Supermortar 650 mm (II WW)

[RayMundo]

Incredible.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora16.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora15.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora14.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora13.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora12.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora11.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora10.jpg


http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora09.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora08.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora07.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora06.jpg

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http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora01.jpg

[Big Lebowski]

it's railway gun though. not a mortar.

and yes... it's a big motherfooker! :)

[AFJROTC55]

i dont care what it is, but whatever it is, its big as FVCK, and whatever it wouldve hit would not have been happy, or even alive, or even on a map

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[meph.]

80 cm Kanone (E) "Dora"

http://www.waffenhq.de/panzer/dora.htm

[e_rik]

914mm heh..:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_David

[TheSun_CZ]

Thi is crazy...was it ever tested? If so then it would be nice to have some pictures of the impact area p-)

[Big Lebowski]

the guys that landed on Anzio beach in italy got a taste of "Anzio Annie" a batteri made up of two of these suckers! shelling the beach area

Anzio Anni was a knickname given to the guns by the allies. theIr real names where the Leopold and Robert.

[Heron]

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora07.jpg
PSed!!!










:)
hmm........i know it was real
huge and crazy

[Daniel San]

It was the case for WWI's Big Bertha and probably the same for the cannons used in WWII : rounds were labeled in the order they had to be fired because the cannon diameter would slightly augment after each firing.

So much power!

[Big Lebowski]

actully i think i got a vid of one of those things firing laying around somewhere

ill try to find it later

[B25Hmitchell]

I can't wait until they install that gun on the Super A-10.

[TallGuy]

I saw one of these railway guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, it was HUGE...

[NewsMan]

I saw one of these railway guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, it was HUGE...

Are they still in existience?

[TallGuy]

Are they still in existience?
Yes, they still exist but they're not used, I saw it at the base museum.

[Big Lebowski]

I saw one of these railway guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, it was HUGE...
is this it?
http://members.aol.com/ItalyWW2/AnzioAnnie.jpg

[Scourge]

Was known under the nickname "Karl" in WW2.

http://www.google.fr/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mortar+karl

[TallGuy]

is this it?
http://members.aol.com/ItalyWW2/AnzioAnnie.jpg
Yeah, that's it.

[Hellfish]

Was known under the nickname "Karl" in WW2.

http://www.google.fr/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mortar+karl

No. This is Karl:

http://www.hobbylinc.com/gr/tsm/tsm00209.jpg

Tracked. Not railway. One still exists at the Kubinka museum in Moscow.

[vryhpyammoadded]

I saw one of these railway guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, it was HUGE...

And most people visiting make the mistake identifying that humongous bomb looking thing in the grass near the railway gun for a block buster. It’s one of the rounds for Dora. I’ve got a picture somewhere of me and some friends taking a break eating lunch sitting on it during our visit. It’s something like a 8ton shell!!!

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/ffix1975-2/dora07.jpg

I'll see if I can find it and post it this weekend.

For a real big Mortar, check out little David http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/little-david.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/little-david-6.jpg

[Ruledbyjames]

Awesome photos!

[Silverdragon]

I saw one of these railway guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, it was HUGE...

A couple years back i remember stuff being blown up there but im not sure what it was. I was near aberdeen yesterday though

[Sergei]

Thi is crazy...was it ever tested? If so then it would be nice to have some pictures of the impact area p-)

Yep, it was used in the assault on Sevastopol in 1942. Couple of rounds destoryed one of the main guns of the 30th battery which protects the Sevastopol harbor. And that gun is 303 mm itself with lots of underground communications and support.

[Ericsson]

German Extreme Engineering
that canon was built by Krupp I think !!

Canadian genius Gerald Bull took the idea further, he developed long range artillery beyond what anyone else has accomplished
he develop South Africa artillery
and he also was building the Iraqi super gun.
he was latter Killed by the Mossad

[Paracaidista]

Check this page (http://members.tripod.com/~fingolfen/superheavy/superh.html) and specially the P1500 (http://members.tripod.com/~fingolfen/superheavy/p1500.html). Now, that is a tank :D

[Ronin_SVN]

Every shell had its own caliber. Biger than privius one.

[Equilbrium]

http://www.panzerlexikon.de/guns/eisenbahn2.htm

[Uruk-Hai]

I heard that his bullet many times don't explode.....
Also German use in Poland mortar called KARLL.... http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/karl.htm (http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/%7Ewhatfor/karl.htm)

[Big Lebowski]

BOOM!

http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/albums/germans/anzio_annie.sized.jpg (http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/germans/anzio_annie?full=1)