what is the biggest gun in world war 2?

Question

i'm doing a project for school and need to research this topic. google didn't come up with anything good, but i didn't check every link. please help.

Answer 1

dora a krupp made german gun
here is the only link i found,but it is a start for you



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_%28artillery%29

Answer 2

that depends on what kind of gun you are talking about.

if you are talking about handguns or machine guns, i'm not sure.

but the krupp 88mm cannon was instrumental in germany's war effort and the positive tests that krupp had on their firing range at tegel in germany were so glowing that hitler moved up possible start dates for the war.

there was a ring of 88's surrounding likely targets in germany's industrial areas - these became known as 'flak alley' because the 88's put so many shells into the air.

it didn't realy protect the ruhr, or the plants that produced the 88's, which were devastated over and over again by allied air raids.

this led german industrialists to go into conquered territories and basically steal industrial machinery and in some cases entire factories.

that's not all they stole - they also set up factories in the death camps with the logic being that they could work people to death very efficiently - which was true in the most ghastly sense of the word.

still the 88 was one of the most feared guns of the war and was instrumental in the early successes and took down a lot of allied aircraft.

remember that the big bertha and the paris cannon were both WWI weapons.

Answer 3

The largest guns on a naval vessel were the 18.1" guns on the battle ship Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The largest artillery gun was one the Germans moved by rail car. Here's a small fact. The 16.1" Guns on the U.S. battle ships could launch a shell (Bullet) the weight of a Volkswagen beetle 24 miles accurately. THe below website can give you more infomation on Battleships and other military weaponry of world war 2.

Answer 4

The German "Dora" Railway Gun. It was so wide that it required two tracks laid parallel to one another. They had to be assembled on site so they had limited usage and took days to assemble.

Like all the big guns they had a problem in that they could only fire a certain number of shells. With high friction the barrel had to be replaced frequently or larger calibre ammunition manufactured

Answer 5

German Rail guns were the biggest.. 31.5 cm rounds, and transported and fired by railroad cars carrying the huge guns. The Largest known was "Dora" see the link below for more info..

http://www.railwaygun.co.uk/

Answer 6

Here is a link to the largest Artillery gun of the war, it is the German one which moved on railroad lines... 800mm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_cm_Gustav

Answer 7

The Germans had a huge artillery canon called Bertha or something , they had to ship by rail

Answer 8

Probably the German rail guns

Answer 9

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