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[Subdeacon Joe]

The Biggest naval cannons of WW2 was the 18.1-inch (46 cm) naval guns equipped on the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi. Dora railway gun - HOLD MY BEER!

A massive 31 inch/800 mm shell from the German 'Dora' railway gun next to a Jeep.... shells weighing 7 tons and had a range of 29 miles/47 km!
https://militaryhistoria.com/schwerer-gustav/

 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Let's see the revolver....  

[Chantry]

What a waste of resources and manpower

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Can you get a reloading dies for those?

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

41 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Can you get a reloading dies for those?

 

Here the reloader.

 

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

So wadya think?

3.2 grains TiteGroup or 3.5 grains Unique?

Gives a whole new meaning to “poof-tink” 

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[Subdeacon Joe]

31 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

So wadya think?

3.2 grains TiteGroup or 3.5 grains Unique?

Gives a whole new meaning to “poof-tink” 

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

 

10 of FFFFg 

[Eyesa Horg]

The revolver was posted a month or so ago!

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 hours ago, Chantry said:

What a waste of resources and manpower

 

Which for the Allies was a good thing.  

 

Mass	1,350 tonnes (1,490 short tons; 1,330 long tons)
Length	47.3 metres (155 ft 2 in)
Barrel length	32.5 metres (106 ft 8 in) L/40.6
Width	7.1 metres (23 ft 4 in)
Height	11.6 metres (38 ft 1 in)
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.
Shell	Armored-Piercing Shell (AP) High-Explosive Shell (HE)
Caliber	800 millimetres (31 in)
Elevation	Max of 48°
Rate of fire	1 round every 30–45 minutes or typically 14 rounds a day
Muzzle velocity	820 m/s (2,700 ft/s) (HE) 720 m/s (2,400 ft/s) (AP)
Effective firing range	c. 39,000 metres (43,000 yd)
Maximum firing range	47,000 metres (51,000 yd) (HE) 38,000 metres (42,000 yd) (AP)

[Eyesa Horg]

Still too small

[Pat Riot]

Man, I would have loved to see this thing fired. 
 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]