"Little David" mortar

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*sigh* they don't make videos like this anymore...

[Yan1Dex]

охуеть

[SedegovIlya]

нишутя

[BeefPortugues]

Best name for a mortar so far: the ww1 canadian "Blind Pig LOLZ"... yeah...

[keiweak]

too big and unwieldy. what the purpose again?

[gautamon]

@keiweak it was built for testing the aerial bombs and to the end of the war it was rebuilt because americans were expecting heavy fortifications in Japan. but Japans did not have any so the gun has never been used in combat.

[AUG351]

@gautamon I thought I had heard they used it at Okinawa to take out some fortifications neer Shuri?

[ycebotz]

Lmao,what a holeeeeee...

[damncritics]

"little"... right...

[KiwiLovin7]

Tiny-ass sight for a big-ass mortar.

[jmantime]

imagine this as a kill streak reward in call of duty

[Ipwnzombs]

I am so going to do a knock knock game at someone I hates front door wid dis

[s2117774]

Chuck Norris called. He wants his BB gun back

[TheMystery98]

How to make your own 914mm mortar!!! XDDD

[AdamSavage88]

.....By the time its set up the enemy would be out of range....

[MrSGL21]

@AdamSavage88 unless the enemy was hunkered down in a fort. patton had a devil of a time with a series or forts in Belgium if I recall. No doubt this mortar was developed, too late, to be used against such fortifications.

[asdxxme]

3:03 WHAT A RECOIL OMG, destroying all around

[asdxxme]

david waaaaaaaaaaaa? little?

[TheDukeof91]

You all write about schwerer Gustaf. When you really mean the german super gun, search after Dora-gun. Dora was the only one of these massif weapons. Gustav was the second one of these guns, but it was never finished.

And yes, there were plans to mount it on a tank. But it was only one from the many utopic super weapons which german designers draw down in the end of the war, so you can't really take this to serious, cause it was just a mad idea and no details about this thing were written down.

[cartmanrulez32]

how is this bigger than the gustav gun?

[BerliozT]

@cartmanrulez32 i dont think it is,its the caliber thats bigger

[Greedsux]

mallets mortar is only 14 mm smaller than this one

[purpleravenstar]

Is this one available for concealed carry?

[lapweed]

Rly biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiig gun for biiiiiiiiiig mans :D

[sildenafiltartrate]

.....at the height of the space war between the usa and ussr, there was a problem of writing in weightless space. NASA, MIT, and Stanford pumped in millions of dollars and years, to try and invent a pen wth ink that would work smoothly even in zero gravity space........the russians just used pencils.....

[hatbootfish]

@sildenafiltartrate iv heard that befor. that is just LULZ

[CDDCX]

@sildenafiltartrate to that i have to say pwned

[Namolis]

@sildenafiltartrate That story is verified bullshit. The Parker Pen Company spent about one million of its own money on such a project, but did it as a gimmick to sell something with "space" attached to it. No public money was spent.

[killerzee11]

@Namolis I think you mean the Fisher Space Pen company

[cartmanrulez32]

@sildenafiltartrate pens are less likely to pierce space suits unlike pencils :p unless its a dull pencil.

[vegax14]

@sildenafiltartrate that is a false story. the inventor was actually just an American engineer who wanted to help out the space program when he heard of the problems associated with using wooden pencils in a pure oxygen environment(i.e.bursting into flames). he designed it by himself. the soviets started using his design as well afterwards

[edawg792]

@sildenafiltartrate That is so not true it is not even funny. Like seriously, the Russians purchased and used the space pens as soon as they were created, and NASA is a separate department. Also, what do you think the US used before the space pen? Pencils. Do a little research. Please. Thank you.

[spoonmator]

@sildenafiltartrate You can't use a pencil in space, the tiny layers or graphite don't stick to the paper and they float around and get caught in things.

[sepaol]

@spoonmator yes you can use a pencil in space, isn't the gravity what makes the pencils can write... if you tourn down a paper with stuff written in pencil it falls? the answer is nope.avi

[BigJakeP]

@sildenafiltartrate

Snopes says false. 

[921945]

@sildenafiltartrate

That's an old myth, NASA also used pencils. Fisher pens later developed a pressurized pen on their own that could write in zero gravity, and NASA did buy them (Why wouldn't they?) but NASA never funded the development, never asked for it, and were not involved with it in any way, they merely bought them as did incidentally the Russians if I'm not mistaken. It was a marketing gimmick, they have made much more money selling the pen to the public then they have to NASA.

[saigonpunkid]

@sildenafiltartrate then lead dust from the pencils got stick into electronics and russian spacecraft crashed.

[mauiboynokaoi]

@sildenafiltartrate So did the US. But graphite dust posed a substantial risk to electronics in a zero gravity environment so the space pen was invented. Shortly after, the Russians adopted a space pen as well.

[jtmathena]

I cant imagine this would be an effective implement of battle. With the long prep time(hole for base, base placement, brace placement, attachment of firing tube an finally loading and firing) and limited range. Yes effective with a hit but if you notice when the mortar fires the brace timbers fly into the air so again more prep before fire. the placement really seems like a sitting duck because I really couldnt imagine it firing but so many rounds per hour but im no expert

[UDI1995]

@jtmathena

well its atleast a good weapon as a siege weapon at citys or forts etc...

[Howlthrug]

Very informative video about this monster mortar.

[Broodkill]

@Howlthrug actually this isnt the monster mortar. the monster mortar was developed in the 1800's. lol fyi

[jasper8325]

i LOVE this gun

[MikeofWyoming]

Man, I sure would like to push that button....BALAAAAAAMMMM!!!!

[bubbab89]

only in america... i love this country :D

[ybmarmotyb]

Shooshgun :)))

[RedOrchestraPro]

*Schwehrer Gustaf

[RedOrchestraPro]

awesome. yet very inconvenient. 9500 yards in range? compare that tot he schewrer gustafs 35 kilometers (22 miles)

[drsta84]

but your comparing a field artillery GUN to a field artillery MORTAR. and between the two falls the howitzer

[zooders]

or the paris gun....

[Alotak]

Much cheeper to make tho

[MatandJezzaMusic]

@RedOrchestraPro

and compare that to the Paris Guns 120km

[stereokid]

@RedOrchestraPro But needing twin sets of railway tracks would also have been very inconvenient during the invasion of Japan.

[naltrexone23X]

@RedOrchestraPro Good coastal defense

[heisenfeis]

@RedOrchestraPro "schewrer gustafs" what is it you cant find anything with that name on google,

[heisenfeis]

@RedOrchestraPro if you meant the SCHWERER GUSTAV it shot 7 tonnes shells :D,. the barrel length is 32m which gets it muzzle velocity up to 820 m/s. And the gun itself and the platform is 80 times bigger or so to Little david.

Little david, Muzzle velocity 1250 (feet per second) = 381 m / s ! and the barrel is 22 feet ( 22 feet = 6.7056 meters) the prodjectile weight is 3650-pounds

Little david could be mounted on a tank, SCHWERER GUSTAV on a railroad platform.

[TheMohawkNinja]

@heisenfeis the Schwerer Gustav was going to be mounted on a tank but the project was canceled.

[heisenfeis]

@TheMohawkNinja i know, but how big would that tank be to a T28 or another tank which could hold little David ?

[TheMohawkNinja]

@heisenfeis When you put it that way... you have a good point.

[LordofAoD]

@RedOrchestraPro It's a mortar, not long range artillery

[fyflishfy47]

@RedOrchestraPro It's not supposed to be a long firing missile. It's just a mortar..

[KiwiLovin7]

@RedOrchestraPro

It was only meant to test out bombs

[Dreadnought53]

@RedOrchestraPro This Thing here was a Mortar , the Dora was a gun ...

[Noneofyourbusiness0]

@RedOrchestraPro Well you have to think of it this way, the schewrer gustaf is a railway gun and is used like an artillery gun. Little David is a mortar. Mortars usually fire the shell up and over and can only be fired that way. Artillery can be fired up and over and straight to the target. No offense, but you need to see the difference.

[disturbedone5009]

@RedOrchestraPro

This was a mortar, not a howitzer.

[orbcorp]

gotta love WWII engineering

[ozzyguy67]

gahy