Junker-Sized Gun? Cool Story

[N-Sunderland]

Howitzer? Bleh. Tiny. Let's take a look at a decently-sized gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

[Sgt. Spoon]

yeah, next to the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte those things are the coolest things... ever... of all time

[Keon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1500_Monster

If I remember right, this guy woulda mounted one of the Schwerers.

Also, it's like 40 meters long and 10 meters tall.

[Sgt. Spoon]

The difference would, of course, be that those railway guns were actually built

[Skrimskraw]

overexpensive.

[Keon]

It took something like a month to deploy and in most engagements it only got to fire 6 shots or so.

[N-Sunderland]

But it could punch through seven metres of concrete! Worth it.

[Keon]

Yeah, that's deep, but how accurate was it?

[Shinkurex]

With that size, how accurate would you have to be?

[Keon]

Within 30 meters, if I remember right. That was the blast range. Or maybe 10 meters. And remember, this is 30 kilometers away.

[Skrimskraw]

sounds like they should have used the money for something else lol

[Sgt. Spoon]

Well... You'd need something like that if you ever were to crush something like the Maginot Line

...sadly they were replaced by the way more efficient bombers

[N-Sunderland]

Or instead of crushing the Maginot... "Oh look! We can just go around it!"

[Sgt. Spoon]

Aye, the French did trust the German's fear of woods a bit too much

[David Dire]

oh yeah that was a pretty cool artillery piece.