German Railway Gun That Shelled Britain

[@kortax5559]

Thomas the tank engines grumpier cousin Gustav the railway cannon

[@chandaemmanuel1885]

Jacob Andrews it's thomas the 🚆

[@johnvaz432]

LOL

[@matthew8153]

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

[@DocDewrill]

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

[@geertjehavinga2656]

Wow so original......

[@gawge_9609]

Imagine going about your business in a British town and, suddenly, an 11 inch explosive round, from 150km away, decimates the building next to you.

[@lewisbighuber7029]

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

[@gawge_9609]

@@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

[@swetasahi1058]

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

[@MrTarakan]

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

[@infinityknight43]

like in angry birds 2

[@NotCreativeEngh]

Krupp: how far should the cannon shot? Hitler: JAAA

[@Naza_44]

Lol 😂👌

[@user-kf4uh3xw2q]

Wie weit sollte die Kanone schießen?

[@a7md707]

JAAAAA🤬😂

[@brandonwagner3873]

Xbox one army 4848

[@marcob4630]

@@user-kf4uh3xw2q 60 bis 80 km im Durchschnitt

[@MrTazacafe]

1:15 German soldier pulling his pet cannon.

[@TheMortarWindmill]

XD

[@Margarinetaylorgrease]

I love my cannon.

[@ligerfelikscayanga7361]

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

[@Charlietolemy]

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

[@Dr-Dre]

Taking his Pitbull named snowflake for a walk

[@Cookie-Wizard]

Fun fact about the Gustave RR gun. Its shells were so powerful they had to be numbered and each shell had to be slightly larger than the last because each shell would measurably increase the bore of the gun.

[@soultraveller5027]

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

[@zakzwijn8410]

wtf

[@adxtti3321]

@@soultraveller5027 jesus

[@creativejoey4407]

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.

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

@@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 !!!

[@fatalexception1269]

I imagine those gun crews went deaf pretty quick.

[@RainytheNB]

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!

[@lokikinch]

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

[@alexspareone3872]

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

[@jacqueslefave4296]

@bademeister Ouch! That would hurt.

[@jamesalexander3530]

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

[@CristianoRonaldo-wt4oj]

My grandfather was in the Romanian airforce during the war, he was bomber and reconnaissance pilot, and was on the Eastern front at the Battle of Odessa in 1941, and Sevastopol in 1942.. He probably heard these guns being fired, as the Germans were shelling the Soviet positions and fortifications.. I'm really fortunate he made it back.. alive

[@lifeofvolodya3635]

That must have been scary for him

[@Gioagla]

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

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

I hope you guys enjoy this, i sure as hell loved making this video on a weapon not really talked about much. I may be making a vlog of the trip to france. This will include the second 2nd and 3rd museums i visited. Featuring a 380mm Naval coastal gun and the infamous V3 Wonder weapon As alway leave a Like if you enjoyed the video and if you want to go watch other videos similar to this one here -->kzbin.info/aero/PL3dMS27Tsqmolt4BSGZSLBbK4MC4FK2pU Also Big shout out to MaddEndd for making the Thumbnail for the video. Channel link: kzbin.info/door/DYcxj0qK6dypPexFoD8MFA

[@Joddasoap]

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!

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

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

[@julesb6816]

I was there to some years ago.

[@sig5816]

Ah yes, the Atlantikwall

[@Joddasoap]

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.

[@daugin]

Krupp: Alright how far do you want its max range? Hitler: North America Krupp: Im afraid we cant do th- Hitler: Britain.

[@jamiezhou5049]

MARS！

[@insanbiasa7738]

@@jamiezhou5049 pluto

[@kentomarek6823]

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

[@thefreeimperialstateofulm7598]

Deaf 999999999999999999999

[@maus-chanuwu1244]

@@insanbiasa7738 andromeda

[@l.h.9747]

finally i found a video thats longer than one minute about railway guns. thanks i watched it 5 times or so and the video is amazing.

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

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

[@l.h.9747]

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

[@TheKasperlkopf]

wailway guns*

[@l.h.9747]

@MEanME great comment xD

[@mrsauce9307]

MEanME lmfaoo

[@bradknightable]

I worried my history teacher in highschool because of how much I loved ww2 history and my love for German engineering. He even said I really didn't need to show up for that part of the course and just take the tests because I knew more than he did lol.

[@Wehraboo-fi9vm]

r/iamverysmart?

[@welkingunther5417]

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

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

If humanity ever united to fight off some otherworldy force, I would vote to have Germany design our vehicles and artillery.

[@kkhagerty6315]

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

[@TheLeggera]

@@kkhagerty6315 underrated comment, well done 👏🏻

[@klikitzsmith8416]

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

[@aluminiumknight4038]

No but maybe Germans can do some logistics

[@avcngxrsavcngxrs1212]

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

[@ironvader502]

Interesting gun and great video, but the K5 ain't as cool as the "Parisgeschütz" from WW1. Three 21cm artillery-pieces with over 130km range on their *normal* shells. These shells where the first man-made Objects to reach the stratosphere, and they range was so long that, although they were firing on Paris, a CITY, they had to shot at it like at a moving target, because they had to calculate with the earths rotation when shooting.

[@jackfuller8960]

Round earth propaganda!!!

[@GewelReal]

the coriolis effect

[@gaminglegend3407]

IronVader I

[@BarbikaPahor]

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.

[@bipolatelly9806]

IronVader ja

[@wafflesaurus_supreme]

This thing is about a 15 minute drive from my family's home in France. Visiting the huge bunker complex and standing next to this gun is really something else.

[@adrianrouse5148]

Can't imagine the work and engineering that went into that barrel and recoil system

[@alaskanbas6507]

Better than Discovery Channels 'How Do They Do It?'.

[@IndianYouThoober90]

yes

[@lukegewizz2413]

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

[@christophermcnamara5591]

Not biased

[@Matthew_Eitzman]

Has anyone ever applied for a concealed carry permit for a rail gun?

[@ExcavationNation]

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

[@TruthNerds]

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

[@Wolfen443]

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

[@trollemall7016]

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

[@francisjohnification]

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

[@vishwaskumar3793]

No "R"s been harmed during making of this video

[@josephlouwerse2105]

LOL

[@litote9]

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

[@LukasM297]

Never heard of kwupp🤣

[@_Only_Zuul]

wussia fwance wailway owiginal afwica amewican wobot

[@wiggy4729]

It could be used to hunt wascally wabbits. 🤣

[@cn0412]

When you are going for a picnic but can't leave your artillery behind so you take it with you by train.

[@justinsane3909]

Please eat your keyboard.

[@anthonyellsmore4532]

Moron

[@steventhompson399]

I remember seeing anzio annie a few times at the ordnance museum in Aberdeen Maryland in the early 2000s before the museum closed and exhibits were moved, believe me it was impressive to see, standing next to it looking up it was massive I can't imagine how big the larger Gustav and Dora guns must have looked

[@chipschannel9494]

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.

[@thejanglyman3886]

“Thomas has had enough of your Bullshit britain” * transforms into Gustav*

[@finng1164]

Everyone gangster until the train starts shooting

[@Mggggssss]

it’s not a train...

[@Voucher765]

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

[@RM10Prod.]

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

[@DubloDuck]

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

[@47homeslice]

Better then the history channels 48 hour “ancient alien” marathon

[@howsotope8553]

History channel sell conspiracy theories

[@howsotope8553]

History channel sell conspiracy theories

[@johndennis3181]

I would like to see the tooling that made the gun barrel.

[@rabbi120348]

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

[@kekistanihelpdesk8508]

Pervert

[@bingrasm]

big press, forge.

[@ryanlowry5409]

Yeah, that would be most impressive

[@axlerodthegreatbauman6763]

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.

[@Slay1337pl]

how do you 'discover' a 30-goddamn-meter gun!?

[@petergray2712]

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

[@shutupandgoogleit4688]

Craigslist has everything

[@TruthNerds]

Same way as you discover the elephant in the room…

[@francisjohnification]

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

[@GodzillacrafterHD]

Jure G what

[@markprior7971]

The British had 13.5" railway guns based near Dover (ex battleship guns) and had several gunnery duels with the German railway guns. Two of these were manned by Royal Marine Artillery crews and were known as "Winnie and Pooh".

[@petergray2712]

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

[@chazt8604]

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).

[@R.C.A.F.V.R.]

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

[@noben3473]

Allies:what is that? Hitler:its a railway GUN whit a motor from Thomas the train!!!!

[@Grumpycat95]

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

[@panzerproductions4668]

It *evolved* thomas

[@Kukaak]

*Thomas the Tank Engine

[@meesguyy]

Russia: haha look at our KV-2! Stronk 152mm of vodka! Hitler: *hold my beer*

[@DestroyZ]

*Hold my Bier

[@Kae-Lexi]

@@DestroyZ Halt mein Bier

[@abyssstrider2547]

*ßier

[@aneesh2115]

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

[@i3lackfusion]

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.

[@chonslie]

Why you pronounce Krupp krump

[@turboslag]

Same. It should pronounced like krupe I think?

[@thomasgabler3476]

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

[@JokahFACE]

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?

[@thomasgabler3476]

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

[@spudgunn8695]

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!

[@adamsmith5151]

Air conditioner was used to keep the humidity out of the powder, not to keep it cold.

[@butterfinger4393]

Why not use a dehumidifier?

[@DiogenesOfCa]

"Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry".

[@evmanbutts]

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

[@mikeloghry9521]

Correct !!!

[@g__wizz]

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

[@HardLineOffroad]

Im currently stationed at fort lee for the army, we run past leopold about every morning for pt, its really quite a sight to see

[@chipmunkhunt]

I remember when it was at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

[@jungletrouble8296]

Give us Leopold back you thieves!

[@cilliangalvin8646]

Huhrensöne !! Das ist unsre kanone !

[@hobertblank9643]

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

[@andrewostrelczuk406]

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...

[@jeltfr4582]

That arrow shell is basically APDS-FS to a whole new level

[@qatronano]

APFS-DS*

[@TruthNerds]

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.

[@Commander_35]

@@qatronano still has the same meaning tho

[@mykline1]

I use to drive by the K5 gun that was at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD everyday before it was moved to FT. Lee.

[@millardwashington6216]

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

[@IronPhysik]

Fun fact: the M65 "Atomic cannon" AKA Atomic annie is based on the K5 design.

[@mandataruu8685]

they refurbished the original gun, believe it or not;

[@Revener666]

@Li U MAAA No they did not.

[@JONDEMORAY]

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 .

[@crad5476]

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

[@Markle2k]

@@JONDEMORAY Did you watch the video?

[@stramster1]

I recently had the opportunity of seeing a shell casing from a Heavy Gustaf. It was being used as a water tank before the museum acquired it. A freaking water tank!

[@markcantemail8018]

Iron Arm , thank you . This is a very well made video , Easy to understand these huge Rifles after your effort . Please keep doing things your way .

[@hevnervals]

Wailway guns

[@henrikcarlsen1881]

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?"

[@ivahardy4885]

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

[@dangibbs5390]

28 centimeter bawel wridth.

[@joeybarnard]

😂

[@meabn007]

This guy has a speech impediment and he talks funny.

[@johannsebastianbach9003]

Just imagins cooking dinner and that madafakah hits your backround

[@DMGSTEPPA5LIFE]

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

[@helliswar]

@@mekhane.broken9678 bloody hell

[@user-sj4qc6mw2c]

They will shit their pants 🤣🤣🤣

[@trustngwenya4471]

Mada fucken shit

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Just imagins getting nearly 200 likes for an insane comment

[@dr.skulhamr3220]

Enjoy fighting this monstrous gun in Sniper Elite 4. One of my favorite maps has a rail gun like this one mounted on a rail car sitting above a steep canyon. You get to fight the gun crews and try to blow up the gun before it can decimate the allies. Sweet fun!

[@syrtech121]

Germans have always been found of huge guns. Haha we’ve all seen their tanks not to mention some of their tank blueprints that they planned on building. Take the Grille 15, which was never built, but in theory if it was, it would’ve been a HUGE cannon coming at you at quite as high speed lol. sure wouldn’t want to be on the battlefield against one of those

[@FritzKraut]

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.

[@MRNDESO-ps7bz]

@@FritzKraut Deutz /Daud/Dawod son of adam

[@Alede27]

Gaijin plz add

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

well it would make a cool backdrop in a battlefield

[@Maximilian7992]

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

[@Nicitel94]

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

[@GewelReal]

+Terminator X Pe-800 )))))

[@christian6637]

Gli Storty Po-2 will kill it

[@aaryabhave3018]

*No British land was shelled during the making of this video*

[@petergehlen4190]

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

[@garlicbreadstick404]

@@petergehlen4190 chill boomer he was joking

[@preteristlab-endtimes5683]

I was always curious about these titanic guns. Great research. Thank you for the post.

[@tonymontana5753]

damn, germany had some sophisticated armaments back then.

[@jameskyriegelicame7462]

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

[@TheBestGrapefruitGuy]

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

[@slade6403]

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

[@aritrachakraborty602]

@Alexander Challis The Bitish had Kingsmen.

[@whatfreedom7]

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.

[@Gioagla]

Thank you dude for the introspective, it was really nice to learn more about these things

[@pluviosaurus05]

*Britain didnt get shelled during the making of this video*

[@sam2920]

Sometimes I think the nazis just wanted to have some fun, we all die so soon and war is definitely not fun, so they made ridiculous guns, really fast planes, and really cool tanks.

[@TileBitan]

well, if you ignore the tortures and massive genocides commited i guess yeah you are kinda right

[@LocalDeepstateAgent]

You mean by the allies? Yeah forgot that history books dont teach those. Thanks for remindidng me daily.

[@TileBitan]

whos talking about the allies nazi apologist? We are talking about the nazis in WWII, not even Japan, which by the way was famous for things like the Nanjin masacre. So this isn't about the allies or the axis, this is about the title of the video and this comment in particular, we are talking about NAZIS

[@TileBitan]

@XxX Guilty King XxX Well, tell me your background please. Do you have any careers, or you are just an angry little man from highschool? Usually things aren't white or black and this is one of them. History isn't always written by the winners. That's why we know about drugs on the allied army (as well as in the axis), some pretty nasty things uk did in south africa, the american natives genocides through colonization, the atlantic slave trade... All of those things aren't good at all, but we know about them because history isn't always written by the winners. That is a facebook type phrase nazi apologists, flat earthers and other crazy people like you, use to justify their beliefs.

[@romnium162]

@@TileBitan yeah lmao the axis basically is the lowest scum in earth. But we also can't forget about Russian communism and the atomic bombs But in my opinion the atomic bombs are necessary to avoid more damage.

[@dongilleo9743]

The German June 1942 assault on the fortresses at Sevastopol in the Crimea were probably the high point of the German big artillery guns. There was an unprecedented number of the big guns gathered together at one time for one battle, that was never repeated for the rest of the war.

[@Cragified]

Railway guns had been around since WW1 using spares for battleships, used extensively by the allies during the stalemate. They are good assets for static or slow moving warfare. But simply didn't factor into the Allied strategy of constant advancing when logistics allowed in WW2. Forcing attrition of the German forces and keeping them under pressure unable to regroup. In such cases railway guns are simply too slow and too unwieldly compared to towed and self propelled artillery. Btw, look up the Little David mortar if you enjoy such massive artillery weapons. 12 inchs larger in caliber then the Karl-Gerat.

[@keithgutshall9559]

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

[@sebek2242]

Greetings from an Iron Armenian from Iran. I'm a WWI & II buff and I enjoyed your video alot.

[@elvisischrist]

And all that technology went right into your Krupp coffee maker....

[@raymondromanos1479]

Different company.

[@williamcrawford805]

Krups?

[@nDua-wz8ox]

@@raymondromanos1479 Nein

[@raymondromanos1479]

@@williamcrawford805 yes

[@raymondromanos1479]

@@nDua-wz8ox Doch!

[@xel_los]

awsome man thank u for da vids m8

[@Truth639hurts]

wow 1940's Germany was more advanced as compare to 2018's India.

[@SACHINYadav-sn4op]

These were useless weapons cuz this thing was freaking huge means an easy target for bombers, instead of making these illogical weapons , nazi should have made more tiger tanks

[@TheCarDemotic]

gaming world Shouldn’t you be glad they wasted money and lost the War?

[@jerryudonneedtoknow3903]

@@SACHINYadav-sn4op fucking pleb, im a wehraboo but that's stupid, you don't "make more tiger tanks" you make more panzer IV's and Panzer III's, tigers are reliable "enough" but they are expensive and consume to much fuel, you could but more but that's not good, sticking with mediums like Panthers and panzer 3-4's increases their efficiency, and the tiger is my favorite tank so this is not bias

[@muhammadfawad1505]

You are right @Truth Hurts

[@samuelmorales2344]

It was useless in warfare. It can only shoot at fixed permanent targets that didn't move at all and it wasn't accurate either on top of that. It could take ages to reach any distant target, took a whole day to put it into place, could fire 1 round every 30-45 minutes, needed thousands of soldiers to operate it, and had piss range of 50km.

[@matthewdufur5489]

Can you imagine being a young man, with pride, being on one of these guns crews? I can after many years in field artillery. N. Germany 1979 to 1986.

[@TheArtilleryman]

The picture at 8:05 is of Boche Buster, an Allied railway gun

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

+Matthew Hutchinson I know I just liked the picture of the troops heading into a tunnel

[@ties4281]

I know it’s all about maths and engineering but I’m still amazed by how those people can make a gun shoot “accurately” without being able to see the target.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

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.

[@kubanskiloewe]

@@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.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@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.

[@kubanskiloewe]

@@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 !

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@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.

[@peterlarsen7779]

It's really difficult to not be impressed by these gigantic guns...

[@ralphgeigner3011]

There was a few years back, excellent HO scale 1/87 K 5 cannons and sets with loco and cars, made by LIMA and Rivarossi, , once in a while they can be found on ebay or on line hobby shops. GO ARMY

[@ralphgeigner3011]

I recently while in Germany and Austria December 2018, vacation to Christmas Markets and visit some hobby shops that I know of, came across ! 1 Lima K 5 cannon and 1 Rivarossi, that are like new and never taken out of the box, a great find ! You never know what is found sometimes being items sold to the hobby shops and or consignment ? GO ARMY

[@tomast9034]

GPM makes them as cardboard/paper models in a scary scale :D 1:25

[@zer00rdie]

"world where gun"- Got to love the subtitles.

[@rockstar1967]

I used to climb on Leopold when I was a kid. It was at the Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

[@Painterrap]

The idea of these massive guns falls directly in line with Germany's style as it relates to war machines in general. If you look at WWII from a broad perspective you can see the Germans often went with highly sophisticated and best in class war machines. For example the German tanks for the most part were far better fighting machines than the American Sherman, the Germans 88mm flak gun which could obviously be duel purposed into a ground artillery unit as well was much more capable then most American artillery. In fact the 88mm gun was retrofitted to become the most superior tank gun on the battlefield when it was installed in the Tiger 1 in 1942. The Germans concept of war was bigger and better then their opposition. It's my humble opinion that their obsession with bigger and better played a major role in Germany loosing the war. The long production time, small amount of units made, high fuel consumption, low stockpiles of ammunition, high cost and complexity of craft needed to construct most of their equipment really took its toll on the Germans down the stretch. The Americans from 1942-1946 were able to build almost 50,000 Sherman tanks and while they were inferior to the Tiger in a one on one scenario the Sherman was very fast and had a very reliable engine. The Americans kind of went with the mediocre approach to war equipment and their concept was to just suffocate the opposition with units and it was very successful. Many stories are told of Tiger tanks fighting off a dozen or so Shermans. The difference is the Americans could afford to loose tanks without much concern as there would be another hundred to replace the ten that were lost. The Americans also started to figure out how to destroy Tigers by engaging them with 5 or 6 tanks at once allowing one or two of the Sherman's to get close enough that their shells would penetrate the thick armor of a Tiger. I know it might sound morbid cause often times the soldiers occupying these machines would get killed or severely injured but the Americans idea of a good war machine was a unit that could be mass produced and was rather disposable so the loss of several units wouldn't even make a dent. And let's face it that concept kinda worked as towards the end of the war Germans were running low on everything while American forces were busy offloading a couple hundred brand new units per day.

[@gord2000]

That goes for people as well. A couple of thousand casuaties can easily be replaced, and just look at the British as well, 57000 air crew lives lost in bomber commands mass raids.

[@garlicbreadstick404]

Ill act like i did read that

[@pmeagle]

Yes you highlight the Axis main problem at the time: not enough resources (people, raw materials, etc). They identified, planned and did it right and captured key positions fast, as they couldn't afford prolonged war (remember a decade earlier post-WW1 germany was insanely poor). But, like always, politics and Party's ego never make the greatest decisions.

[@Ruvi5000]

1:15 I don't think Schwerer Gustav was a railway gun, because it couldn't really be transported on rail but it used s "Schießkurve" - "Shooting Bend" a railcurve to shoot it's bullets. It also needed two tracks to fire not one line. At least that's the way I understood it, I might be wrong though. Great Video btw!!!!

[@leopoldsalzbrenner7791]

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

[@danielvrana9444]

Man how do you not love that gun??? I would love to hear it fire!! That would be worth the price of that ticket for sure!!!! Thank you for your post I learned of my next vacation I must see that gun!!!

[@brujay9321]

It’s like wack-a-mole but the moles fire at you whenever they pop out and you’re reaction time is too slow

[@TheAgProv]

If you go to Dover and Folkestone on the English coast, you can still see the places where those shells came down; there's the shell of a church in Dover that took a direct hit, for instance, and in Folkestone on the Sandgate Road, you will see a street of what is largely big and imposing Victorian houses - but with the odd infill of ugly and functional 1950's and 1960's buildings which are typical of shabby and tatty post-war British architecture. you have ot ask yourself what created all those big gaps in the original Victorian townscape!

[@Stormraught]

Ive seen the same gun you went and saw, the gun itself is insane. The museum inside is really cool as well, neat family that owns it.

[@eltostado3304]

11:00 watch out I think wargaming might add that to WoT

[@urgi7703]

Dank Potato it's so realistic... WoT will be more realistic than WT then... We can't let them have it!

[@NS-kl9yy]

Dank Potato and make it a tier 8 premium and black camo

[@galil_6863]

Tier 8 Premium powercreep

[@kingblane]

Dank Potato we need that as 8.0 prem tank that cost 15 bucks with an ace crew of 1 min reload max of 20 shots

[@seanlhil]

That wouldn’t work in wot tbh

[@Quickshot0]

To be fair, as you mentioned in the video, they started work on these guns in the mid 30s, when the air force was neither proven or quite as effective as they were entering WW2 with newer more powerful planes appearing. And their the Maginot line at the time was expected to have be cracked, because circumvention wasn't thought to be near so easy. It probably seemed like it was a sane enough proposal at start then. And well... once you have them, you might as well use them right? Try to get some of that investment back at least.

[@nairnmonster]

Great use of the music from The Grand Budapest Hotel!!!

[@Helicopterpilot16]

Damnit, I need to move to Europe. 5 hour drive to see something like that! In the US, it's more like 24+hour drive.

[@jacobburns2975]

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

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

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

[@romeox4879]

Luckily i live in europe

[@lukas4866]

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

[@mierul7991]

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

[@kiwan987]

Slinging them big ass shells over 40 miles backs then , must have been a sight to see

[@petergehlen4190]

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

[@SonOfLaVey1966]

I love the music, Grand Budapest is one of my all time favorite movies!

[@davecrupel2817]

2:57 i love how it had no recoil when aiming up. *All* that energy went into the shell.

[@florianvolk2901]

Bruh when i saw that museum i realised i've been there like 7 years ago when i was a child, i was like "Meh who cares about that sort of weapons" but today i seriusly wanna go back.

[@Leonidas1210vc]

Railway guns are honestly my favorite ww2 contraption. War trains in general are just amazing. I would love to have a game where you can use/customize war trains and just duke it out with others and shiz

[@phonie758]

: nasa, do u want a rocket or A cannon. :army, yes

[@buddaxkebab7092]

Should be added to german 6.7

[@NagglingAboutMeaninglessly]

Buddaxkebab tru tru

[@sarttee]

sure as long as the Atomic Bombs get to be added to the B-29.

[@melodrama9098]

Nah easy at 1.0 with some Panzerkampfwagen I

[@Death_Trooper-177]

@@sarttee hey guess what

[@georgiobenelli4854]

My great ( x3) was a kruppanier. Read the Arms of Krupp for a fascinating history of German Arms manufactoring from mid 1600's to 1980' when Krupp closed its doors.

[@jerseyjunior]

Thats hysterical about how sneaky the german gun crews were in Italy. I mean, using fake muzzle flashes and building real scale models of fake guns, all to throw off the ally airforce. I found that the most interesting bit of story-telling. Awesome research, mate. Loved this video.

[@davidca96]

I wish I could have been nearby to see/hear that thing go off, it had to be a huge blast.

[@postwar46]

Thanks for the post. Very informative.

[@peterburgess5974]

Excellent research and investigation. Thanks.

[@Dudders1999]

Brilliant video mate very informative

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

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

[@dustyrusty6840]

If I remember, there is one of these railway guns at the museum in Maryland. I went there when I was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for AIT when I was in the army, That had a range of about 25 miles

[@URProductions]

Krupp, the german company that built this gun, would later build some the truly gargantuan buckwheels and draglines at the mine I work at in Northern Canada, eh. These draglines are the most massive land vehicles ever built on Earth. One of these guys could pick the K-5 right up. And the bucketwheels... shit.. they could swing their load right over one these old guns.

[@WordBearer86]

They started out making dinnerware.

[@anthonyellsmore4532]

They made my wooden leg

[@conradmcdougall3629]

What is a "Canada"?

[@jeffstanley4593]

I saw a dragline operate many years ago in a kaolin mine. It was not one of the largest but was still huge. Perhaps the most impressive thing about it was that it was electrically operated. You have this monstrously large machine working and you can barely hear it. It was very quiet. The huge boom swings and it is noiseless.

[@falrus]

@@conradmcdougall3629 a colony of the UK

[@swastikazero3325]

"Enemy behemoth is now deployed"

[@carlmcdaniels1675]

There is one K5 currently in the US that I know of. It was one of the "Anzio Annie" guns. It is possible that the "Leopold" in the US might actually be "Robert". It is possible that the 280 mm "Atomic Annie" artillery series was based on the K5 - but was transported by road. Several "Atomic Annies" still exist...

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

Gotta hand it to the krauts, they were damn clever

[@alexspareone3872]

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

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

@@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.

[@НААТ]

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

[@Tatusiek_1]

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

[@akshayc6163]

Were they really racially superior?

[@Meme-o-Taur]

10:59 the also had a same idea for the gustav railway gun

[@godfreyberry1599]

Well researched and great presentation - thanks for sharing.

[@dapperfield595]

Imagine the fear of those Allied soldiers when they saw a giant shell coming towards them with no knowledge of where it was coming from.

[@jasonirwin4631]

If you got fired on by one of these the only way you would know is a random massive explosion. The shells moved to fast to be seen.

[@dapperfield595]

Not directly ofc, for example like a few hundred meter to your right/left

[@chrisraley6660]

Still, very doubtful you could see it no matter your vantage point. It would be moving way to fast. Things would just explode out of no where and that in itself is terrifying.

[@dapperfield595]

was kinda stupid 8 months ago, even thought iron was taIking about the gustav bit smarter now dont worries

[@mikeklaene4359]

Basically these were large naval guns mounted on railway trucks. Perfect for WW I . Politicians like the 'nifty' factor over the practical factor. The Germans may have been able to crack Great Britain had the developed both heavy bombers and long range fighters prior to the Battle of Britain.

[@paavobergmann4920]

Would have, may have, could have been.....In reality, the never had the range and transport capacity as well as the resources and logistics, and that´s that. Luckily.

[@MsSomeonenew]

One small nation against the world... ultimately they could never get it done, it's a miracle they got as far as they did with so few resources. At best they could hold down most of Europe and then convince the neighbors to play nice.

[@paavobergmann4920]

@MsSomeonenew: Well, they got that far by robbing, pillaging, raiding, enslaving and generally sucking their neighbors dry....

[@sarttee]

they did have long range fighter and heavy bombers... The French destroyed a majority of them at the AIR Battle for paris.

[@Enthropical_Thunder]

@@paavobergmann4920 Well, that's how you do war ;D.

[@dr.skulhamr3220]

My favorite map in Sniper Elite 4 is focused on a monster railway gun such as the one described in the video. Man is it fun to bring that baby down.

[@godlyoblivion]

Allies:We have incredibly powerful artillery Hitler:>cough

[@detectiveshaft9990]

A really neat and informative video. Thumbs up!

[@RobertHearn-hu2br]

Much respect and good report.Thankyou for not hiding history

[@yesman9094]

Will you make a vid about the schwerher gustav gun?

[@kugelblitz3154]

I wanna see a war thunder game mode where you have to protect something like this while it bombards an enemy base, also good video.

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

I did a video suggesting something like this a while back

[@TheHomeMaker1]

Also the k5 could only shoot about 600-1300 rounds before the entire barrel would have to be fully replaced which Late in the war the machine shops were bombed so no more barrels were built so the guns eventually were worthless the extreme firepower was so intense it would wear the barrel out completely

[@firefox5926]

5:32 ... how... how do you miss that for like 40 years....