The absolutely massive Earth-shattering German railway gun - Schwerer Gustav
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In today's video, we take a look at the absolute size of the Schwerer Gustav, Germany's most powerful railway gun
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Du Vollidiot! Die deutsche Wissenschaft ist die beste der Welt!
ドイツの化学は世界一!! Loving the back to back JoJo references.
Don't give in to wheraboos
Fakten meine Freunde, der Engländer spricht Fakten.
OK you know what I'm not gonna lie I kind of wished you did a video on the Gustavo rail cannon and my wish has come true I'm gonna be honest I love German railway history
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When the quiet train enthusiast pulls up with one of these
German engineering is not only about industrys you know!
@@sharanventure does it matter it’s still impressive
The guy must really hate a artist collage a lot
"Don't come to the station tomorrow..."
@@l0rdapophis aaaaaahhhhhhhh
I will never be able to get over the fact that Germany built the biggest mobile artillery gun in history.. And then *_built a second one._*
It was so nice they built it twice
These units
And almost built a even bigger one.
In absolute awe of the size of this lad *ABSOLUTE UNIT*
They strike me a bit as similar to Tsar Bomba: yes, they were very effective, and did exactly what was expected from them, but in the end they were impractical to use. And they would have been a very inviting target to a couple of determined ground attack planes.
I dare you to neutralise a Tsar Bomba with as many and much explosives you wish, from 5000ft
@@_Beamish Well, there was a heavily modified Tu-95.
@@SeverityOne And what are you gonna do with them? Drop bombs. On a Nuke. To prevent the nuke detonating. Am I going completely mad?
@@_Beamish You're missing the point. What I said was that both the Tsar Bomba and the Schwerer Gustav/Schwere Dora were not very practical. I've also said was that such a huge object like this railway gun would be an easy target for a ground attack aeroplane. Why you would construe this to mean that one could disable a 53 MT thermonuclear device with a ground attack aeroplane is beyond me, but go ahead, keep arguing the point.
@@SeverityOne I agree with the former, and partially on the latter insofar as the US and Soviets both possessing the power to make one 20,000 nukes go boom bigger slightly redundant in a MAD scenario
I will admit that one of the few undying model railroad dreams I have had since childhood is to hook up my HO scale Big Boy to one of these and have it go around the family Christmas tree. Sadly models of this gun seem to limited to custom jobs for eye watering amounts.
Hmm. Seems like it'd be a great use for a 3d printer...
@@fallingwater That would make it easier to justify making the gun into a Christmas themed one. Sometimes Santa needs to give out lots of coal at considerable distances. :)
@@Hybris51129 Christmas, Valentine's (how huge and heavy a big red heart can we throw 100km in the distance?), and let's not forget new year's fireworks...
Make one out of scrap metal and put some HO bogies on it.
Fun fact: this cannon was given a Yugioh card. It’s called Superdreadnaught Rail Cannon Gustav Max and it’s ability was to hit your opponents life points directly without any direct confrontation, referring to its real life purpose of hitting battles from far away. Why a children’s trading card game needed a Nazi cannon is beyond me but I used it and the other train cards all the time.
Come to think of it Dora had a card too but it wasn’t as good as Gustav so I never used it
Japan and germany were allies in WW2. And it's a very impressive gun.
"Schwerer Gustav" & "Dora" were only usable in areas of combat where there was total German air superiority. One decent Russian air raid whilst it was being assembled would've destroyed it but the Russians were very much on the back foot at Sevastopol & couldn't mount such a raid, even if they had knowledge of what & where it was being assembled.
One other thing puts into perspective how tremendously huge these were. This was the only artillery piece where the Gun Captain held the rank of Major General.
Schwerer Gustav, or at lease a weapon of striking similarity, was featured in Lost Planet 2. And it was in one of the most badass cutscenes in gaming history.
What about covering the most produced steam locomotive class in history, the Russian E class?
108 mile range is insane
Gustav may not have seen its full potential in the war, but needless to say Yu-Gi-Oh players definitely took advantage of its firepower! Also, for some reason Dora's card version makes its target immune to card effects for the turn... Your guess is as good as mine on why Konami chose that for the effect.
Superdreadnought rail cannon Gustavo max is an essential in any deck that can put it on the board. I think Dora effect is probably more like it provides covering fire against other cards. Then, superdreadnought rail cannon juggernaut liebe, well liebe isn’t the German word for love for no reason!
Now I want to build a deck around Gustav.
@@bullstrode5875 Yep, nothing says love like blasting your opponent with a 6k massive attack.
@@mattevans4377 i would reccomend it, i don't know how cheap the cards are currently but i know a lot of the train support has had quite a few reprints so you can find the cards for cheap on tcgplayer
In the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG there is a deck of trains, the 3 boss monsters being; Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Juggernaut Liebe This explains the first 2, can you shed any light on the origins of Liebe? The most I can find is that it's supposedly related to the Landkreuzer Monster
Do I see a fellow Earth Machines player?
@@shirokumaotaku nope, but you do see another player of all the dumb, random decks (currently have Bystial Lightsworn Ishizu Synchron Tear as one deck, Crystal Beasts, F.A. and Red-Eyes FTK)
@@shirokumaotaku Not currently a earth machine player, but absolutely a earth machine appreciator!
I still always think of those from their one anime appearance when I see the actual trains. Still kinda weird subject choice for a trading card game suitable for children, but hey ho
@@kaitlyn__L It was yugioh zexal, anna kaboom i believe who had the trains and gutav max
This gun forever reminds me of Railgun-mission from Enemy Territory, where we had to take down Gustav's twin sister Dora, or load the ammo and fire the gun depending if you played German or Allies.
So the Russains make an engine that can't really be used due to its size, yet the Germans make an engine probably 10 times the size that actually works. Goes to show that size only matters if function is factored in
Unless I'm mistaken, I read somewhere that these massive rail cannons were so powerful that their barrels could only be used to fire about 10 shots before needing reworking or replacing. If true, it created another tremendous logistical hurdle in their prolonged use.
As far as I know, the chamber was designed to be replaced every few shots, but not the barrel itself.
I've read that the batch of shells supplied for use were slightly different (incremental increase) sizes to take account of the wear in the barrel in use. That's German thoroughness for you....!
You might be thinking of the "Paris Gun" used against France during WWI. Not as big, but similar idea.
@@stephenphillip5656 Yes, the Paris Gun did have that issue. The other thing was, in order to withstand the acceleration, the shells only contained about 15 pounds of explosive and were more of a nuisance/terror weapon than anything. There was one shell that hit a church and caused the roof to collapse, killing about a hundred. But it couldn't hit anything much more accurate than "Paris".
That is correct, the amount of propellant used melts the rifling of the barrel. Lookup Gerald Bull and Project Babylon in the 90s, still had a barrel wear out issue.
Probably one of the most intriguing pieces of rolling stock, Just imagine seeing this in 2023. I'm surprised The US didn't do this 🤣
America also didn't build our own Kettenkrads, which is frustrating, because I'm American and I want a Kettenkrad.
These would’ve made gigantic museum pieces
Feel like either this railway gun or another large caliber gun was the origin of the gun that could shatter windows many km away. "Residents, please open your windows to prevent a loss of windows."
Meet Thomas the Tank Engine's new friend, Gustav the Rail Gun.
Here’s a good topic for a video: Cover the “Land Merrimack,” the first railway gun to be used in combat. She was first (and only) used during the Battle of Savage’s Station during the Seven Days Battles of the American Civil War on June 29th, 1862.
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY "ドイツのエンジニアリングは世界最高峰!"
I remember see that on simply history about this BIGGUN is nice to reseagain
I appreciate the choice of song in the background
The team maintaining the gun was travelling along in a dedicated train. This train included a dedicated brothel car.
My grandfather walked on anzino aney in Italy after the Germans abandoned it, and it was still impressive. He also met one of his friends on the gun from his home city of Berlin NH U.S.A. We unfortunately don't know who that friend was, but if someone knows about a similar story, perhaps there the friend my grandfather met.
Try talking about an Indonesian train name the cc50 or the dd52 one of the last mallet still working (well it was) Context: the dutch east indies ask alco and a swiss i think company some stuff for there company the statspoorwegen one of them are large loco like dd50,51,52 and cc50 they were all work except for dd50,51 until 1970-79? And dd52 were scrapped and 2 cc50 are preserverd at museum There are footage of them ALOT
Well you finally talked about armoured trains after a long time. I hope you make more vids of them
its about time! woulda guessed you would do it earlier than later, but thats as true as thomas being usefull. but no shit this video is slightly better than the others!
500 men just to operate one cannon? GEEZ, that really helps put it into perspective. 0-0
Thats a Big Ass Gun right there!
Indeed. A big ass-gun!
…and here is Gustav!
Imagine having these still around today. As used for special events. No wonder these trains were used during the war. Great archive.
Train of Thought calm British man... BIG GUN TRAIN
The Germans had a bigger gun: The V-3. This was a static device that was built inside a cliff near Calais and would have had the ability to shell London. However the RAF dropped some 10 ton Grand Slam bombs that completely wrecked it. Not only did the earthquake bombs ruin the tunnels but they actually twisted the barrels that were built through solid rock. That was the lesson that rendered the railway gun obsolete. Why construct something that takes weeks to get anywhere and then weeks to build when a Lancaster bomber can fly there and deliver a heavier payload.
such a cool video man I love it
Ah yes German wunderwaffes terrifyingly impressive but practically useless considering the amount of manpower used just to protect it (antiair duties etc) and the fact it was barely used.
It did work very well at the siege of Sevastopol, then it destroyed a number of Russian fotifications.
@@kirgan1000 Of course a giant gun will always kill whatever it’s pointing at but the resources to man it wasn’t worth it for a army that’s dwindling on resources
Anyone seen the legend of korra? I feel like I'm having deja-vu
finally, my 2 favourite things (WW2 weapons and trains) combine
“I am Heavy Weapons Flatbed.”
“It costs 50000 reichmarks to fire this weapon..for 1 second”
Imagine your husband coming home from work and telling you he and the guys named a massive, unwieldy gun that takes weeks to get ready after you
And add the fact that this machine was the inspiration behind a Yu-Gi-Oh card called Super Dreadnaught Rail Cannon Gustav Max.
These things were bloody mad!
really looks like something straight out of 40k, and totally something the imperium would build
Now go watch the insane cutscene from Lost Planet 2 where they use a Schwerer Gustav-inspired railway gun to fight sandworms from Dune.
That is powerful
Stroheim's theme at the end is great lol
It is a literal rail-gun
So basically they put a gun that was as strong as / stronger than many battleships, on land.
Could it be, Metal Gear?!
I was just wondering what the sci-fi equivalent of this in space would be. Maybe the Death Star? It’s kind of mobile but the support to move it is vulnerable. Still feels more like a stationary emplacement though.
The Wave Motion Cannon from Spacebattleship Yamato
yes *gun*
I think another one fit's nicknames was "The Gustav Canon". But anyways, that hulking canon on rails was some serious black Air Force energy!
Iraq had a similar idea with the Babylon guns, but they never went anywhere. These super guns seem to have fallen out of favour when the nuclear club became a thing. And it's a giant metal hunk on a track you can follow to find it, so not the most stealthful thing
The Iraqi idea was even sillier. It would be a stationary weapon built into a hill, lobbing shells at Israel. Would only get off a few shots before the Israelis would figure out where it is and drop a laser-guided bomb at the muzzle.
to quote a wise man FOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!! GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE WORLD'S FINEST!!!!!!!
I'll take two please.
Imagine that as a TTE character....
TTTE*
Victor Tanzig should get on that.
There were also plans to put the gun on tank tracks. It would have been called the landkreuzer p.1500 monster.
Good thing they never made a tracked version....
That would need tracks at least 4x bigger than the rocket transport crawler NASA uses and a at least 2 diesel ship engines.
@@roadwarrior114 Look up P.1500 Monster. Probably a fake design, but terrifying to think about.
Dora must have been scary. The senior engineer's wife, not the gun.....
I want one as a thomas character!
Hello, ToT. this got me thinking. could you make a video on the Breitspurbahn (German for broad-gauge railway) subject. in case you didn’t know, there were proposed routes in Germany that we’re going to be developed with a track gauge of 3,000 mm, more than double the width of the common standard gauge track! while it was only a proposal and never built, paintings exist of what monsters could’ve road those rails if it was built. Apologies for any false information. Thank you.
There is a tiny bit of film of it in use
Fun fact there were initial plans to use this gun on H-Class Battleships. If this gun were mass produced and place on H-Class. London wouldn’t even survive in a single day.
Trouble is, apart from the lack of money and resources, Germany didn't have any drydocks large enough to build such a ship. And if it tried to attack London, it would become target practice for the RAF Bomber Command. Or a T-class submarine.
@@SynchroScore Yes that is the main factor why Germany lose the war pretty much. Because of lacking resources to do other things
The Osprey Publishing magazines have many editions on German WWII rail cannons for anybody interested in digging in the subject. The S.Gustav was the biggest but not the most important of them. In Italy and France several Trainguns caused havoc on allied forces in 1944. They where smaller, more accurate and slightly more manouverable. It truly was a massive weapon, the peak of cannon tech. Sadly, it was also absolutly oudated and obsolete by the very star of the war. Air power had rendered this tech a very expensive target mannequin. The same happend with the battleship Yamato (and the Hood/Bismarck). Gigantic weapons that will have ruled the waves... in WWI, but where outdated by the Airforces in 1939. Thank You for the video. Cheers!
Man i knew about Gustav because of a Yu gi oh card, who in the World would think a card could show me about history
That's overkill
Imagine finding one of these playable in World of Tanks. Schwerer Gustav Tier XV German Premium Artillery
All that expense and effort for just 13 days of combat. And photoreconnaissance of Savastobal would show that Schwerer Gustav's effect was negligible. Also the cost of all three guns could have paid for some 250 Sturmgeschutz which would have been much more useful to the German war effort.
A shell from Gustav destroyed a Russian underwater ammunition dump which was under the sea, 30 metres (100 ft) under the sea floor. The destruction wreaked by this gun was prodigious but yes, its overall strategic usefulness was limited by the massive manpower required to transport, assemble and operate it and its vulnerability to aerial attack. Smaller railway guns (K5) were operated near railway tunnels which gave the gun and crew some protection, but owing to the immense size of _Schwerer Gustav_ & _Dora,_ this wouldn't be possible - it could only be operated in combat areas where total air superiority was guaranteed.
How do you judge the effect negligible? It destroyed a ammunition dump, and destoyed/crippled a fortress heavy artillery turrets. Do I think it was cost-effective no.
@@kirgan1000 Sorry I missed your comments. I did not judge the effects of the gun but the Germans did. And it was judge that overall, apart from the ammunition dump, it added little to what the Luftwaffe had achieved.
@@stephenphillip5656 Sorry I missed your comment. It was the Germans who decided that overall the gun added little to the siege. Aerial photography showed them that, apart from the ammunition dump, bombing was much more effective. And bombing was much more versatile as it could be moved much more easily. The problem with railway guns, and armoured trains for that matter, is that they are restricted to the rails. During the American Civil War the north mounted a raid into the south using a train. During the raid they realised their error on relying on the use of the train when it became obvious that the south had became aware of what they were doing and would set up an ambush. So instead of just taking the train back north they had to abandon it. They were hunted down and killed or captured.
Why would anyone build a gun like this!? They had to use fricking railroad tracks!! This probably partly why they lost the war. Because they used a lot of metal to build the gun, when the metal could have been used for something else, like tanks or something. Also, it could only be fired a certain amount of times before the barrel was completely destroyed.
How mutch are you willing to pay to remove a fortification that stop your advance? A expensive super gun, is cheaper then to drown the fortress in blood....
Fun fact this was made into a Yu-Gi-Oh card. It’s called Gustav Max.
can you do a video on the gt3 gas turbine
they have to aim it nearly straight up to hit something that ISN'T 40 miles away does that tell something about it?
I mean, German engeneering is the world's finest. If you get what I mean ;)
"Thomas meets Gustav"
The T U R B O M O R T A R
My favorite overkill weapon of world war 2
Wargaming be like - That would be a nice addition as a TierX German Premium for black market.
OH lAWD HE COMIN
What monsters. You sort of hint at what they might have happened if they had been deployed on the French coast. Thankfully the air force ruled out that possibility.
Who would win? The Gustav canon? Or a thermite grenade the side of a Monster can.
Funny you mentioned a Breaking Bad reference, lmao
Why are you uploading video every Friday ?
jeez
imagine if someone made a tungsten sabot round for this thing...yikes.
Railgun but literally
This is a gundam weapon
the main problem with Gustav was after 86 shots the barrel was done that's why the germans destroyed it after stalin grad. Hind side: would the left it at normandy the story would be very different told today.
THIS ISN'T JUST A TRAINZ THING???
Walter White brought me here.
Search Super Dreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max
Shy low.
What is this guy on
I betcha that any American that sees this gun would be very turned on by it
Mah-zhin-o Line
Yugioh players sweating rn.
Gustavo
The Mario line 😂
when the rail fans see gacha rail haters:
That’s a huge b...