Gustav Gun, Artillery Weapons of World's Largest Ever Created Nazi

Gustav Gun, Artillery Weapons of World's Largest Ever Created Nazi
Gustav GUN



This is an example of Adolf Hitler's ambitions. In history, the largest cannon ever built was the "Gustav Gun" was built in Essen, Germany in 1941 by Friedrich Krupp AG. This massive weapon is built on direct orders from Adolf Hitler for the purpose of destroying the Maginot Line fort that protects the French border. For it is reached, the Krupp cannon dmerancang giant train weighing 1344 tonnes with the barrel diameter of 800 mm (31.5 ") and is served by 500 person crew!. Hitler also ordered to make 3 pieces of cannon at the same time the same size.

Speaking of strength, this giant is rumored to be able to penetrate the thick walls of reinforced concrete 82 meters with a range of projectiles as far as 29 miles, equivalent to 47 km.

But France fell in 1940 without the assistance of Gun Gustav, so the new target sought. Hitler planned to use Gustav to storm the British fortress of Gibraltar, but failed after General Franco refused to give permission to shoot from Spanish soil. Finally, April 1942 Gustav placed outside the port city of Sebastopol in the Soviet Union. Ironically, in the face of Gustav and other heavy artillery, Fort Stalin, Lenin and Maxim Gorki shattered and fell by the Russians.


In one round of battle, Gustav destroyed the Russian ammo ammunition in Severnaya Bay. Gustav fired 300 bullets during the siege. 'Gustav' second named Dora, was established west of Stalingrad in mid-August but hastily withdrawn in September so as not to get caught. Gustav next appeared outside Warsaw, Poland, in which 30 bullets were fired into the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during 1944.

April 1945, Dora was blown up by German engineers in the near Oberlichtnau, Germany, to avoid confiscation by the Russian army. While the third cannon was never completed.

June 1945, Gustav finally 'captured' by the U.S. Army near Metzendorf, Germany, in June 1945. Shortly thereafter, this giant dismembered as scrap metal and ended the story of Gustav Gun, the giant cannon.