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- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71FIRE THE RAIL GUN!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62vid showing the dora gun in action:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1209533366135570549 - jfair, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54Hitler wanted "a gun able to pierce a meter of stell, seven meters of concrete, or thirty meters of dense earth".
Stell is tough stuuf. - MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28You have to admire the incredible engineering and manufacturing required in order to constuct that massive beast.
- revmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28*BOOM*
HEADSHOT!
damn. - xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23There was a great map featuring this gun in RTCW:ET.
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Does that thing have a safety?
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22MY TANK IS FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
- Pr0v0st, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Looks like someone's compensating for something...
- starguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Bigger gun: Atomic Annie
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2707742178060886128&q=atomic+howitzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They need bigger bullets!
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Little bit late for that to happen.
- grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12BOOM HEADSHOT!
no matter where you hit them.... - thefoxtrot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12spel czech?
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Yes...it's the RailGun map. I spend too much time trying to fire the rail gun.
- oneboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The designers had mobility in mind when making Dora -- that's why she's a railwaygun. Germany had oodles of miles of railroads. Dora would be hidden away in a railway-accessible tunnel until she was called into action. Scary things hide in dark places.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Check out the guy's ICQ number: 2389649
Was this page build in 1998? =) - Rasputin243, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Look at the 7th picture down.. You can see the massive rifling in the barrel (or should i say tunnel?)...
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Atomic Annie was only 288mm... not even close to 1000mm.
Bigger, no. Badder, yes. - oddball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7bigger bang, but smaller gun......
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Guns of Navarone
- KillerBears, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I remember blowing this thing up in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Holy crap that thing is intense.
- nadadingsda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Saddam Hussein's Project Babylon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon would have been far bigger than this gun, the barrel would have been 500 feet long. I was supposed to shoot projectiles into orbit.. or maybe to Israel too. "Unfortunately" it was never completed..
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Shameless self promotion
- RekCognize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Can you imagine being around that thing when it fired? Bastard would shatter a spleen. Hope they had a separate team building better ear plugs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Disarm zee Dynomite!"
"I'm oun engineer" - dcoolidge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They like to shoot?
- mokkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Gregd
Nice ET reference. Ah, the memories of being spawn camped on that level with mortars and airstrikes. - firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Jesus ***** Christ. Imagine that brain power used for good instead of evil.
- Managore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@finalmillennium
The Paris gun was a completely different weapon. It had an effective range of 130km, much more than this gun, although it's barrel length was slightly shorter, at 28m. I think it was much more impressive, actually. There were a lot of different "railway" guns used during WW2, shouldn't assume they're all the same :] - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3someone stole the plans from shinra!
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, they had to build railway spur to get Schwerer Gustav near enough to Sevastopol.
Dora was never useful. - genconkeeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The German Army had a hardon for big guns even after aerial bombing proved it was more effective and cheaper. For the cost of Dora you could of had a dozen He-111's and drop twenty times the ordnance in the time the gun could fire one shell. Dora is one of the many reasons Germany lost the war.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4well
"In the history of artillery, only the American 36-inch Little David had a larger caliber." - rindin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11That's a huge bitch!
- oneboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Regarding the relationship between the Krupp and the Nazis... Essentially, the Krupp family owned/ran much of Germany so the Nazis had to cuddle with them. The Krupp worked with Nazis as business partners much like Mr. Schindler in the film "Schindler's List".
- pauleku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well you know what they say about men with huge guns....
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And now they make coffee machines!
(or is that Krup's ?) - ZeroG52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, mine's 351713, circa 1997.....
- oddball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Created - 31/07/2000
Last Update - 31/07/2000 - kostodor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Well Gerald Bull really did some big guns, actually the biggest non-combat guns:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_gun - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seeing that drawing makes me wanna play Wolfenstein:ET.
- J6stik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone who plays Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory will recognize this from the "Rail Gun" level. :P
- jeffremer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Manufacturing...engineering...pthhhbt! Hitler just waited for them to respawn.
- nova9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1a meter of stell must be cool.
- zapa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Amazing how many crazy weapons germans managed to make before collapse.
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Of more interest: The operator ia not really shielded from the resulting explosion. Both the gun and the operator are "expendable". Go go US military?!?
- nubnub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah Enemy Territory is where I recognized it from.
- oneboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A great (albeit large) book written about the Krupp family: "The Arms of Krupp: 1587-1968", by the late and legendary William Manchester. (http://www.amazon.com/Arms-Krupp-1587-1968-William-Manchester/dp/0316544906)
Though this is ultimately a history book, it reads like a novel. It details the building of the Krupp dynasty, its rise from the fires of the Reformation and its incredible acquisition of massive wealth up through the twentieth century.
An example of the Krupp family’s continual impact on history is in the era of Napoleon. Friedrich Alfried Krupp attempted to develop cast steel to win a prize set up by Bonaparte. Though Friedrich did not succeed, his son’s talents emerged. Alfred, using his father’s cast steel factory as a springboard, developed methods of producing large quantities of cast steel. This inevitably led to muskets, steel cannons, and the infamous Big Bertha cannon. The Krupp weapons were used in numerous European wars, including the Franco-Prussian war and on both sides of the wars against the Napoleons, all of which indirectly affected (or effected, depending on one’s view) the fate of Europe.
[/lecture] Whew, looks like I *did* learn a lot from that book report I did years ago! haha
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