsewhere. These battleships were essentially like enlarged Bismarck-class and would have 8 16 inch guns. Several of the guns were built for these two particular battleships and these are the guns which were repurposed for coastal artillery, as we see in the video. I'm not trying to disagree with you, just adding a bit more context, as I believe it is noteworthy to add this information, since there were only ever two battleships of the entire so-called H-series ever laid down, with the other bigger designs never being laid down. Although, if I remember correctly, not even all 16 of these guns needed for the two battleships were produced because the construction of the ships was suspended and then cancelled before all the guns were built.
So the Bismarcks guns are bigger?@@MaxCroat
@@coolboi1232 no no, the bismarck and tirpitz had 15 inch or 380mm guns, the next battleship class (the H39 ehich were never completed, as I said) were supposed to have 16 inch or 406mm guns. And some of these guns were completed, but the ships themselves were scrapped, so these guns were used in coastal defense.
I suppose you misunderstood my sentence saying these ships were enlarged bismarck class, here I was referring to the H39 class which were in essence supposed to be very similar to the bismarck class, but larger.
@@MaxCroat I wish they were fully built how many guns are the ships supposed to have?
@@coolboi1232 8 main guns, same layout as bismarck class with two double turrets in a superfiring position forward and two aft
You have to take a minute to appreciate the shear size of this gun. Unfortunately, the video is only 58 seconds. What a huge beast!
To think these where on WW2 war ships, may be even more insane though. And these guns had 5-10 floors with people and walkways and railways and bunkers, to actually run them. On a ship it's not difficult, it's what they are designed for. On land, well. No wonder the mountains and hills are hollowed out all along the coast from Norway to France.
@@krimke881 Yep, these guns were the ones built for the two H39 class battleships then under construction in Germany, but since the battleships were cancelled and some of the guns were already built, they repurposed them as coastal artillery.
3/10 didn't fire
What I love on old tech, is that in case of war, it is still being used.
In WW1, weapons from 1870s were being used. In WW2 many pieces from WW1 were used. Same in Vietnam, wars in orient or so. In Ukraine, they used old T-34s. In Africa, they rebuilt T-34s to carry howitzers.
Mosin-Nagants and Ppsh are used worldwide, as ammo is abundant and these weapons will always shoot.
Or American classics, like 1911 or M2.
Imagine it, in year 2021, we are still killing each other with 100 or more years old weapons.
There is artifical inteligence, precise sattelites or god-damn drones, but we still use weapons made in ages of steam and horses.
And I bet if there will be some major war and weapons will be scarce, pieces from museum will still see some good use.
Would love to see it fire again!
Maybe fire it on V.E. Day!
My British grandpa will not love to see it firing again
same
No, 17th of may would be better. @@Dr.Pepperdave
I've done some service work on it, such as painting and looking over it as a summer vacancy job, such an interesting well kept piece of engineering, i actually live just a few kilometers from this gun, it really does function well after all those years, as a matter of fact it is in firing condition, so they could fire it.
I'm sure if anyone tries to invade in that area it will fire
What is preventing them from firing it?
@@maggs131 Two main reasons i believe, one is the availability and laws & regulations surrounding the charge that would be used, but the biggest concern would be the shear shockwave generated would blow out the windows of surrounding buildings, the cannons was supposedly tested by the Norwegian forces back in the early 50s or so, they fired one round and they blew people's windows several hundred meters away, caused a massive lean up operation.
@@HansensUniverseT-A Norwegians are serious people, I experienced while visiting norge in 2002, but in case of wanting some fun..., they become melting glaciers 😆
Listen to some darkthrone stuff and blow out the damn windows! 😂
It's fascinating and scary how advanced the Germans were in ww2. The fact that only a few fluke moments in history prevented them from creating nuclear weapons is haunting..
Fluke moments and serious sabotage from the heros of the Telemark
Germany expelled most of their nuclear scientists for being Jewish, I wouldn't call that a fluke.
German technological superiority is by the most part a myth.
@@moekitsune Nazis try not to handicap themselves challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
Fashinating XD
imagine having a gun that big malfunction and it just explodes right there on the spot
Dolfy would be proud because of his engineer.
As mentioned by one of German Commander, Rudol Von Stroheim : "German engineering is number one in the world".
Where is Gerany? I must know!
@@black.baron_angel is there were gerans live?
Long live Gerania
Amazing engineering!
In my best Marvin the martian voice
"Where is the kaboom? there was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM!
Yes I love this!
There is a lot of things that survived the war but have been scrapped or lost (or nuked if your the U.S) and it’s good to see there is still some things that have survived time and still work today!
Taken care of a group of enthusiastic senior citizens. They do a fantastic job👍
This cannon was originally built for being used on the H-class battleship, but since it was cancelled, it was used as a coastal gun
Two turrets from the sunken Arizona were salvaged, rebuilt, and installed in coastal installations on the east and west points of Oahu.
Was the Bismarcks guns bigger?
@@coolboi1232 no, Bismarck's guns were 380mm (15 inch) while the guns from the pic are 406mm (16inch), the same caliber as the Iowa class battleship from the US navy
@@aurdel775 damn
last shot fired was in 1957 i think, the operating manpower was 68 souls for each gun, and the bullet or shell velosity was 810 m\s for the heavy shells and 1050 m\s for the lighter adolf shell , the hatches at the back is for the rear support of the gun, and the 2 elevators lifting the ammo, the gun is supported by a track + there are 2 more rails for a gun create(waggon) for faster transport and loading, as there was only 4 plases to get the shells out into the back of the bunker.the squere chanel going down on the right side of the turret is a gravety operated elevator to remove the hot used cartridge.
Imagine being on a naval vessel, just chilling watching the shore defense being destroyed by ur ships cannons. Then out of the smoke, you notice something odd. A giant barrel just calmly aiming at your soul 💀
Wow what a rare treasure!
It is still functional ! What an reliable weapon.
It works because it's made with old tech, mechanical tech, and it's been maintained for years.
Oh maaaan what a Beast!!!! Thank you for the Video :)
Now imagine a battleship with TWELVE of these mounted in 4 turrets. That was some serious firepower.
It didn´t exist. The max cal on naval guns, Yamato, 460 mm,9 guns, Iowa class 406 mm, 9 guns
@@manucorral6284 it was intended to be mounted on a battleship, but A. H changed the plan. It's in the description.
Isn’t that a 16 in pretty much what US had on there battleships. AirPower made the big battleships obsolete
@@manucorral6284Of course the Montanas would’ve had twelve such guns, and there was a Tillman design that would’ve packed TWENTY FOUR.
what a cool cannon I wonder what would happen if it were on a tank
How about a demonstration shot?!
Good idea!
Gotta love that Teutonic engineering!!! Man. They built that thing to last. No squeaks, no scraping noises. Just the sound of the drive motor running down in the turret pit. Looks good too!!!
It was kept in running order for several decades by the Norwegian armed forces. We used it as a naval defence element up until the 80s i believe.
@Loli4lyf What's the point of you living? Go try heroin.
@@theRealBased1492 he was being sarcastic...
When things were made to last!!
Amazing german technology 🥰
Keep it operational. Possibly will be needed in future
Nice to see it in good shape and operating. How about firing a shot or three? It would only take six bags of powder at 110 lbs. each (660 lbs. total).
If this was intended for a battleship, don't they normally have 2 or 3 barrels?
Well yes, but the ships they were supposed to be mounted on were never started
Fun Fact: you can already experience Bismark's Main Battery for visiting this
A large coastal defense piece, but not the largest. The US had multiple batteries of guns that were of comparable size if not slightly larger. I will however concede that this is the largest coastal defense gun still in place. One of the surviving examples of the American guns is on display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
@@preude1American 16"/50 Mark 2 (410mm) was originally intended for the South Dakota class battleships, but due to treaties at the time the remaining cannons were used as coastal artillery You used to be able to see it in San Francisco. Today, I'm not sure if it's still there.
I'm happy that these still exist
Bit of a tactical error having the track exposed like that. A single direct hit on that would have disabled the whole gun. A single member of the resistance with a coffee cup of thermite could have done the same damage.
I wonder if it’s bigger than Bismarcks 15 inch shells but imagine how loud it is and the damage it could do
Russian B-37 406mm gun: Hold my vodka...
You will NEVER fire the Adolfkanonen. Feels bad man.
That's the one that many people died when constructing it but was never used?
Yes, that’s correct.
He definitely didn't compensate for anything
Hitler has only got one ball...
"Everybody in line! Roll call completed! Begin loading cannon!"
That is a big caliber!
Can you imagine how many projectiles there are out in the ocean from them calibrating that gun in
There are many 16" guns on battleships of the WWII era -- so the engineering for these coastal guns is no big deal. Two Japanese battleships had 18"+ guns, which were even more amazing.
This things was chambered for the 406 mm shells same as the Iowas & North Carolina class main guns
A big beast, but it never achieved anything as impressive as Norway's own coastal artillery. Drøbak Sound. Perfect.
Yeah due to britains spy network, that's not even the biggest gun, germanys gun could fire from it's coast directly into britain, it's just that the brits were so smart and roleplayed over radio that after each shot they got hit so the germans never adjusted their shots thinking they allready were perfectly on targed altho they just shortly hit infron of the british coast. ... Smart MFs. Well let's just say they were lucky drones were no thing back then.
old tech. miss the good old days.
Great info thanks
I want one of these in my garden so I can protect myself against evil deer eating my strawberry plants. It could also make my neighbour think twice before he cut the hedge down to one meter in length and preventing sales people from entering my yard. It might even reach Stockholm from here, I really want one of these its simply a wounderful thing to have.
one of these days this is going to be used again...one of these days...
16 inch naval gun thats realy overkill the iowa had same size guns as its main guns.
Imagine miss one of those...
"wait why is it pointing at me"
And he was never seen again.
When you can't find a big enough tracked vehicle to carry your gun, so you just mount it on the EARTH.....
Earth is now a tank.
Well preserved great mind Engineers at that time who Invent this biggest Gun of All time great.
It’s scary how close the Germans came to winning WW2. Like Napoleon, (and the Spanish Armada), weather was the greatest weapon against them.
Industrial capacity is the most important.
"I am completely mentally stable, oh hey look, a civilian cruise ship!"
Everybody gangsta till the demolition expert is your tour guide
It was and is not the biggest Coastal gun in the world. The Japanese had bigger ones, but it was the biggest in Europe and in Germanys Atlantic Wall.
Had? Or do they still exist?
I’m sure there was bigger a gun turret of a old German war shop
This is currently the biggest coastal gun in the world.
FotoschoPro what is it bigger due to its gun being 40.6 cm?
FotoschoPro there’s a gun turret with 3 280mm guns and shouldn’t of this gun gun had concrete hood over the top
I'm not sure if it's the wind or the bearings but I swear this damn thing is howling.
Howling to the sky!
who would win? a group battle fleet with landing crafts and cruiser or a big boi cannon concrete to the ground
Good question! What’s the answer, you think?
So it's AK (AdolfKanonen)
It's amazing to see it still working.
Achtung fire shots!!!!
Was waiting for a shot at the end...
How accurate is this at 90% of its range?
The Death Star is fully operational
Btw temporarily closed :)
0:35 I thought cannon in German is spelled "Kanone" (not Kanon)? Or is it "Altdeutsch" (oldtime German)?
Amazingly
Range... How many kilometres or miles? 🤔
56 kilometers or about 30 miles was the range
wow just *wow*
Fun Fact for those that don't wanna read the entire description lmao: These were originally meant for German Battleships. In particular, new ones after the legendary Bismarck and Tirpitz. Only 3 of these guns were ever produced.
Hitler: I want a p.100 ratte tank
The company: sorry but turret only
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There is a similar facility near St. Petersburg
Where nearby St. Petersburg?
@@kobbaen Rzhevsky artillery range in the Leningrad region.
15 inch is no joke
Can't believe that caliber of this cannon and that of Bismarck's is same
Iva a ser uno de los cañones del h-39 que se canceló para primar la fabricación de submarinos,los cañones ya fabricados se repartieron por las costas de zonas ocupadas como defensas costeras,plan z .hubieran sido acorazados monstruosos.
Is this the same gun for the bismarck or the others
These types of guns seem to have gone obsolete around 1968 or so. Anti ship missiles and all that. I don't know if there was an anti gun emplacement missile around that time.
Reminds me of this 90s short film, can't remember the name though
Do you remember the name of the film now?
I would have love to see a old gun like this fire again ... but at the same time, i know you would have to start up a factory to cast a new pipe to start with.
I wonder how these old pipes age? With that massive pipe could it be prone to bend a little by just sitting there for years and therefore not be able to fire safely?
Well, the US Navy was firing 16" Naval Guns very similar to this one into the 1990's - so I don't really think that "Barrel Droop" is an issue -
remember, these these are not simple pipes, but are engineered to remain precisely accurate while withstanding the massive firing pressures required
to propel the projectiles.
@@theblackbear211 oh ok. Maybe modern pipes could last longer? Or there was a big storage of pipes left overs and they just stored and reused old stock?
Well im no master in knowledge about it, just hobby interest in the facinating boats of WWII.
But to my understanding, in WWII the ship pipes would need to be change freq. because everytime they fired, massive amount of metall and excessive amount of heat would make the pipe flex (Japan and USA fired big heave ass shells) , so accurancy was always a issue. Meaning, in my humble understanding, that there had to be a steady supply of pipes produced as you could only fire a gun ex amount time before i new pipe had to be fitted? (sorry if im not making sence, at work and english second language) 😊
@@IsopropylRecordings You are correct about the gun barrels wearing with use.
Each time a shell is fired it did wear the barrel.
So yes, spare barrels were manufactured for these guns - and Naval shipyards had the capability of relining and reboring the old barrels back to specifications - so they could then be re-used.
But, I am unaware of any tendency for an unused gun barrel to develop alignment problems.
I do know that one of the key issues that the US was running into in operating these weapons was that all the powder charges dated from before 1950... so there was a question mark as to how long this powder would remain reliable.
You mean barrel
"Boom here comes the Boom!!! Oh wait....."
Where is this and is it still working
It is in the City of Harstad in Norway, and it is fully functional.
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Kaliber ??
40,6cm
Those doors opening barely on time gave me a heart attack
Wish I could go there
And then when you think that the Yamato battleships guns were 460mm ..wow
Its more like a Bismarck kannon with one barrel
I wonder why they didn't use a pair of these in Bismarck,probably weren't available during late 1930s.
Originally built for H class battleship.
Nazi Megastructures brought me here. Fascinating.
WHERE'S THE VIDEO OF UT FIRING, I NEED IT!
This gun can stop alien invasion😂
Definitely! Yoda says: Alien invasion this gun can stop😁