Dora gun, the longest artery barrel in human history was to be assembled/disassembled and transported by railway with two brothels 20 girls each.

Symphonic Poem 'Mazeppa' S.100

The "s" in sevastopol stays for "shredderd

Yes

@@fvo911 Excuse me but whaa????

More like Warhammer 40k

The UT-AT has a bit of a resemblance (in function at least)

It's like a Metal Slug final boss

Warhammer 40k, not star wars

I fell like the empire in SW is modelled after Nazi Germany…

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And the shell weighs like 7 metric tons^^

The what?

@@paulvonhindenburg3668 projectile

@@dr.doppeldecker3832 -_-

"this is the new schewer German artillery"

@@austinschmuck7814 "And that's the new German heavy artillery."

“Das ischt the noir Schwerer Artilerry”

@@alec_GB “das ist die Neue deutsche schwere Artillerie”

More like a tank

@@Alex-cn3hg Brit: "It's raining... Tanks. " Germans: "You're welcome"

British? These were used on the eastern front

@@pumpkinlord1117 The gun's maximum range was 24 miles (38km) which in theory allowed the Germans to fire across the English channel and shell the British coastline from France, just like how they used the Paris gun to shell Paris

@@pumpkinlord1117 "just imagine"

no there was only a resolution of 10x15cm

Yes there was hd

Lucky to even be filmed

@WolfyGirl2077 ...

All the ppl there haven't even seen colours then

I think p-1500 would be better Look it up

@@abroczek5094 the best way is fill up the local dockyards with BISMARCKS

Yeah

@@abroczek5094 looool

Yeah man

Yep, advanced, deadly, and most importantly.... useless and use up supplies.

@@buddy4445 even tho im german (sadly.), i was laughing at your comment for a solid 4 minutes. But i agree.

@@buddy4445 Italian making this comment, wow fucking hilarious.

@@fakeaccount7750 sad being a german? You should be sad if You were a nazi...

@@trapbait1308 What are you saying. You should be happy to be german, and proud to be a Nazi

Yep and ultimately the Allies said, "You're about to get a big ol' slice of humble pie..." -FDR before D-Day, allegedly.

Didnt it manage to hit a ammo depot BELOW the water and blew it sky high? Pretty sure that no conventional artillery could do that

The point of this megaheavy artillery was to destroy the huge fortifications of France's Maginot Line, which turned out to be unnecessary due to the parallel rise of Blitzkrieg tactics plus some incredibly good luck by the Germans/very poor planning by the French. Against the very mobile and shifting front in Russia this type of weapon was less useful and, upon retrospect, probably a waste of resources and materials.

It destroyed Sevastopol so...

probably why they filmed a movie of it with dramatic music

Not only Thor. There were 7 Karls.

But Gustav is the friend who is always late

*deafeningly

They were actually given earbuds but the sound of the gun was so big that their drunheads acually exploded

I felt awful just sitting on a bus 100 meters from where a 75 mm coastal cannon was fired, and that was only blanks for salute, and I like "normal" fireworks. It felt like being hit with something massive in the chest. And Gustav had 10 times that caliber and fired shells...😶

@@francisdec1615 mhm my lungs feel the wind gettin knocked outta em just seeing this thing fire

Well 18 inch guns were known to cause serious damage if not kill people near the barbette when firing. God knows what that would do.

Was, until the americans steal all the german scientists xD

@@Flutschfingerbaron Oh yes, thats right... almost forgotten...

@@Flutschfingerbaron americans didn't "steal". They simply saw an opportunity and seized it for the good of their nation. This is why some countries succeed, they leave emotions out of it and focus on improving their economy. Even if it means taking in their enemy

@@No-bi3pbThey stole the guy who invented the rocket, the crew that invented the jet, they FORCED the pioneer-soldiers in the german army to work for them and after all of that they still lost the Space race.

@@pumpkinlord1117 WHAT COUNTRY are you claiming "lost the space race" Because Deutschland sure as f*ck DIDNT first step on the moon. ALSO your beloved countrymen assuming you mean "Wernher von Braun" suggested an “direct ascent” lunar landing vs Lunar orbital rendezvous that Nasa went with in the end. Not denying his brilliance but he wasn't the only scientist involved.

It’s amazing how skilled we are at killing each other

They were too skilled for their own good. They picked quality over quantity when quantity mattered more.

Actually these were far from being unreliable mechanically,they were rather impractical.

They were unreliable? Which shot wasn't fired as expected?

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Thanks

Danke Schön

Yay! Finally someone talking about these thing's history instead of making rather stupid comments about the "greatness" of the third Reich...

@Gilles - The Dora Railway Gun could only be fired once every 45 minutes. That's a lot of 'down time'.

@@Loulovesspeed Correct, it took a lot of time to lower the barrel after firing, reload a new shell and aim again. The shells used in the Schwerer Gustafs were 7.100 kg of weight... You are aware, the Dora was another gun as the Karl-Gerät, I mentioned in the original reaction? The Karl-Gerät was a mortar, transported via road trailers. The Dora was the 1st (and one of the 3) Schwerer-Gustavs, railway guns. Dora only fired 48 of her 80-cm shells at Sebastopol. Dora was transported to Leningrad but isn't used there. Dora is also the only Schwerer-Gustaf that is used in combat. The 2nd SG was build and tested but never left the test centre in Rügenwalde. The 3rd gun was destroyed when the Krupp factory in Essen was bombed. Dora is dismantled in Rügenwalde in 1944.

there were almost 8 karl gerats built

The "Thor" Karl-Gerät is the one that is now in Kubinka, beside the Maus

That's German engineered balls hanging above that monster

actually you want to be far away from the impact i imagine

@@gratler depend which ammo they used if its the "AP" shell then you dont need to be so far away and could actually watch it, but it sets out to where it lands at first, and when they used the HE shell then yeah better not be close when 4.8 Ton of Explosive is exploding

@@handgranate2008 It's an heavy Artillery, I doubt there's really an AP shell

I think the craters had a diameter of about 20 m

@@justmrcrow It did have an AP shell, it could penetrate 7 meters of concrete and had a 250 kg explosive charge. Also, the HE shell had a 700 kg explosive charge and made a 10 by 10 meter crater, which might not seem very large, but it was about the same as the Soviet FAB 5000 bomb, which had a much higher explosive mass of 3200 kg.

@goatsareevil Warhammer 40k where Gustav-like gun is mounted tank turret or mouted on city walls.

Yes, they had light WH40k artillery in WW2

wh4ok is pretty much SS in 400000

They say, Totale vernichtung

Überschuss

It wasn’t for overkill though, it was for siege warfare. These heavy artillery pieces were designed with smashing the Maginot Line into rubble. The German attack plan for France did not require the Gustav and the heavy mortars and howitzers. They found excellent use in destroying the nearly impenetrable Soviet fortresses at Sevastopol. They were never designed for regular every day fighting at the front…

Heheheheh - that's why I came here ;) never got around to Walter White until now

it will destroy building itself not just door lol

@Firat Güneş it will destroy an entire city block with ease.

But they did win, they went on to start the cia, nasa, and have a large German population in Argentina

@@Sin.Atonement Germans won the battle of big gun, but not the war of genocide!

@@Sin.Atonement But realistically, no. The Germans lost. And when Hitler killed himself, they lost their only leader. Germans did not win but their Rocket-Scientists did help NASA.

@ Paladin Videos. It has nothing to do with winning or losing. Germany is a small country in terms of population and resources on the one hand and in terms of crowds and resources on the other. There is no country the size of Germany that could win the war. Judging by the size and performance, Germany was probably vice world champion😅🙈. The video is only about the "Schweren Gustav and Thor"

They ended up making war weapons for USA.

Thank you.

you just to interlectual

But technically you did

So german post war propaganda or pre war propaganda? Cuz I would be surprised if this was post war propaganda and even more so if - as you seem to be incinuating - Germans themselves didn't make this propaganda.

America: Do you have corned beef? Germany: -_-

Do you have tanks with working transmission?

America: do you have a German Jewish professor who can help build atomic bombs? Germany: (:

@@thealmightyloaf2771 "More Armor you Say?"

Wow......so kreativ....noch nie gehört😜

50 meters? are u high?

haha

gabriel samonte there’s been a report that a shell made a 50 meter impact around an ammunition storage if i can recall correctly

@@Spinomaks Yeah the ammunition storage blew up.

You see it firing?! There wasnt video editor in 1940 lmfao

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Ach halt die Schnauze als ob du ne Ahnung hast das ist Deutsche Power

@@kevinmass2924 Genial.

What? A monstrous gun that moves slow as hell, requires one a half kilometers of train cars, thousands of men to operate and is the favorite target of airplanes? Yeah, such a feat.

@@LesPaul2006 gun powder was invented in china check and mate there mate

@@dukenukem8381 What? Did I say gunpowder was invented in Finland or something?

The Paris Gun was able to fire 75 miles or something similar. Schwerer Gustav had a better level of expertise placed in its construction, however both were massive failures because their accuracy was dirt at best and downright unpredictable at worst. Big guns can do useful things, to an extent, but at some point the size makes them useless in their actual combat role

Gustav could fire 118 miles not just 25

@Backseatwankercel like world of tanks lool it will kill 5 to 6 tanks per shoot

30 meters under ground (98ft)

They shot 5 days straight so i think 40min. Doesnt matters

@@BigMamaJama jesus thank you that you correcting him, the further you go down the comments, the range and depth of that cannon could actually do increases more and more xD

@@edelweiss- It kinda does. It was estimated, that Gustav could fire 100 rounds before the whole barrel had to be replaced, but the barrel was already too damaged after less than 50 shots. They wouldn't have been able to hold the rate of fire for all the time.

@@IndigoRyu still dont makes a different to the damage it caused

with the several hour reload time, I doubt it'd be much fun

30 min*

@@mikemolle 24*

It is already in the game. On Steppe map at the northern base right behind the map border u can see it

Not the biggest gun though. There are lots of medieval guns that are bigger (the Ottoman 1054mm Dardanelles Gun, also fired in combat, being the biggest). FYI, it required 60 oxen to move disassembled and had an accompanying crew of up to 400 men. It had to be cooled between shots with olive oil and required a lot of servicing when active.

@@billdexhart5179 why i can't find it?

@@feivellazuardi1867 www.historyanswers.co.uk/medieval-renaissance/ottoman-super-cannon-the-bombard-that-built-an-empire/

yeah because war time pushes technology further and especially faster forward then peace times, especially in the category of weapons. that you can see on the first ballistic missiles, to the first fighter jets, sure a lot of ideas failed but it pushed technology faster forward then peace, even when in the end it hits just civilians again. All i hope for is that humans never discover a better way to storage energy, because when we can get better battery storage, we already see first fully armored soldiers with exoskeletons, or even really hand held rail guns, all what is holding that back is the missing part of saving masses of energy in a smaller space.

No. Perfect for cracking enemy fortifications and only that. But in that role they excelled.

Danke schion Deutsche, Wo komms Du?

The point of the Gustav and the other heavy was to destroy forts.

@@oilersridersbluejays I pictured something kind of like that for them, I was just wondering if they might have been better used as a mainly defensive supplementary addition to the heartland's protection. I don't think it was winnable for their side but I do think that if some SG's and a Thor or three were plopped on to Berlin's defenses the battle of berlin likely would have been much harder.

Maybe. Germany lost air superiority during the Defence Of The Reich. These guns would have been assaulted from the air constantly and the Germans knew that. And the morale loss of losing these heavy artillery pieces would have been recasting. That’s why they were only for siege warfare.

@@oilersridersbluejays That's a fair cop. I think what I was trying to theorize on is how effective they might have been if used in support of static or semi-static defenses.

@@aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930 nah the reload on them would be to long to really disturb any forward marching front, since your limited from how far it can actually shot to a limit to how short it can actually shoot, therefore more usefull would have been flaktowers, since even when berlin was falling that towers werent destroyed, they even held high caliber (dont nail me on the caliber if it was 155 or 205mm something in that range) direct fire off, even pilots got the order to not get into the range of them, but they were not only a fighting "station" they were civillian shelters too, most of them are still standing to this day, some were tried to getting blown up but got mostly just internal damage, some got reworked as museums. they just stopped firing after the capitulation was accounced, but at least it gave some part of the civilians a protection.

You would only be able to fire one at a time unless you made the ship obnoxiously wide, the amount of energy transfer from such a large artillery piece being fired from the deck would cause the ship to list to the other side, not to mention the risk of accidentally blowing up the entire ship in case of ammunition going off in one of the barrels by accident. Remember, kids, gunpowder+fire = large explosion.

These don't go on sea ships, bro. They're gonna go on the new Space Force destroyers.

@@kronosomni2805 Shut the fuck up you sound younger than the idiot who commented this shit.

Because retards lmao. They could have probably managed this uselss "gun" with 200 people, maybe even less.

The 2000 people was to lay the railway to move the gun.

fake account they did use less then 200......

This is what I could find the background music is made up out of multiple classical pieces: Franz Liszt - Mazeppa, symphonic poems No. 6 franz liszt - les préludes symphonic poem no.3 s.97

It’s not a song.

You wouldn’t be close enough to even see it. It had ra ridiculous firing range. In fact, you probably wouldn’t have heard it fire, just the shell landing near you.

the only thing you would notice, depending on which shell they used is the buzzing/whirrling sound of the shell coming back downwards, like if somebody shot with a pistol beside you that whirrling sound but in a bit bigger dimension, for me its sad that most of that footage is propaganda stuff with that orchestra music, i would have loved to hear the "natural sounds" when it fires and when the shell goes off, here you can mostly just hear it in a short section only

Karl-Gerät

The Gustav and other heavy artillery were protected by an entire squadron of fighter planes, and Germany still had air superiority in the USSR at this time.

how does it increase the further you scroll down the comments here, it had a range of 47 km

You would t be alive today lol

Yeah, they diverted whole Flak-Companies just for that thing. Huge waste of Ressources

@harm dallmeyer not really a waste of resources actually. These guns were designed for siege warfare only, and they worked excellently in that capacity by destroying the fortresses at Sevastopol. And the Germans knew there was no other purpose for the Gustav and little purpose for the heavy mortars like Thor pictured here. They also had an entire fighter squadron assigned to defend them in addition to a flak battery. Also, don’t forget that in 1942 the Germans still had near-complete dominance of the Soviet airspace. They were at little risk of being attacked by Soviet aircraft, but they still needed to be defended just in case.

@@oilersridersbluejays thanks for information. that topic is very interesting and worth to study. i'll go to amazon to find some books

It sound epic!

It was dismantled by the Germans so the Allie’s couldn’t get their hands on it

@@legendary102 Thanks