German Railway Gun That Shelled Britain 

Some of the robot bombs or buzz bombs would do that. When you heard them coming and the sputtering stopped it was coming down.

@@lewisbighuber7029 heard about those. My grandfather talks about them a lot. The idea of living in a world where your neighbours houses are getting blown up on a regular basis is very scary

Hope that building be my office, I won't have to work

@@swetasahi1058 then will go broke and starve... big brain

like in angry birds 2

The Gustav' gun was shipped over to the Crimea offensive and was used on the Russian fortress at savestipol it battered some of the Maxim Gorky fortress to rubble sections of the fortress concrete fortifications for some reason were not reinforced thus the Russian paid a heavy price one spectacular hit was the underground ammunition bunker under the bay the shell from this gun entered the water smashed Through the concrete and detonated destroying the bunker

wtf

@@soultraveller5027 jesus

the Mass is 1,350 tonnes (1,490 short tons; 1,330 long tons) the length of the gustav isLength 47.3 metres (155 ft 2 in) Barrel length 32.5 metres (106 ft 8 in) L/40,6 Width 7.1 metres (23 ft 4 in) Height 11.6 metres (38 ft 1 in) Crew 250 to assemble the gun in 3 days (54 hours), 2,500 to lay track and dig embankments. 2 flak battalions to protect the gun from air attack.

@@creativejoey4407 AND THE DORA GUN COULD ONLY BE PLACED THERE BECAUCE THE GERMANS HAD TOTAL AIR CONTROL OVER THE CRIMEA , IF NOT THE HUGE GUN COULD EASYLY BE OVERRUN AND DESTROYED - THE GERMANS LET THE ONE OF TWO 80 CM GUNS BE CAPTURED OUTSIDE LENINGRAD 1944 SLIGTLY DESTROYED AND THE OTHER 80CM RAIL ROAD GUN WAS FOUND BY THE AMERICANS UP A RATHER UNKNOWN RAILSTRETC IN A FORGOTTEN VALLEY IN BAVARIA WITH THE BARREL BLOWN APART , THINKS THE ENGLISH FOUND A LOT OF PIECES FOR THE NUMBER 3 80CM KANONS AT THE KRUPP FACTORY , ALL WAS DESTROYED AND MELTED DOWN TO POTS AND PANS FOR THE NEW GERMAN SOCIETY !!!

Lol 😂👌

Wie weit sollte die Kanone schießen?

JAAAAA🤬😂

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@@user-kf4uh3xw2q 60 bis 80 km im Durchschnitt

If a handheld revolver can make your ears ring for minutes, imagine 200 kilograms of shell blasting out of the barrel of a railway gun!

As someone who is in an Artillery regiment yes they would have gone deaf very very quickly

Dentists do...so one told me, the whining of drills shoots away their high pitch hearing.

@bademeister Ouch! That would hurt.

Its why they used only deaf soldiers. Say what? 🙉

XD

I love my cannon.

Not really pulling thats cruel. Maybe "walking" was the word youre looking for

@@ligerfelikscayanga7361 Yh you don't pull your dog or cat, you walk them

Taking his Pitbull named snowflake for a walk

Jacob Andrews it's thomas the 🚆

LOL

Jacob Andrews Would’ve made a wonderful episode when I was a kid. I wish they made a miniature one for model sets.

this is not the Schwerer Gustav though. this is a waaaaaaay smaller version of it.

Wow so original......

it’s not a train...

@@Mggggssss It's a railroad cannon the same applies to calling a locomotive train.

Thomas had had enough so he left a trail of destruction in his wake

Anyone else getting Battlefied 1 vibes? Just me? ...

MARS！

@@jamiezhou5049 pluto

@@TomVycital the recoil would most likely destroyed even the "Schwerer Gustav" Plattform.... And NO Steel is as tough as KRUPP Steel, of WW2 especially.

Deaf 999999999999999999999

@@insanbiasa7738 andromeda

That must have been scary for him

Do you have maybe some photographs with him on some plane? That would be awesome...

LOL

You are wight about that. Never heard of a "wailway" gun.

Never heard of kwupp🤣

wussia fwance wailway owiginal afwica amewican wobot

It could be used to hunt wascally wabbits. 🤣

Gunguy maybe, there’s also the chance that they’d overengineer everything and somehow break the transmission

@@kkhagerty6315 underrated comment, well done 👏🏻

when they take us over we could show them all the awsome weapons we been wasting our time and resources into designing

No but maybe Germans can do some logistics

@@cancelled_user agh damn man it's crazy how far German has fallen

I'm glad you like it. Also i love your profile pic, its from Redcon. I love that game, Played the campaign around 5 over now

thanks i realy like that game too im realy interested in artillery and so i kame to redcon

wailway guns*

@MEanME great comment xD

MEanME lmfaoo

r/iamverysmart?

That's probably the biggest compliment you could get from a teacher.

While this vid was made or not, it was shelled, even if it doesn´t suit you hater.

@@petergehlen4190 chill boomer he was joking

Please eat your keyboard.

Moron

History channel sell conspiracy theories

History channel sell conspiracy theories

Why not use a dehumidifier?

"Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry".

@@butterfinger4393 dehumidifiers create tons of heat, which gunpowder isn't too fun to store at

Correct !!!

eh if you know the germans.. they did both.

British citizens: bloody hell do I have to ask the damn spitfires to beat them damn bom-oh that’s why

@@mekhane.broken9678 bloody hell

They will shit their pants 🤣🤣🤣

Mada fucken shit

Just imagins getting nearly 200 likes for an insane comment

yes

or that ugly twat and his son "whats inside"?

Not biased

Normal people: what is that ? Attention whore : is a copy-pasted comment!

It *evolved* thomas

*Thomas the Tank Engine

Slay When it's buried under debris or hidden among other scrap. Many old derelict factories accumulate junk that never gets carted off by scrappers for legal and safety reasons, and it can pile up. Plus it was an artillery factory, which means it was sharing space with other old guns that were presumed to be just run-of-the-mill field pieces that laymen would be confused by and the workers simply ignored

Craigslist has everything

Same way as you discover the elephant in the room…

I think the question is rhetorical and didn’t really expect an answer. 😂

Jure G what

APFS-DS*

Yes, it's the same concept… if you can penetrate tank armor with a "small" one, you can penetrate a bunker wall with a large one. Ironically, the largest railway gun, "Schwerer Gustav" was designed to be used as ultra-heavy siege artillery against the French forts on the Maginot line, but was never used in this capacity, as it turned out to be unnecessary. Gustav fired 7,1t conventionally shaped AP rounds, however, or 4.8t HE rounds and no sabots. The AP rounds are reported to have been able to go through 7m of reinforced concrete.

@@qatronano still has the same meaning tho

Different company.

Krups?

@@raymondromanos1479 Nein

@@williamcrawford805 yes

@@nDua-wz8ox Doch!

@bademeister She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored. She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored...

Pervert

big press, forge.

Yeah, that would be most impressive

The gun pits were filled in to build the casino in Bethlehem steel for the big guns on battleships. They lowered them in these pits of oil to harden them in a cooling process.

Mark Prior They were also known individually as Gladiator, Piece Maker and Scene Shifter

Peter Gray Winnie and Pooh were the names of two guns, your three were seperate ones and there were more. Several batterys were raised using 12", 13.5" and 14" guns (as well as shorter ranged 9.2", 8" and 6" guns).

There are still some remains of these two in uk we were taken there to see them in 1996 with some d day vets if i recall it just blocks of concrete it was rumored they were buried in the fields locally after the war

Round earth propaganda!!!

the coriolis effect

IronVader I

yes but problem was that they needed special shells since every shot made barrel a bit wider. with special ammo for k5 in start of the war those 150 km reach ammo... poor london. no v1 and v2 just lots of cannons.

IronVader ja

axis have sophisticated weapons and armaments but the allies outsmarted them on intelligence and war tactics

@Nowhere man We also had less enemies. The germans declared war on the Soviets and then the Soviets helped the allies.

Armament so sophisticated they had to build railway tracks as they moved it. Nazi’s were really the white Neanderthals

@Alexander Challis The Bitish had Kingsmen.

Germany had hi tech equipment but most likely smaller numbers in equipment and men. Now the US is making the same mistake. We have very expensive high tech equipment but less numbers than some other countries due to high cost. They can pump out the same tank,plane or gun in higher numbers and cheaper cost.

they refurbished the original gun, believe it or not;

@Li U MAAA No they did not.

Yes ! The Americans took a trip north to the Canadian Artillery School at Camp Shilo Manitoba. There they examined a K5, that the Canucks had brought back as a war trophy. That gun was still there in the mid 60s, and as the logistics of moving that beast were/are so expensive, it's probably still there .

Even the saturn v would have never existed without the help of a german engineer.

@@JONDEMORAY Did you watch the video?

*Hold my Bier

@@DestroyZ Halt mein Bier

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Stalin: well looks like this is a job for a million katyushas Stalin: call in the full day artillery strike

Deus Vult a WW1 Hero? Not exactly. He was just one of the many people fighting there and stands out by getting an iron cross. And he was vegetarian, not vegan.

In the early-mid 1960s,my father was station at the Aberdeen Proving ground,MD.where i could look out my bedroom window and see the “Express” along with part of the tank museum.

Are you gonna make that video about the Gustav cannon any time soon? And if I may ask for it, a video on the Maus or the Ratte would be wonderful! I love your history videos!

+Jodda I think I talk about the maus in my top 10 weird tanks video

I was there to some years ago.

Ah yes, the Atlantikwall

I know you do, but I want more xD. Just though I'd mention it in case you were thinking about what to do next.

No you couldn't conceal it dummy. It obviously an open carry weapon.

A railgun is very different from a railway gun - I guess you could make a railway railgun, though… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

Saddam Hussein was famously remembered for trying to get one done.

Matthew Eitzman Our tyrannical governments don't allow it. There will never be real freedom until every man can carry a concealed tactical nuke!!!

Merica You’re the dummy , dummy. I reckon that weapon is too heavy to carry. So concealment is irrelevant, surely. 😳😉

They couldn't. The Germans had a number of heavy & super-heavy guns on the Channel coast. They spent much of the war firing at British convoys, and failed to sink a single ship.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 ehm....these guns are not to sink moving ships in the first place. If like to see artillery which can do this watch the exploding Hood video. ANd if you like to see accurate railgun shooting search for 90cm Dora Gerät hit Maxim Gorki Fortress at Sewastopol.

@@kubanskiloewe Actually, if you read the German plans for 'Sealion' the coastal batteries were supposed to dominate the Channel, and prevent RN warships from attacking the barge trains. In this case, that is precisely what they were supposed to do.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 plans , plans ....mostly the shit were old guns a bit modernized and with a shit crew. You cant compare this 3rd class armament with a high end gunnery and crew on a battleship ! Furthermore i think most, if not all coastal batteries in the world are not very accurate or up to date. anyway, i like more the Paris canon from WW1 !

@@kubanskiloewe I wasn't comparing anything with anything, simply pointing out what was supposed to prevent the RN from dealing with the barge trains in the event of Sealion being attempted.

well it would make a cool backdrop in a battlefield

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs I'd rather have Schwerher Gustav with its 800mm gun

Then land that on a carrier! Or kill a jet with it.

+Terminator X Pe-800 )))))

Gli Storty Po-2 will kill it

And there are many Wailways in this video. It so reminded me of "Life of Brian", the scene "What's so funny about Biggus Dickus?"

@@henrikcarlsen1881 i have a vehway good fwend in wome called Biggus Dickus

28 centimeter bawel wridth.

😂

This guy has a speech impediment and he talks funny.

Bro I want that pfp what’s it called

Hahaha

It started early in the 15.th. century when bell founders out of German speaking countries in Europe (the German state exists only since 1871) who also as bronze casters built the early guns, where not allowed by law to travel into other countries in Europe or to England. Most where even not allowed to leave their town or district. Just to keep the secrets of these well designed guns.

@@hartmutwrith3134 Deutz /Daud/Dawod son of adam

I remember when it was at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Give us Leopold back you thieves!

Huhrensöne !! Das ist unsre kanone !

@@cilliangalvin8646 besser die haben sie ,in der geisteskranken BRD würde sie zerstört u. eingeschmolzen werden

I remember when the wall was up ... and German engineering was tops in the world... then something happened and they let American civilians grab their country... now everything is a monopoly over there now it’s just not the same way it used to be ... I’ve seen the changing since June 1989 till the present. Last trip over was 2016 and we don’t really have a good reason to go back anymore... but I’m sure glad I enjoyed the Autobahn every chance I’ve gotten... yes I’ve been the other side of 160 mph... 2016 I only got to go 147 mph. And it was in A Volkswagen Passat wagon Diesel, and that I had only pressed the peddle 3/4 of the way had to be the best part... the traffic on A-7 from Fulda to Kassel was kind of heavy or I could have been way over it... maybe 186 mph but alas it was just not meant to be...

Tyler H haha move to Australia, it’s a 2 day drive to a paved road

A five hour drive in europe? that's about a hundred to hundred fifty miles. the roads in europe follow the old cow paths!

Luckily i live in europe

@@imapaine-diaz4451 lmao in germany it‘s more like 400 miles in 5 hours on the autobahn

In my country...one hour is enough to tour my state....5-8 hour drive could give you tour for like the biggest state in the country

It was a railway gun actually. But he was running on up to 4 tracks at the same time if im not mistaken, But he DEFINITLY was a railwaygun

The U S army had a mortar mounted on a railroad car during the civil war,they used it at Petersburg battle.

I played in the tanks ( before they sealed them) in the field across the field from that gun in the mid 60’s

Same. It should pronounced like krupe I think?

Yes, but with short 'u'. A double consonant shortens the vowel in front of it.

Thomas Gabler How come "Krupp" doesn't have an umlaut, then? Or is the umlaut only used when there are no double consonants present and the need for the "short" sound still needs to be indicated?

Umlauts have nothing to do with vocal length. The dots just change the sound of the vowel. "Krüpp" would sound more like "Crypp".

Thomas Gabler adding the umlaut would make it more like, 'Kroop'. If you want to write it phonetically instead of using the umlaut you add an 'e' after the umlauted letter (in German, anyway. I am NOT talking about Finish, Turkish or any other language, just German!) Hence the name 'Müller' Anglicises into 'Mueller' and 'Jörg' becomes 'Joerg'. And in 'Krupps' it is definitely pronounced with a short 'u'. My girlfriend used to work there!

The Peenemünder Pfeilgeschoss (arrow shell) had a range of 151 km /94 miles out of the K5 smoothbore.

+Dudders1999 thank you. I'm happy you liked it

Was it clever to take on the USA, USSR and British Empire simultaneously while most of their military still used horses for transport?

@@alexspareone3872 they had a tyrannical power hungry leader, so they did what they were told without a choice but it does not take away from them being very clever when it comes to engineering and adapting.

@@alexspareone3872 also fun fact, hitler didnt even want war with britain, next time u try to be smart check ur facts

alex spareone They didn’t want to fight the US, Japan brought the US in the war because of the embargo. Germany didn’t bring Britain in the war either, the british declared war on the Germans, in 1940 their food and oil situation was getting dire and the closest reserves were in southwest russia

Were they really racially superior?

I did a video suggesting something like this a while back

@@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds My name is Leopold. thanks, It's a great name btw.