Dora 800mm artillery gun Overview

[nikoro1234]

Dear Santa...

[RandomTalkingKid]

i finally found the toaster of chuck norris

[noonsight2010]

Probably rather expensive, impractical and vulnerable to airstrike. It was a blessing that the Germans followed "blind alley" perfectionism when the clock was against them, rather than allied pragmatism, with ease of production and numbers more than compensating for design imperfections.

A terrific clip, shame it's not longer.

[legomilitary2011]

awesome

[Yuicy]

Dora the Exploder

[silentsniperrr]

I thought the Karl Siege Howitzer was one of the biggest. It fired a think a one or two ton shell and had a 12 ft. concrete piercing round.

[stephen00z]

Hello Wolfenstein..

[evbot456]

holy shit! how much did one of the rounds weigh?

[nagasako7]

Why is named after a Mexican girl?

[Jackpot807]

...And this, is my weapon.

[VersusARCH]

Extremely dumb concept, and also technologically demanding, but at least the German engineering solved the demanding part. I think I'd rather have 3 submarines or a tank battalion than this contraption. Nice vid, though :)

[MurderDeathKill01]

@VersusARCH Shows you just how advanced german engineering is/was. To the point where they could build and use these types of monstrosities. The fact that they could make something like this, AND make it work properly, speaks volumes.

[ThePlaneGuy22]

This gun shoots a projectile the size of a T34 tank.

[background61]

it is hard to do a chuck norris joke with this monster Oo

[RaptorDiablo]

lol this thing must of been like the nuke back in the days

[GenerationKill1010]

@RaptorDiablo lol no the atom bomb and hydrogen bomb were

[RaptorDiablo]

@GenerationKill1010 back BACK in the days, like.. before those :p

[GenerationKill1010]

@RaptorDiablo ooo lol

[DriftinWolf]

I'm guessing they would've at least brought ack-acks along to protect from enemy aircraft?

[evildeathmonkey1]

@DriftinWolf What are ack-acks?

[DriftinWolf]

@evildeathmonkey1 like anti-air guns

[tupsumato]

@XLWAustralia, bigger yes, better no. Guns like this were a terrible waste of resources.

[geekymgee]

@tupsumato it's the only thing that can bust a nuclear bunker

[tupsumato]

@geekymgee, not really. The same thing could've been accomplished by a single bomber and it would've not required hundreds of soldiers to operate it.

[geekymgee]

@tupsumato You also have to remember it would require many bunker busters

[TheGotikEngel]

@XLWAustralia that's what SHE said

[sniperpistol50]

@AdamSavage88 thats where we blew it to peices and scraped it to prevent the red army from haveing it. we were scared of them owning such a super weapon

[sniperpistol50]

@AdamSavage88 it was used in the begning of june (June, 5th) at the city of Sevastopol. then again at fort moltov on june 6th, then on june seventh used as a firing support of an infantry attack on Sudwestspitze, once more at fort sibera on june 11th and the final time on june 17th at Maxim Gorki on the coast line adding up to an amount of 38 shells. but when this thing fired everything in the area heard it and was shooken so badly men couldnt hear sometime after the first 2 shots

[sniperpistol50]

that would just ruin your day... from 35 KILOMETERS AWAY!

[letssled]

Does anyone know what happened to Dora? Was it scrapped or destroyed?

[sniperpistol50]

@letssled we blew the shit out of it because we were scared of the red army having it

[letssled]

@sniperpistol50 thanks for the reply, it is to bad we don't have a piece of history like that in a museum.

[sniperpistol50]

@letssled thats like trying to keep 2 B-52 stratofortesses in a building. Dora was a.... large girl. with a very loud mouth and a really bad punch

[TheCockroach126]

dear santa i know im early but this will take long to build and i only want it to cause terror to the near by city muahahahaha

[nnasser007]

hitler the king

[TheMCAWA]

THATS WHAT HAPPENDS When the Germans Get Bored at Home

800mm DORA OMG

[c4rn493br1n93r]

In soviet Russia this comes in every happy meal...

[TheDutchGame]

Imagine getting robbed by that!

[combatarmsfan100]

is that what i think it is?.... the p 1500 monster!?

[Stifsim6]

Everyone wants to argue: "this gun is bigger than that gun" etc...so riddle me this: Who's ready to stand down-range from any of them? Not me, I have a good understanding of the laws of physics...and those laws you do not break.

[RocketKnightPhantom]

O.O

[HellzNord]

I really wish there was more footage and pictures of this thing on the internet, seems info and footage/pics are rare lol

[tratersniper]

tell me if im wrong but isn't the shell for this gun about the same size as a vw buss

[VaDLaMa]

If 1 of that shell hit Bear Grylls, he simply survive it.

[NiNNNtech]

внатуре дура

[ss90ss444]

Why was this gun never used against Leningrad?

[Imppilz]

@ss90ss444

Im not sure but i would imagine that the autumn/winter had something to do with it.

[ciaboy19]

I wonder what would happen if it shot out nukes???

[hacksign5]

Eh, it'll only leave a flesh wound.

[Groeko]

The germans captured this from E.D.N III :D

[stevemanoppo]

wish Germany made the 10 others...

[ISinisterI]

im guessing this Dora wasnt much of an explorer

[BaconTV123]

i wonder y they stoped making big ass guns like this

[1STACCS]

@BaconTV123 Because technology changed. A small nuclear device like the Hiroshima Bomb was exponentially much more powerful. Also, the Krauts lost the war.

[BaconTV123]

@1STACCS but still it make a good AA gun like super sized 88flak or coastal defence

[ElPINGAS9000]

800MM?!!??!?!?!?!?!?! WHAT THE HELL WHAT THEY NEED THIS FUCKER FOR? DESTROYING AN INCOMING ASTROID??!?!?!?!?!?!

[whatthehell81]

Is the imagination, of what would happen if the barrel would be filled with people and fired, a little bit sick?

[auroraionaa]

WTF

[trebuchet21]

say hello to my little friend...

that's quite a large gun

[killallianceftw]

wtf were they using this for...shooting ships out of orbit?

if not then this is a bit overkill

[jahseedbeatz504]

The damage from fire'n this big peace of shit is probably just as bad as the receiving end..lol.

[33Diebold]

HOLY CRAPIM HAPPEH THATS THING IS GONE!!!! ._.

[sguberdude]

I...WANT...ONE

[stivencali]

holy shittt that thing is the shit

[FunnnnyDrake]

Chuck Norris hired them to build him a handgun

[Justin22Kurtis]

now all it needs are some flames on the side, and some spinners, oh, and tons of chrome!

[airrifleguy]

its a fucking cannon on steroids

[blacklegionairsoft1]

I wonder who the guy was that looked at an 88 and said, "You know, this just isn't big enough."

[sweetsongman1]

i think that gun could shoot over the english channel from the northern coast of france

if it did they could line these up and pummel small bits of britain

[binaway]

@sweetsongman1 Some of the English south coast town were shelled by 15inch naval guns installed on the French coast. The old town center of Southampton was totally destroyed.

[lemonzawodowiec]

I live near the place, where Dora was tested

[aved619]

this artillery gun is a fucking freaking piece weapon that could make you pee in your pants.

[ForestDweller80]

Maybe the Fuhrer was compensating for something?

[calvinlam912]

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[TheKevinV08]

If that thing had nuclear shells...

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[aved619]

@TheKevinV08 that could be devastating as hell fuck.

[FerrilEwok]

amazing this thing was used in war.. the only cannon to surpass it in caliber was the little david but the little david was never used

[Celeon999A]

@FerrilEwok

And Little David was a mortar, not a artillery cannon. ;-)

With its 8 kilometers of range, and 12 hours of preparations to be made prior to firing, the opportunities for using little David would had been very limited anyway.

Dora on the other hand needed even more time for firing preparations (Around 56 hours) but with its range of 47 kilometers this could be done in comfortable and comparatively safe distance to the enemy.

[FerrilEwok]

@Celeon999A Correct as Why i stated In caliber lol..

[ForestDweller80]

@Celeon999A True, but I wonder, what if in those 56 hours, a Free French spy found out the location of Dora, and air support or other artillery itself was called upon it?

[Celeon999A]

@ForestDweller80

It was never deployed to France ;-)

But i know what you want to say. The gun recieved adequate guarding and air defence.

[23HAMSANDWICH]

@ForestDweller80 these artillery guns were built to siege when the luftwaffe had air superiorty, but the germans fought with whatever they had at the time. which was a huge sitting duck.

[claypoo]

@ForestDweller80 But my response to that good sir is, the French run when they see a handgun pointed at them from 1200 miles away. I am not so sure a French Spy would be able to get within adequate distance of this without going into irreversible shock.

[cochbloch]

@ForestDweller80 nah, they would have been too busy surrendering

[SebasRabet]

@ForestDweller80 56 hrs isn't it just put a shell in it and press fire or pull some string :')

[assasine08]

@SebasRabet

ehhhhhh......no.........if you do so youl never hit your enemies.

you have to calculate in what angle the canon has to be to hit your target and the wind and way more stuff like preperations so its ready to fire......

[chrthiel]

@Celeon999A

56 hours? Never gonna happen. They had to lay down whole sections of specially reinforced rails in order to fire it. That kind of things takes weeks.

[Celeon999A]

@chrthiel

Yes the preparations on the rail track may have taken much longer but Dora itself needed "only" 56 hours of preparations after arrival at that already built firing site near Sevastopol.

A second firing site was built inTaysly south of Leningrad to shell the city from there but was never used.

[jcodym13]

@Celeon999A didnt they never figure out how to fire it?

[thaistick10]

@Celeon999A

After the rail track, then 56 hours or preparation, it probably then took another 5 hours for the round to circle the globe 4 times before hitting the target :)

[eclipsegs91]

@Celeon999A 56 hours to fire...what if in those 56 hours the object had moved lol. BUT on a more seriouse note, What was it actually used to fire at?

[rampking1]

@Celeon999A and......It BEAT the Soviets at Sevastopol, the Russians were shocked. From your displayed knowledge displayed here, I figured you knew this already....but others may want to research this.

Sevastapol was a true fortress, and the Soviets really thought that they could stop the Wehrmacht there.

Any expanation why the Wehrmacht never deployed it against Leningrad?

Thanks

[DevSolar]

@rampking1 @ss90ss444: After the siege of Sevastopol, the gun was intended to be used as part of "Operation Nordlicht" (the bombardment and eventual capture of Leningrad). The whole operation was scrapped because the Sinyavino Offensive happened a few weeks before "Nordlicht". Since the unit was so dog-slow to move, it didn't make sense to employ it when your flank was threatened.

[rampking1]

@DevSolar Hey, thanks for the information ! I was just thinking that the Siege of Leningrad was so long in duration that artillery like this would have broken the Soviets backs.

I see I have some research work to do...

cheers

[Robert111]

@FerrilEwok Yup, Little David was nothing - a cheap mortar.

[smash451]

dora not gustav

[TheLilsampson]

IF that fired wouldnt that roll all the way back down the train track.

[Gyrogyro]

@TheLilsampson that would be hilarious xD

[7419635841635]

how would they move it?

[Celeon999A]

@7419635841635

With a train. Its a rail artillery

[7419635841635]

@Celeon999A cool :D u was the one filming?

[Pnoerre]

Did this monster have an USB Port??!

Maybe this is the new iTraingun by Apple ? ;)

[whyallaguru]

Well I like it

Good video, google images sucked when I was looking at this thing

[bahhv2]

overkill much?

[Clausewitzz]

Lolz the thing actually needed 2 railwaylines.

So whenever they got somewhere where there was only 1 railtrack the 5000 crew man had to build a 2nd track next to it to get it were it was needed:P

[AmericanGIProduction]

One word WHY?

[TheBrotherOfSisters]

@AmericanGIProduction Why not

[jigglypiggly]

Ultimately a waste of time and resources, only fired a handful of shots at Sevastapol.

Required a major general as a gun crew captain, crew of 5,000 for maintenance, and operation.

[PilotBoris]

And I thought the V3 was an amazing feat of engineering, 3 500 mm guns in just one bunker pointing at england, but this proves otherwise THIS is on the top of my list of gemany's overengineered over the top military equipment.

[101andrewj]

the japs had 2 battleships.... with 14 460mm cannons... the largest ever put on a floating ship.... yet they got destroyed by american warplanes and smaller warships.... bigger isnt always better

[PilotBoris]

of course apart from the times it is :D

but seriously now I have to agree the second world war was the end for bigger is always better.

[mainminevin]

you mean the yamato and the mushashi :)

[101andrewj]

yep... the 2 largest battleships ever built by humans... the problem is... they had no radar, or sonar.... so they may have been heavy hitters... but the smaller american warships wer able to fight more effectively with there smaller guns and better targeting systems.... aka bigger isnt always better

[mainminevin]

the 4 iowa's :)

[elpapaya94]

battle angel alita!!

[Scoutrussp7]

Chuck Norris using this toy as a side arm

[Celeon999A]

LOL

Yeah, thats why its no good idea to piss Chuck off. :-D

[1993heavenshallburn]

close combat...? xD

[xXCREEKSTARXx]

hahahaha :D

[worldofdoom995]

@Scoutrussp7 no he played with this in his bathtub

[roaklin]

wow your ignorance of ww2 is amazing c00mander116, then where did all the video of world war ii come from bud, or did they just really really detailed drawing cartoons?

[c00mander116]

How was this video taped!? no cameras!

[Celeon999A]

@c00mander116

Ehhmmm ? What ?

[Celeon999A]

@c00mander116

So you're trying to tell me that you've never seen camera footage of ww2 or ww1 before ?

Not in tv or the internet or somewhere ? :-D

Film cameras exist since over 100 years you know

[ad0826]

does it still exist?

[Celeon999A]

@ad0826

Nope but you pieces and shells are on display in a few museums.

The biggest collection of parts from Dora is on display at the german military museum in Dresden.

I believe that some of the 800m shells are on display in a war museum in London.

[GodlessMartyr666]

why not go for the additional 200mm 1 metre gun

hahah

[Damiancyk1234]

po co im to???? wydali na to tylko kase. do czego z tego strzelac????

[lagendarock92]

this railroad gun is the most devastating ever built in ww2 history...

it 800mm dude...

[TheChicagoComedian]

Three words to sum this all up:

Sweet Buttery Jesus.

[rotorman13b]

Looks like you can live in one of those!

[SmAEsch0R]

@rotorman13b lool

[thehungrynerd117]

Holy sweet muther of f*** Thats a big ass artillery peice

[tikipowa]

@thehungrynerd117 "big ass" on this is an understatement here, that's the biggest fucking thing Ive ever seen

(and can you imagine the crater hole it would leave O.O, talk about over kill). This thing is so big that chuck norris would shit his pants (and that's pretty god dam big)

[Buemmo]

It job was to hit england from france and still be mobile... well it hit england but never london so: FAIL

[Celeon999A]

@Buemmo

No, Dora was not fired on Britain and never intended to. That was done by smaller caliber guns which were also used to fire on shipping in the english channel.

Mostly 210, 280 ,305, 380 and 406 mm guns.

Some closer british cities like Kent and Dover were shelled with them.

Dora and Gustav were siege guns meant for shelling heavy fortifications like the Maxim Gorki fortress at Sewastopol.

[Buemmo]

I thaught they also were fired at britain.. well you never stop learning ^^

[Grendelrex]

They were specifically made to shell the Maginot Line but then the Germans realized they could just go around it.....

[bazengao]

lol i wanted to see a U.S. war ship against this ''acient'' tech. it would be like

wtf just hit us?? rofl

[UFaggyPieceOfShit]

...house :p

[hjkeryb]

Yes they did build it and yes they did fire it. The gun was used at the seige of Sevastapol on the Crimean pennensula. They fired it about 5 times at the city. Then brought it up again a few weeks later to fire on the Maxin Gorky 1 fortress eight more times. After that, the gun was dismantled to keep from falling into Russian hands. It was too big, too heavy, only mobile in two directions a rail line could go and took 1400 men to service it during its operation. big waste of resourses.

[VictorLepanto]

Useless things. But Hitler had a mania for big guns. What perhaps might have been the subliminal psychological underpinning of such a preoccupation?

[askjiir]

Big dicks?

[VictorLepanto]

Are you familiar w/ the story that Hitler made his living in Vienna b/f WWI as male prostitute? He is reputed to have lived at a hotel that was known for being the place to find homosexual prostitutes. This might have been his primary but hidden motive for killing off Ernst Rohm & the other SA men.

[Spem27]

i got a bigger 1 in my backyard

[Convict147]

Wonder what the explosion would be of it's shell :DDD

[pigtailsboy]

I gas main explosion

[bestamerica]

wow very big gun,,,

i wish america can make it a biggest gun in the world

[pigtailsboy]

there is no point to it

[pav400]

holy shit!

[thehiddenhand20]

compared to the cannons on the U.S.S. Wisconsin's (16 in) almost doubles it at 800mm or about a 31.50 in

[jom2ar]

was these true?? did they have evidence that they build it?/ how come it was never seen on TV..??

[damaged01]

German WWII railgun > Every other gun ever made.

[BOYCOT4YT]

sheer propaganda ofcourse.

[DeltaBeat]

german machines are epic!

look at "Die Ratte" or this epic weapon :D

[xGothimox]

Chuck Norris considers this an SUV.

[AfflictionFTW]

Wow...0.o

Lol...it could fire small panzer 1 and 2 at the enemy.

Nice piece of machinery.

[TheNachtjager]

that's fuckin huge man, dats fuckin huge!

thats what she said

[christlubas]

This is SPARTA GERMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Celeon999A]

LOL

[pavre69]

was

[JSLegoMaster]

This must be where it was finished builded.

[marcovaaa]

Question: Was the P.1000 Ratte real or just faked out by Wikipedia? I'm suspicious of it XD

[Celeon999A]

Real, but only as concept drawings and some numbers on paper.

Albert Speer dismissed the plans as nonsense right after seeing them.

[frontline88888888]

one of germanys many ambitious but failed plans

[slavuBOG]

why failed ?? this gun already existed and was used in battle ( sewastopol )

[marcolive85]

awesome!!

[JurishzteR]

the germans were very clever to make something like that they really are... however didnt anyone of them thought that they should have made a strong powerful shells rather than big gun?

[buddyguy1300]

The true BFG.

[rifal004]

thats B-I-G BIG

[Applelaptop124]

hard to imagine loading that thing