However, THIS monster was seriously considered for about three months during WW2...
The Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte!
4 Feb 2018, 13:19
The REAL Railroad Guns .... And Other Amazing Weapons of WWII
OK, so I just wanted to start this thread as a place where you can post a picture of any truly spectacular war machines of the WWII era. I did that because I ran across this photo on the Internet and it made my jaw drop.
This is...indeed...a very massive Railroad gun. According to the original site viewed, historyinorbit.com -- a junk photo site -- it was called "The Schwerer Gustav" and was "a massive railway artillery cannon that was developed [by the Nazis] to break the Frenchβs Maginot line of defenses [that] saw limited use in the war."
Note the size of the people closer to the gun. If you compare their distance to the foreground with their distance to the gun itself (they are only half-way between the foreground people and the gun), you realize that this cannon was truly a gargantuan gun for the era.
I think it's almost akin to trying to mount a super-gigantic cannon to the Space Shuttle's moving launchpad.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.The saying, "beating them into submission until payday", is just golden...pun intended.
R.I.P. Snickers <3
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4 Feb 2018, 13:27 (edited)
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4 Feb 2018, 13:44
Progress-T
And this miracle beast is the Soviet gas-dynamic trawler "Progress-T".
In the tower there is a jet engine, from the temperature of the gas jet of which the mines had to explode. In fact, they flew in the opposite direction from the minesweeper.
4 Feb 2018, 16:07
The Land Mattress was some very impressive British rocket technology, think Nerbelwerfer with smaller rockets, and more of them.
5 Feb 2018, 12:30
Heavy Italian artillery on the flags of De Stefano
Characteristics of a heavy 305-mm howitzer:
Caliber: 305 mm
Barrel length: 5,881 m (L / 17)
Initial speed: 545 m / s
Angle of attack: 360 Β°
Elevation angle: + 20 Β° .. + 65 Β°
Projectile weight: 295..442 kg
Maximum firing range: 17,600 m
Rate of fire: from 5 to 12 per hour
Weight of the implement (for mod 917
- barrel with a shutter: 12 790 kg
- in combat position: 33 770 kg
- on the march: barreled carriage 17 510 kg, carriage 14 490 kg, platform 7 870 kg, wagon with platform base and property 7 840 kg
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5 Feb 2018, 12:41
T10 Sherman M4A2
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Π’-34 concrete
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5 Feb 2018, 16:48
That is some size Italian gun, how did they move it? Horses?
6 Feb 2018, 13:18 (edited)
Maybe horses, or maybe 10-20 people, took him to the battlefield!Quasi-duck wrote:
That is some size Italian gun, how did they move it? Horses?
6 Feb 2018, 13:42 (edited)
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M1895 12in Railway Gun.
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American 16-inch naval gun.
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Humongous railway gun TM-3-12 which used a gun from a battleship mounted on a train chassis.
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6 Feb 2018, 15:57 (edited)
I can't get over just how much I LOVE those tracked wheels. The pads look like they're kinda vulnerable from the sides, so I'd give them a wrap-around armor plate to cover their hinges. This makes me think that a heavy tank with a strong extended prong-like axle with gigantic wheel-tracks like these could safely scale the most extreme of terrains and inclines.Prince_Clark wrote:
Heavy Italian artillery on the flags of De StefanoCharacteristics of a heavy 305-mm howitzer:
Caliber: 305 mm
Barrel length: 5,881 m (L / 17)
Initial speed: 545 m / s
Angle of attack: 360 Β°
Elevation angle: + 20 Β° .. + 65 Β°
Projectile weight: 295..442 kg
Maximum firing range: 17,600 m
Rate of fire: from 5 to 12 per hour
Weight of the implement (for mod 917
- barrel with a shutter: 12 790 kg
- in combat position: 33 770 kg
- on the march: barreled carriage 17 510 kg, carriage 14 490 kg, platform 7 870 kg, wagon with platform base and property 7 840 kg
Does anyone know of some kind of tank that is capable of such extreme terrain or incline like a Jeep doing Rock Crawling, for example? I'm kinda thinking a supersize unimog on steroids with this Italian wheel design could be promising. Hm? The only one I know of is The Animal.
They did use horses. And the tow cable was made of tightly-woven spaghetti noodles.Quasi-duck wrote:
That is some size Italian gun, how did they move it? Horses?
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.The saying, "beating them into submission until payday", is just golden...pun intended.
R.I.P. Snickers <3
6 Feb 2018, 15:59 (edited)
That blocky tank looks like it'd be a pretty cheap build, but any decent shells fired at it would likely be it's deathknell.Prince_Clark wrote:
Π’-34 concrete
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.The saying, "beating them into submission until payday", is just golden...pun intended.
R.I.P. Snickers <3
6 Feb 2018, 16:05
To do this, the hull of the tank was supposed to be hung with metal boxes filled with concrete of 40 cm thickness. The tests showed that such a T-34 was not taken by Panther from 300 meters already. At the same time the weight of the tank increased by only 4 tons. And in winter it was supposed to use the so-called "ice-concrete". A mixture of gravel, sand and sawdust, filled with water. But the problem of fighting the "cats" of the demoniac was solved by installing an 85-mm cannon. And they refused such exotic projects.Diabolical wrote:
That blocky tank looks like it'd be a pretty cheap build, but any decent shells fired at it would likely be it's deathknell.Prince_Clark wrote:
Π’-34 concrete
6 Feb 2018, 17:35
Please, think of the horses. This is an artillery cannon, not for frontline use.Diabolical wrote:
The pads look like they're kinda vulnerable from the sides, so I'd give them a wrap-around armor plate to cover their hinges
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