The biggest landbased guns in the world

Inspired by scaramouche I begun searching for coastal defence guns in Norway, and I have to say I was surprised by how many I found in the country which I have lived in for more than three decades now.

This, the so-called "Adolf-Gun", is found in Harstad, and is apparently the biggest landbased gun in the world :



The next picture shows the second biggest landbased gun in the world, at Vara Battery in Kristiansand. It has a calibre of 38cm.

 

Pretty Big!

Whats the calibre of the Adolf?

 

here we go again with the dreded white square and red X :roll:

 

16"/52.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_16-52_skc34.htm

me262, I can see just fine those pics.

 

It must be something with your computer, really, because that makes three of us who can see these pictures perfectly (Desertwolf, Notmi and me).

Notmi, thanks for the info. 52 Centimeters is pretty big!

 

Well, actually its 40.6 cm. That 52 is lenght of a barrel.

 

Yeah, Me262, I see the pics fine, there must be something rong with ur pc

Thanks Notmi!

By the way, do you guys know if those guns are still servicable? Are they any use in a modern war?

 

:angry: :bang: damn, i hate this#$%^&* machine

 

A single precision strike will wipe it out. Absolutely useless.

Notmi, thanks for the correction. I was too lazy to do a calculation so i just assumed that you had made it already. Serves to show that I can't estimate sizes in Imperial measurement!

 

nobudy can not accuratly if they never use it in everyday life

 

this is the info i got:
40.6 cm SK C/34 in SG C/39
the length of the gun : 20.3 mteters, 799.21 inches or 66.6 ft.
originaly intended for the H- class battleship

 

Great photos Skua!!! 40,6cm railway guns and howitzers were standard (and quite numerous) in te US Coast Artillery since the begining of the 20th Century Now -the biggest gun that l'm aware of was "Dora" actually an 81,6 cm (32.13 inch!!) L.36 with a length of 32.,48 meters (97,4 feet!) .It weighed 1.350 metric tons tons (that's about the size of a typical WW2 destroyer) The darn thing required a special double track..

Fired an AP shell that weighed 7100 kg(15,620 lb)-at a maximum range of 38.000 meters , and a smaller shell (4600 kg-or10.120 lb) at 47.000 meters

P.S. Skua..aren't there some prre WW1 Krupp 280 mm coastal guns still presreved in Norway, onf of these sunk the German heavy cruiser "Blücher" in 1940 l believe? :roll:

 

according to my book:
80 cm Sprgr:fuzed Hbgr Z 40 K 4800 kgs
this was a ballistic-capped shell of conventiona design with an explosive content of 300 kgs
80cm Gr Be: fuzed Bd Z C/38 7100 kgs
this was similar to the high explosive but was base fuzed, the shell having a concealed haredened point beneath the ballistic cap, with an aprox 200 kgs of explosives

but do not mention any ap shell


the maximun range with:
concrete piercing shell was 38,000 mtrs/41557 yd/23.61 miles
high explosive shell 47,000 mts/51400 yds/29.2 miles

check this:
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopi ... ght=#22866

 

Source señor? my data (and photo) comes from "Riesengeschütze und Scwhere Brummer" Ein und Jetz" (J.F. Lehman Verlag, München, 1982) pag.100-101. According to Comparato (op.cit) pag. 334 The US developed a giant mortar to deploy against the Siegfried Line; the "Little David" (914 mm-36 inches) which fired a 3650 lb. projectile to a distance of 9000 yards-the sole prototype is at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds-l thought it was too ugly to waste a photograph

Check this US 16 inch (40,6cm) L.50-also from "Riesengescuütze und.."


P.S. got a few more cannon pics to post-after that are you ready for some Spanish Civil War, pre-war Netherlads AF and Luftwaffe aircraft types? :roll:

 

Bring 'em on scaramouche!

BTW I thought the Dora's calibre was simply 80cm?

 

The main ( south ) battery at Oscarsborg have three 28cm L/40 Krupp guns dating from 1905. They were instrumental in the sinking of Blücher, but I believe it was torpedoes which actually sunk her.

 

Yes, l seem to remember that; (any chance of a photo of those 280 mm?) I also seem to recall that when the Blücher was sunk "ONkel Addy" had a fit and gave the Krupps some grief..and theysimply answred that those gns were older models sold before h WW1... :smok:

 

Ok-the Spanish Ciivl war guns first (as well as some other odds and ends-and the aircraft later on)
I think they referred to it generically as an 80 cm...

"Forgive my enemies? l have none! l had them all shot!"
General Narvaez on his deathbed, to his confessor

 

Sure. It´s from a German website which is probably the most informative about Oscarsborg I´ve found so far, with some great photos as well.

http://www.atlantikwall-research-norway ... sborg.html

 

Grat shot! many thanks!..It is interesting to see the turret mounts used on thee Norwegian guns-as a mattr of interest,the mod. 1895 280mm Krupp sold to Chile were barbette-mounted, and the ones sold to Brazil later on were a twin-mounting on a Krupp armored turret :smok: