Big Gun of WW2 Revealed (Dora and Gustav)

The immense weapon you can see have existed. Moreover, there were two of these incredible guns. It has been manufactured by Krupp for the third Reich during WW-2. Hitler wanted “a gun able to pierce a meter of stell, seven meters of concrete, or thirty meters of dense earth”.

Three calibers could have been used: 700, 800 and even 1000 mm! Even now, we can hardly imagine how we could manufacture the enormous 290 tonnen barrel, an huge steel pipe, 32 meters long. Monobloc trunion craddles, on which are put the trunion pins of the barrel, are as tall as a 4-floor building. It was ready for action in late 1942.

Unfortunately (for the gun), all its targets where almost down or captured at this time: the Maginot line, Gibraltar…

The only target the Dora crushed was Sevastopol. During five days, the gun shot 48 shells over 7 targets. Its monstruous power put down the forts of the town, delivering never seen damage at each shot.

Dora was broken up before the end of the war, being discovered in the west by American troops some time after the discovery of Schwerer Gustav.

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