The Biggest Guns ever built ...

[dogtag]

Big is good. Bigger is better, but biggest is best. But only if it works.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/03/ranked-the-five-biggest-military-big-guns-on-planet-earth/

[bruce]

The Germans did create some really big guns! Also got to take the Paris gun into the estimate. Also the little poppers developed by Bull. Sincerely. bruce.

[M1Tommy]

Interesting article. I'd heard or read about some but not others. That Tsar cannon, spewing 1,800 pounds of shot, would have been quite a spectacle!
Thanks for the link.
Tommy

[Vern Humphrey]

Interesting article. I'd heard or read about some but not others. That Tsar cannon, spewing 1,800 pounds of shot, would have been quite a spectacle!
Thanks for the link.
Tommy

Probably overkill -- shot size determines range as much as anything. The smaller the shot, the lower the momentum-to-drag ratio, so while you'd get a very dense pattern, you wouldn't get all that much range.

[M1Tommy]

I agree. I just said "spectacle". <grin>

Tommy

[dogtag]

No need to fire it. Crowd need only see it and they'd turn around and go the other way.

[Vern Humphrey]

No need to fire it. Crowd need only see it and they'd turn around and go the other way.

Too bad they didn't show it to the Bolsheviks.

[Bill E]

Not sure but I think the Germans used it in the Crimia

[Vern Humphrey]

Not sure but I think the Germans used it in the Crimia

Not the same gun -- they one the Germans used was made about 300 years later.