German railway gun "GUSTAV"

[HofiStyla]

I don't understand it... if the nazis would have won the war, the technology would be so far, maybe we could fly with the speed of light by now... but if we at least would research that hard like german engineers by now... maybe in 50 years

[AKgunplay]

@HofiStyla Impossible to reach the speed of light, it slows down time

[Grifflaw]

@AKgunplay not sure that is the case did not CERN tests prove otherwise?

[ikkeennigij121]

their cause wasn't right but you have to admit..pretty awesome army!

[silver760]

These guns are so amazing they cause spontaneous ejaculation in ones Y-Fronts! The operators must have been marching around with raging hardons while loading these massive guns!It would be great to get either of the remaining K5's,one at Batterie Todt,the other at Aberdeen proving ground USA,into working order and fire a few shells.A new colour film of these firing would be of great interest.The surviving B/W films are all rather poor.

[Johnnyred51]

The 10,000 pound block buster dropped from a bomber packed a bigger punch and far more mobile. WWII was the beginning of air battle supremacy, making ground based weapons obsulete.

[montrealcdn]

so small country with so big potential

[laksemann]

I don't want to get hit in balls with that gun...

[montrealcdn]

@laksemann It won't even leave your balls if you get hit by that gun)

[Eyyoh77]

Yeah...we Germans got huuuuge dicks!

[mandoad1995]

Heil de Gustav ihr schweine!

der führer ist wiedah da >:D

[bollwerk69]

Da klapperts

[JimTLonW6]

What a colossal waste of effort! Takes ages to fire one shell, requires scores of men to operate it, restricted to rail lines. (And probably very difficult to move it when required).

The Germans did seem to have a fixation with enormously large guns, though it doesn't seem to have helped them in the long run.

[confuse]

so was this just a practice

[Garretthierisser]

great

[merovinger102]

da hatte wohl jemand eine extrem kleinen schwanz

[sniperpistol50]

thing is though people dont get the size of this thing. its 47 meters in length 11 meters tall and the barrel its self is 34 meters long the whole weight is over 1000 tons. and thats just gustav! Dora was huge! and the super tanks they were planning on building were so large that they made panzer and tiger tanks look like ants

[RoyalScopez]

the Gustav was too impratical.. too big, too much cost/soldiers to make it mobile, and shoot with it... I think the flak 88 cannons were good enough.. not this irreal big artillery cannon...

[schaeffersfelixxx]

alter was für riesen geschütze!!! shiiiiiit

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[TheAnatomica]

German Wepeons RUULLLEEESSSSSS

Wir sind halt die Besten °^____^°

[Groka123]

@TheAnatomica Ich könnte trotzdem auf sämtliche Waffen verzichten...

[rodelaax]

@TheAnatomica Ja die besten im Krieg verlieren und Millionen Menschen niedermetzeln. Naja, bei letzterem werden wir bald von den Amis überholt.

[Jeansschwimmer]

The speaker in the beginning says it all: Sebastopol was the target. The whole Crimean War had been fought to conquer it; so, if the Germans would be able to besiege and destroy it in no time, the eminent fear of the German public that the Russian campaign could only lead to a catastrophe would be taken away.

Other more symbolical names in the war were the Thermopylae in Greece and Verdun, Scapa Flow ( where the Highfleet had been scuttled in 1919) and of course Stralingrad ( panic resulted)

[skiegiek]

we should use that against taliban in afghanistan...

[Slaughter619]

@skiegiek why? The coalition has more effective weapons that are aloooooot smaller. and besides, this would be pointless in afgan, it had a Surfface AOE, making it useless against cave or underground bunkers. The Fuel air bomb is a much more effective choice for afgan. This would just be a fear monger weapon.

[skiegiek]

@Slaughter619 calm down dude...it was just a joke you weapon freak

[Slaughter619]

@skiegiek and if i dont want to calm down? and what if i was doin it 4 teh lulz of your reaction? And what if i wanted to quell the masses of stupid kids who would post huge coments agreeing with u b4 they even started? and yes, i am a weapon fanatic. I should be after a year in afgan.

[skiegiek]

@Slaughter619 wow you are a real hero -.- i bet you just worked in a kitchen in afghanistan...

[Slaughter619]

@skiegiek no i served with the canadian forces Royal 22nd Régiment . And i was only out there a year because im in the reserves, and the combat mission ended. Im not qualifyed to carry out a training mission. And there were no "kitchen workers" in afghanistan, just soldiers who could cook, and soldiers who got in a little trouble and had to clean dishes. So even if i did work in a kitchen there, i still would have seen combat.

[skiegiek]

@Slaughter619 im honored to write with john rambo himself

[Slaughter619]

@skiegiek i wish i was rambo man. Stalone was JACKED back then.

[ole9421]

I think the designer of the gun at 1:20 must have suffered from "little dick" syndrome.

[Nightwisher92]

music sounds like a happy god ol Disney Movie :D

[ateleri]

@Nightwisher92 preludios litz

[staydput]

Continuing on ...

The cross-channel gun was threatened by aircraft so the intent was to put it in a fixed mount with some slew... all of this underground very much in the style of the V3 project. Not knowing of the existence of this gambit the RAF none the less bombed the hell out of the construction sites for both AND the original V2 launch sites. These last looked exactly like 1960s Titan II missile bases -- though only two were in the plans.

More...

[staydput]

@staydput

It's the astounding barrel wear that 'ruined' the Gustav/Dora gun. Krupp never expected to see such erosion. Obviously, getting only 100 to 120 shots off from a barrel that took so long to produce made each round delivered much, much more expensive than a V1, V2 or a B17.

Not surprisingly, Speer canceled its ticket at the earliest opportunity. In 1966 Speer said he wished he'd canceled the V2 as well. Biggest preventable waste under his charge.

[mkzhero]

now imagine that in full auto... *drools*

[Thryon92]

i want a gun like this in front of my hous between my little garden gnomes :D

[6062006au]

Hitler was really crazy!

[staydput]

Actually, the Gustav gun worked even better than expected.

It's real problem, obviously, was air protection.

The other problem was barrel wear. After 100 rounds it's done!

Rate of fire was not too spectacular, all of these big monsters took 45 minutes to cycle through.

However, when ganged up the victim city would punched every 15 minutes all day long.

When used, every target fell.

[MegaJay5000]

@staydput i think your thinking of the a paris gun. there was no other gun like this one made. and i heard the paris gun could only fire 100 times. i dont know about the gustav gun

[staydput]

@MegaJay5000

Krupp intended to build 3 Gustav Guns -- they had contracts. But the tempo was so slow that it never came off.

Both the WWI 'Paris Gun' and Gustav had astounding barrel wear. Check out the Crimean shots. -- BTW, that's where all the vid comes from.

Krupp also worked up a variant using a reduced caliber shell. Dang thing almost went into orbit -- okay -- not quite.

IF the Germans had gone with a smooth bore performance would have been spectacular and much cheaper.

Tradition- rifles

[Varjensag]

That gun is scary as hell.

Still it's pretty vulnerable to aircrafts since it's forced to move on railways.

Though they did expect that they had the air superiority on their own soil.

Also moralfags can shut up. We know you're trolling because if you really did despise all manner of violence then you wouldn't be watching it on youtube.

[danidu85]

B.F.G

[highperformer]

what you see strating 1:19 is not Gustav but the sister gun Dora. Dora shot against Sewastopol. Gustav never reached the front.

[staydput]

@highperformer

The record is garbled, but the Gustav name came from Krupp and is in memory of their previous big boss.

The Dora name came from the Heer. They are both naming the exact same gun. Another gun was being built. (of three intended) Half-way through the project Hitler requested a cross-channel variant. This had a reduced bore and was test fired. The test mount was NOT a field deployable rig. ( Results were spectacular)

Barrel wear caused elements from gun 2 to go to Gustav.

[staydput]

@highperformer

The commander of 11th Army was sent up to Leningrad with his siege artillery. Aircraft became a threat and she was never able to bring her power to bear. At this point, von Manstein was called away to salvage the front after Uranus/Stalingrad pocket.

The gun was never found in the west. We did capture spare barrels in Bavaria. German testimony was that they were cut up and melted to protect their secrets.

So they almost fielded two guns -- until one got converted by Hitler.

[stevieRay3211]

Actually guns like this helped the Allies to win the war. Imagine the material and labour involved to design and build the thing, at a time when resources were scarce in Germany. Then the manpower to get it into the field and fire the thing. I think it took a whole battalion of men to fire a few rounds an hour. More grandeur than anything.

[staydput]

@stevieRay3211

It was a brigade and was commanded by a Major General -- as if it was a tank division.

It probably cost as much.

[testboy3]

Damn.

[impy15]

this video is totally awesome dude!

[SDAKILLER]

What is this for a video-format ? Mp1 ?

[DaireBoldizsar]

What is the music at the end?

[atheisttotindekist]

It's funny to know that such gun barrels are rated for just 1000 shots :D

[staydput]

@atheisttotindekist

Try 97 shots...

No kidding...

Then the barrel was replaced.

[kevinmoreira320]

and i shall call you METAL GEAR of the 2nd WW

[JJFP1]

The railway gun is the biggest gun ever. It is in the Guiness Book of Records

[cudaman82]

Great weapons but somewhat impractical for their time. If this was WW1, yes this would have worked well but for a mobile war like WW2...fail..

[Broommaster2000]

@cudaman82 I bet it was more like some designer-guy in the German army said "I bet I can make an even bigger gun" on which some must have replied "Why?"

Because we CAN.

[Guybrush369]

@Broommaster2000

that's probaby true. Because enthusiasm is all mankind needs.

He must have shouted "Yes, we can" over and over again, until everyone believed in him. He then was elected president. Wait....

[Broommaster2000]

@Guybrush369 Did you really just make a Hitler/Obama comparison?

[Guybrush369]

@Broommaster2000

no... lol

never mentioned hitler. hitler was a crazy fuck who knew how to manipulate people.

if you WANT to draw a line it's that people follow other people for no logical reasons but for emotional / psychological ones. Giving hope for example.

[goodfellas63]

@Guybrush369 And he had a mustage

[staydput]

@Broommaster2000

Actually Krupp received a request for a super gun that could destroy the Maginot forts AND stay far enough back to be out of counter-battery fire.

The engineers designed the shell first...

And then a gun that could fire the shell.

They actually did fire it at the Maginot line. It worked like a charm. No one was hurt. The test shots occurred in 1941 -- a year late!

They'd been building it for five years!

[FoersterX]

@cudaman82 RAILWAY gun = mobile, maginot line -> fail

[hardstyle905]

@cudaman82 fail? lol without our "impractical" weapons you would have never been on the Moon.

[19Legendary86]

@cudaman82 it was only used once and it was very effective against a town in the country today known as ucrania. the town had the biggest armored fortress at the time and it was succefully destroyed by the nazis using only this gun... although after use it was very damaged by its use and in need on maintnece. it took 4000 men to fire once! believe it or not! around 1000 soldiers and 3000 "volunters" from surrowding villages...

[staydput]

@cudaman82

Incorrect. In WWI it would have been overkill.

It was a single purpose gun: to destroy the French super forts.

Yes they did test it upon them.

However, the gun was not ready until after France had fallen to Tank Troops.

Against fortress cities it had merit. Not as much as an air force -- but it's a morale breaker.

One shell landed in the water -- went down 30 meters -- and then penetrated 10 meters of concrete -- detonating the main ammo reserve at Sevastapol.

Game over.

[martinaee]

@cudaman82 Impractical I guess... but surely devastating in it's capabilities. It was intended to be used along a certain line path. And could fire normal rounds 23 miles--- so even though yeah... It couldn't go "off-roading" it could reach quite a distance.

[huswsimonbla]

@cudaman82 exactly.. not to mention the up to 3000men necessary to maintain them and the time it took to fire one round.. bound too much men for too long in one position so for ww2 and absolute fail.. only in sewastopol and for the maginot line they were needed!

[GarryLinecker]

@cudaman82 range: 35 km! needless? lol, german army invented mobile war!

[ThMooningCat]

@cudaman82

The destruction of the french railways is one of the reasons why the germans lost the war at the western front. If they had a perfect working railway system, they may won the second world war.. there goes your mobility..

[nocandy4u2]

@cudaman82 Generals are always fighting yesterday's war

[CheeseDm0n]

@cudaman82 What are you talking about? WW2 was not mobile at all. It took days for cities to be captured...This baby put out entire blocks with unprecedented precision from 23 miles away........PER SHOT.

[101andrewj]

its 2 bad that sweet giant weapons like those made by nazi germany in 1940s will never exist again..... if there was a railroad cannon target nowadays it could be shot from a satellite in orbit....

[livingjustfordying]

gustav fired 4,800kg HE round, high explosive, but what is the 7,100kg CP round? plus, it had 10,000 mm concerete pentration :-X

but still, to many resources, not that great.

brittish had better things, yet not artillary. germans had V2's, gustav n stuff, we had spitfires, barns wallace's inventions and colossus :D

[Pigdogmeat]

If they ran outa ammo they could always put men in the tube and fire them!

[jasincl]

@Pigdogmeat or they could ask chuck norris >:)

[h4n5p3t0r]

@Pigdogmeat hehehehe lol

[dillshow1]

@Pigdogmeat yup that would ruen your day some random nazi comes crashing through your roof

[Pigdogmeat]

@dillshow1 it would be a very fast insertion haha

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

I would have loved to be an artillerymann oder flieger in The Great War & The Big One

[callofdutysnipe]

Darf man solchen rotz auf youtube zeign ?

[PlaygroundJoe]

0.05 rounds per minute?

[Nylonheellover72]

Monsterweapons....

[MrMatiasman]

if the germans didnt attack russian when they did we would all be hailin hitler's son -_- glad we arent :)

[shototsu]

Did he die?

[mmonrealc]

perfect to hunt pigeons

[daedulus1]

wonder how many anti tank and anti air batteries with the money they spent to make that monster. must have been a night mare to move it anywhere.

[f1fan65]

@daedulus1 it took 250 people 3 days to assemble.

[Sidslotm]

The Germans didn't win WW2 because the idiots that ran that great country at the time felt the need to make war with all their neighbours and waste so much time building stuff like this gun

[arthurwilmslow]

Remind me again why the germans did not win the war- man what bloody big guns they had-they would of reached the uk- gordon bennett

[nairda55555]

can anyone tell me the piece that is playing, i know it ends with a segment from "russianlied" but that may be because russiandlied took it from this piece.

[Elthenar]

Never underestimate the German ability to go way to damn far (and almost get there).

[regrov]

what this song :D?

[pepe237]

Interesting, but this was already an obsolete weapon for WWII. It's more a kind of weapon for WWI, but in the 1940s it would have been much better to invest in a good air force, instead of employing so much time and work in constructing a weapon that could not win the war...

[MrWooaa]

however, this thing coud make a 15m cratror. it was ment to tear the majonay line ( i know i speled it wrong) apart. however, by the time it was finished, it was nolonger needed. so the Nazis put it to good use fuking up Russa.

[rhodri24]

awesome or aweful?

either way it electrifies my soul.

: ) !!!

[OldManMidwest]

lol 2:11-2:21

[snigglesthedestroyer]

think the germans were over compensating for something with that big gun

[b1gbird001]

by which time, airstrike, tanks or god knows what could have crawled up and disabled the emplacement.

[Snake87deluxe]

immer wieder beeindruckend was Menschen alles bauen, um sich selbst zu töten

[verwoerd]

einander, nicht sich selbst...

[Dt0x75]

idk what would be worse.....being on the business end of that or one of the ones firing it.....

[nairda55555]

if they had built several Schwerer Gustav's on the atlantic wall its long range would have allowed it to bombard london.

[TheNigraX]

wrong, the width of the english channel is just about the full range of Schwerer Gustav, London is much further inland

[nairda55555]

actualy your right, the schwerer gustave did not have the range to reach london. the gun i was thinking of was the Langer Gustav. this gun was never built and only the blueprints were made but if it was completed it would use 680kg rocket assisted projectiles to fire at a range of 190km. the distance from london to calais(the nearest city accross the channel) is 149km.

[TheNigraX]

interesting

[clapyourhandsify]

almost as big as my dick

[MrEdobob]

lol

[1118559]

the cannon could still be made but it be uber expensive

[TheNigraX]

Saddam had one made, remember the "Iraqi supergun?!?

[b1gbird001]

@ Nigra. they have parts of the prototype. the one HE intended to use was designed as 7x the size of the prototype.... google it

[bababombwala]

and the canadian man asked to make it gerald bull was assasinated in 1990 by israeli mossad

[squrrilhunter432]

holy crap i will tack that duck hunting next time lol

[Rofl890]

Holy Shit! I wonder how much time it took between shots on the gustav. That would be cool if it could like rapid fire like 3

[kalinga01]

this took 15 min between shots.

[TheNigraX]

30-45 mins

[kalinga01]

I meant the time it took to load the shell alone, not the entire process

[EtaCarinaez]

Germans knew how to fight wars, too bad they fought the whole world at once.

[jakefree25]

@EtaCarinaez They weren't too smart in not taking Leningrad. They could've linked up with the Finns then opened the port and bay for supplies & their navy

[Froxz0r]

@EtaCarinaez Sure, the whole world at that time was Russia? please.. Germany tooked Euprope and they couldn't fight the Russians..

[EtaCarinaez]

@Froxz0r

Europe, Soviet Union, United States of America, North Africa..

"Germans couldn't fight the Russians" ? lol, within several weeks the German tanks were already standing at the gates of Moscow.

[zookatone]

@Froxz0r

Go get some infos before posting nonsense like that. Germany was at war with at least 50 Nations. In the countries they conquered already there still was resistance.

Youre right they didnt fight the WHOLE world. But the list of countries they werent at war with is way shorter.

[Froxz0r]

@zookatone ye.. I know that too... but those resistances were small groups, and the Germans searched for them room-by-room, so this wasn't really affective, uhh.. I think.

[Lioyd1rving]

@EtaCarinaez Too BAD !? o_O

[to88he]

@EtaCarinaez That's right they where better than all the other nations in quality, equipment and tactics. They only thing they lacked was enough manpower. Look at the tanks for instance. German tanks was twice as good as any American, British or Russian tank, but again they had too few of them. American Shermans and Russian T34 being bulit in qantity in stead of quality prooved too much for them to handle.

[staydput]

@EtaCarinaez

Better at the start than the finish.

[SonntagsSoldat]

@EtaCarinaez omg very bad yes i wish hitler won and he only was killing 6 million jews but hey thats ok

please informe you where ever(wikipedia) about germany and then u can writte sillly stuff

[scabw]

O M G !!! That thing is huge!

[freshmasterpimp]

Thanks for the video.

[silverspoon97]

lol! 0:56 no offense to the Germans its just pretty funny

[BMuris]

Nice! What a piece of engineering back at the time.

Thanks for sharing the video.

[panzerdivision100]

wow...na also-es geht doch

[regrov]

Nice song Nice video :D

jew killer cannon ;)

[rrraul21]

@regrov natzi whore

[f1fan65]

@regrov actually these were on the eastern front bombing the shit out of leningrad.

[jakefree25]

@regrov Figures, prolly decended from Nazi collaborators, Arrow Cross scum

[PhantomUAV]

@regrov - silly child

[celt1299]

LOOK AT THAT SEXY THING!!!!

[sssqqq64d]

@celt1299 , are you man or woman, i ask this because seeing this might of engineering being lifted from its flacide position seems to have an effect on you. How can you call this thing sexy? I would be wondering what feeling you have going through your lions whence it is fired. A machine that f..keds people in large numbers is hardly sexy.

[sssqqq64d]

@celt1299 yur fuck in the head, how is that sexy, is it the way it raise's itself into position, all erect and ready to unleash its load that you find sexy, or because it can fuck a number of people all at once

[guilhermecolichini]

The first one "Thor" is a mortar, not a rail gun

[bigbradford69]

ENGLISH MUCH?

[MoonlightArsenica]

if this is a rail gun, then whats Dora? (i think dora is the one manned by 500 people, might not be right though....)

[bullstriker1992]

Dora and Gustav are the same model they just have different names both are railwayguns

[knekelkees]

Dora is also a railwaygun there were about 2000 men on the gun there were alone 250 men for the firing it fired 2 shells an hour.

[DrChemicalX3]

Holy Fucking Shit - You Could Nail An Empire With This THing.

[shadowphoenix13]

Lol as long as it had rails

[wjpferr]

No one can deny who the superior nation in terms of technology is, the Germans fast forwareded the world into the future during WWII. Even now they are simply amazing with technology.

[tipodearriba]

did you know that the best germans cientists and engineers were jews?

like Einstein who made the heavy water bomb and the american atomic bomb. and many many more

[pandaman20]

i don't disagree with you at all, but the US also creating the p51 Mustang which outperformed the Luftwaffe's aircraft. We also produced some of the finest naval ships in the world, but yes Germany was amazing with what they made

[rantanplan36]

Jaja, die Herrenmenschen... haben sie versagt und sind se gefickt worden... doof jetz.

[dizzypilots1]

you have to love german precision

[T3rr0rc0Re]

lkw´s verschießen <3

gustav deutscher stolz schade dass es kein model in original größe giebt ...

[Apocalyon]

Arschloch...

[rantanplan36]

na, noch arschgefickt, Fascho?

[Apocalyon]

Ne, eig. nicht.

[rantanplan36]

warum dann so unausgegelichen?

[sdkfz162kingtiger]

Dein Vater?

[SuPaKHuNT]

The guy who invented Gustav must of had a really small penis.........

[Wolfpak23]

@SuPaKHuNT or his penis was big but not big enough for his taste :D