Found a cool video of the german railway gun.
 

yea, I found some stuff on youtube... pretty cool vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxyS...eature=related

this sucker is huge...:yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8Jh...eature=related

That is one BFG

looked up some stats

range: approximately 24 miles

rate of fire:

get this
about 14 rounds per day

here is a pic of one of its shells as it appears next to a tank...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ed_to_T-34.jpg

That is so cool.

I've seen a Dora shell up and close at the museum in Overloon
and yeah...its big :o

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5...0071459nx5.jpg

HunterICX

:o

That is one big shell!!


Has there been any artillery piece that's either matched or surpassed it's size since then?

There were some earlier guns that had a bigger caliber, but I don't think any gun matched the shellpower.

The American Little David mortar was also bigger, but it was a test weapon.

How did Big Babylon match?
It was to have a 39'' bore, 100ft length and a 470 mile range, but there are no details on shell size.

I remember seeing a section of it that was sized by UK customs on it's way to Iraq.

I saw a section last week down at Woolwich, big calibre! :o

If you got around $800, you can pickup this 1/35 scale model:

http://ca.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkzf...2%26bestseller

I guess that's too puny a scale for some people:

http://ca.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGk21.../DoraBuild.htm

Hmmm! I can't seem to enlarge some of the pictures. Anybody else have that problem? Looks pretty impressive what I can see.


Rob

Yeah, I can't enlarge the pics either, shame because it looks like an awesome model! :up:

Jesus! How do you load that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XnV9hJ_2As

like that:03:

HunterICX

Carefully and slowly :haha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1HF3Jr5w9w

(from 1:20 onwards)

Here's another link that show's more of that 1/6 scale Dora and other projects of his. I think we need to get this guy interested in subs.

http://ca.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGk2.....com/dora.html