Artillery Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons. These engines comprise specialised devices which use some form of stored energy to operate, whether mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic. Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.
German rail gun, only two ever produced, ROF is 1 round every 30 to 45 minutes or typically 14 rounds a day, caliber 800mm, crew 250 to assemble the gun in 3 days (54 hours), 2,500 to lay track and dig embankments. 2 Flak battalions to protect the gun from air attack, cost 7 million reichsmarks, waste of resources and manpower ? Oh yes :D
Ze Germans compensating for something...
smaller guns perhaps ?
O.o
this caliber is too much even for battleship, but mounting it on some big cargo-ship seems to be better idea than making it moving on tracks
well it did cause panic every 30 minutes :D so thats a plus
Now try to rotate that thing into the right position :P.