Top 10 Biggest and largest Ammunition Explosive Shells

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Embark on a journey through military history as we delve into the realm of the "10 Biggest and largest Ammunition Explosive Shells." From towering mortar rounds to colossal artillery projectiles, this exploration unveils the monumental impact of these awe-inspiring weapons. Let us unveil the stories behind some of the largest and most influential explosive shells ever created, showcasing the intricate balance between technological innovation, strategic necessity, and the sheer scale of destruction in the annals of military ordnance.
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@kasemuffin6133 3 ай бұрын

According to this list girth is more important than length and weight when determining size. I guess that makes some people happy😂

@hyacinthbucket3803 3 ай бұрын

Not so much for Long Dong Silver.

@jeffsiewert1258 3 ай бұрын

Every gun ever fielded is defined, at least in part, by the bore diameter, since smokeless powder replaced black powder.. where have you been?

@valuedhumanoid6574 3 ай бұрын

I plow wide, not deep

@wstraughn9507 2 ай бұрын

As in most things, context is important!

@colmoshaughnessy6587 3 ай бұрын

A lot of incorrect facts

@Wheresmy240 3 ай бұрын

Figures

@atomicwedgie8176 3 ай бұрын

Summations

@David_from_GER 3 ай бұрын

Please give some examples. It’s not fair to generalize that there might be incorrect facts. A good comment should prove its accusations.

@colmoshaughnessy6587 3 ай бұрын

Hms fourius was operated during world war one not two

@mahbriggs 3 ай бұрын

@colmoshaughnessy6587 I checked the Naval ship list! There is no HMS Fourious listed! Now if you mean HMS Furious, then she did indeed mount an 18 inch gun in WW1. However it's gun did operate in WW2 on one of the monitors.

@belustigungspanda6128 3 ай бұрын

5:05 It's not "Karl-Great" but "Karl-Gerät", literally meaning "Karl device".

@David_from_GER 3 ай бұрын

Actually, the subtitles were correct. I guess, the German word “Gerät“ is not the easiest word to pronounce correctly 😉. I definitely like the videos and I find it kinda cute how the author pronounces German words 😊.

@1337fraggzb00N 2 ай бұрын

DEUTSCHLAND

@kevinklein8889 2 ай бұрын

In Germany we say Schwerer Gustav!

@citylights8678 2 ай бұрын

Its an AI voice

@OliverSchroeder 2 ай бұрын

@@citylights8678Oh, really? What a pity! Her lisping is so cute, sounds a bit like Dutch accent! 🥰

@voltsoftruthBSbuster 3 ай бұрын

Tzar cannon had a diameter of 890mm shell or 35inch. The diameter of the barrel was 1400mm or 41inch. Its still on display. I saw it when I was a kid visiting Moscow. Its very humbling to stand next to something that massive makes you come with terms that you are really insignificant and feable when compared to this monstrous weapons of war. Just to imagine a shell 38 tons in weight moving through the air at several thousand feet per second at you position can make you pass out from sheer fear. We are talking about a shell that has a weight comparable to a lightweight to midweight tank. WW2 Soviet T34 weight between 29-35 tons. The American Sherman weight 33 tons. So its not a far fetch to say that you are being bombarded by tanks, which are moving at around 1000-1500 feet per second. Its sheer lunacy.

@Fergutor 3 ай бұрын

No, the whole cannon had that weight, not the shell!

@user-yl4us2ol5h 3 ай бұрын

Это сама пушка весила столько. И если верить исследованиям, Царь-пушка не пригодна для ведения огня. Внутренняя часть ствола не обработана после отливки, и заправочное отверстие вовсе не просверлино. Из неё не возможно стрелять.

@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 3 ай бұрын

HEY GAIJIN, YOU KNOW WHAT WE WANT!

@kristelvidhi5038 3 ай бұрын

2:52 that's not Yamato, it's Kongo.

@niclasjohansson4333 3 ай бұрын

Its actually Nagato or Mutso....

@kristelvidhi5038 3 ай бұрын

@@niclasjohansson4333 yeah, they do look very similair.

@donaldcarey114 3 ай бұрын

The triple turret (with one gun elevated), was the Yamato.

@kristelvidhi5038 3 ай бұрын

@@sjonniesjaak6781 that's like saying North Carolina and Iowa don't look the same.

@MaxCroat 2 ай бұрын

@@kristelvidhi5038 Actually, the visual differences between Kongo and Nagato classes are much greater than North Carolina and Iowa, although this isn't really that obvious from the angle seen in the photo in the video. Just looking at the gun turrets, the two turrets on the aft end of Kongo class ships are spaced out quite a bit, whereas they are superfiring on the Nagato class ships. This is just one obvious difference.

@bobgroenewald 2 ай бұрын

this is crazy! they even managed to emulate schisis for the AI voice over!

@fredfred2363 3 ай бұрын

How difficult is it for you to spend just a few minutes fact checking? Within 30 seconds on Google and Wikipedia, there are numerous details showing that a lot of your information is completely wrong. Do better!

@keirfarnum6811 3 ай бұрын

Big badda boom! 💥

@Ratzfourtyfour 2 ай бұрын

Gustav & Dora weren't railway guns, the just used curved tracks to traverse.

@squirrel_82 3 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ, would it kill you guys to get your facts straight......

@patrickporter6536 3 ай бұрын

Biggest and largest? Wow..

@patrickradcliffe3837 3 ай бұрын

5:24 tactical role not strategic. It was limited to just a few miles it was a close fire support weapon.

@bjchorny 3 ай бұрын

Like a champagne super nova on the ground

@artdawggy 3 ай бұрын

Is your software really incapable of pronouncing diameter? 🙄

@dannyshaw2975 3 ай бұрын

Yes it is that bad, I herd it too.I find it. hard to believe that only you &I cot It?

@AnyClownShoe 3 ай бұрын

I stopped listening at “Thomas”

@oerlikon20mm29 2 ай бұрын

@@dannyshaw2975cot lol

@buckgulick3968 3 ай бұрын

Oh sure the 600mm Karl-Gerät was impressive, but any "Girls und Panzer" fan can testify it is no match against the power of a common Hetzer tank!

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 3 ай бұрын

"Panzer Vor!" "Panties did WHAT!?" 🤣💀❤️

@tankenjoyer9175 2 ай бұрын

lol fr this thing shot it in mid air in the cannon

@oerlikon20mm29 2 ай бұрын

Any Breaking Bad fan will tell you it’s no match for bag of thermite

@HistoryVibes-Documentaries 3 ай бұрын

This is some quality information

@kmcc01 3 ай бұрын

Sarcasm is a wonderful part of speech and humor.

@kimmer6 3 ай бұрын

So, the 16''-50 is for a squirrel gun?

@frednone 3 ай бұрын

The 16" super heavy shell weighed only 200 pounds less than the 18".

@hitoshisawa8479 3 ай бұрын

@@frednoneand 100fp later slower but had less Rand then the 18inch

@XrayMike17plus1 3 ай бұрын

A critical metric is missing - range. Kind of incomplete without that.

@7DaysChanel_VandenReich 3 ай бұрын

Where is Tsar cannon? That cannon was made in 1586. It's shell diameter is 890mm. The diameter of the barrel is 1400mm. This cannon is in Moscow Museum of Artillery now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Cannon

@user-er8dw4kq5p 3 ай бұрын

❤

@congerthomas1812 3 ай бұрын

16"

@cosmosj7907 3 ай бұрын

I love the narrators voice

@OliverSchroeder 2 ай бұрын

Me too - though it's said to be synthetic.

@frednone 3 ай бұрын

Should have gone with bursting charge, rather than diameter.

@dimitarkehayov9476 3 ай бұрын

Gustav rocks

@radwanderer6165 3 ай бұрын

...for a few shells. But after only a few shots, the accuracy dropped increasingly. It was impressive, first of all, rather than really useful. Also because of the lack of maneuverability. There had to be four Rails laid side by side before bringing this gun to the wanted place and position.

@proteusnz99 3 ай бұрын

Should have reported the active service period for each shell.

@dsarti1 3 ай бұрын

Us had no 18in navy gun

@KJAkk 3 ай бұрын

Prototypes 18inch guns yes, active service no.

@leechjim8023 2 ай бұрын

Lots of incorrect pronunciation!☹️

@aetopus1228 2 ай бұрын

Biggest AND largest? You left out the hugest and most gigantic.

@benquinneyiii7941 3 ай бұрын

Impractical

@scottbishop7899 3 ай бұрын

Size isn't everything!! ;-) lol The W48 was an American nuclear artillery shell, capable of being fired from any standard 155-millimetre (6.1 in) howitzer. A tactical nuclear weapon, it was manufactured starting in 1963, and all units were retired in 1992. It was known as the XM454 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) in US service.

@drtidrow 3 ай бұрын

That was the small one, the 11" shell that was test-fired from a road-mobile gun (nicknamed "Atomic Annie") had a yield of 15 kilotons, about the same yield as the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The same warhead was later fitted to a 16" shell that the Iowa-class battleships could fire.

@scottbishop7899 3 ай бұрын

@@drtidrow You're forgetting abiut W54 'Davy Crocket" too, I only brought these up as the title said biggest explosive artillery shells and I thought some mention of these would come up as they may not be the biggest in the traditional sense but in the explosive yield they are the most 'explosive' artillery shells out there??

@drtidrow 3 ай бұрын

@@scottbishop7899 I didn't forget about it, but it's not really a traditional "cannon" shell. Also got used as the "Special Atomic Demolition Munition", a literal "backpack" nuke. Have you seen the Fat Electrician's videos about Atomic Annie and the Davy Crockett? Definitely recommended if you haven't. 🙂

@scottbishop7899 3 ай бұрын

@@drtidrow I thought from the title some of the nuclear variants might be mentioned but realised it was more of a traditional artillery type shells that were showcased, seeing the sheer size of these shells is crazy to see though. I'll have to check out those other videos at some point lol 👍

@gasparguadalupethecante6377 3 ай бұрын

the best the buzz

@rachidkingofficiel2245 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@krashd 3 ай бұрын

3:13 looks like a screenshot from an Amiga game.

@0venchip 3 ай бұрын

diameter should be called dia-metre from now on

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 3 ай бұрын

@ 5:58 Talks about a 610mm (24") Civil War mortar shell, shows picture a 305mm (12") mortar. 🧐 Maybe there isn't a picture of a 2 footer available? 🤔 This video reminds me of that line from that song about Sinking the Bismark, specifically the line that goes "shells the size of trees, and guns as big as steers" I always get this cartoonish image in my head of a cattle sized gun spitting out a round the length of a telephone pole. 🤣

@DEZBACK 2 ай бұрын

Что хотел сказать автор называя детский возраст решительно не понятно. При чём тут года ?

@ethanondablock1745 2 ай бұрын

biggest was used by the ottomans named Dardanelles Gun 918 mm

@oresteba 3 ай бұрын

Shuurer Gustaav 😂😂😂

@thomas82311 Ай бұрын

Also us never used the 18in gun

@izuix5629 3 ай бұрын

5:52 🧻

@bigmock141 3 ай бұрын

It should be weight over size

@user-mr6pc7zl9g 3 ай бұрын

ahhh kasemuffin that was a terrible thing to say :)

@user-zn1iv2xu9m 3 ай бұрын

What about the scale? Why is a 460mm projectile a third thicker than 457mm? There's also a difference of 3 mm! And the core is 508mm high, almost waist-high to a man? It's only half a meter there! A 520mm projectile is twice as thick as a 457mm!!! No! It's only 63mm! The 610mm core is again shown 2 times wider than the 600mm projectile - what is the author smoking?! In the photo, the guns for this caliber generally have a mortar with a caliber of 16-17 inches no more! You can even see the core under the soldier's foot! And the photo is not of the French, but of the American army. Why are a mortar shell and a mortar shell having the same caliber of 914mm so different in width?

@ifga16 3 ай бұрын

Poor use of images for several guns. Using a US Civil War mortar to represent the Belgian piece is confusing. The British 18" is pictured on a Lord Clive class monitor which was more stable than HMS Furious which would have shaken itself apart. Pronunciation is fairly poor too.

@FlangeMaster10 3 ай бұрын

Very wrong, the largest gun carried on a warship was Mons Meg. 510mm mounted on The Michael Scotland flagship.

@stevenschalck2781 2 ай бұрын

There are smaller rounds that pack a bigger punch. This whole thing is full of issues

@markpope9205 2 ай бұрын

I laugh very time she tried to pronounce diameter

@sniperkit8 3 ай бұрын

Amerika with an old stone 😅

@anasqai 3 ай бұрын

Why this exist to believe existence as actually none? Definition-Acting an Understanding as a Learning Material of Vocabulary?

@anothersquid 3 ай бұрын

Pity a human actor couldn't have been used for the voice.

@thomas82311 Ай бұрын

Meny repeating comments

@jonathanklein383 3 ай бұрын

458.2mm aka british 18 inch was used in ww1 not ww2 most notably on coastal bombardment ships. Do some research and get a real voice.

@billbailey1620 3 ай бұрын

406mm 16 inch us.457mm 18 yamato japan.

@getreal2977 3 ай бұрын

*cringes at the horrible pronunciations*

@YouTubeSaysThereCantBeTwoRyans 3 ай бұрын

8:33 thats not a "shell" that's a cannon ball

@Tommy1198S 3 ай бұрын

Smash it and it'll get fat real quick.

@ChristLink-Channel 3 ай бұрын

REally sill yo refer to the diameter of American guns in mm, when the Americans themselves always refer to them in inches... and engineer them in inches!

@FlangeMaster10 3 ай бұрын

This site is rubbish.