Schwerer Gustav (Super Gustav)
Ok, maybe this weapon is in response to Nazi's having unusually small penis'. Its the only reason why the German's would create this monster of modern artillery. This massive gun was designed as a railway bound seige gun in response to the French Maginot line. weighing in at 1360 tonnes, it could fire a 7 tonne round over 26 miles. It was considered a modern marvel of engineering and was actually used by the German's at the battle of Sevastpol.
The crew requirements were massive as the gun required 2500 men to lay the track for it, and then a further 250 men to assemble and operate it.
The gun had a firing rate of 1 round every 45 minutes or 12 rounds a day.
During its career, this gun fired a total of 48 rounds and was fairly successful in knocking out several Soviet fortresses and underground ammunition storage units.
The gun was disassembled and moved to Lenigrad and was ready to operate, however the Siege of Lennigrad was cancelled and the gun was eventually bought back to Germany where it was destroyed to prevent it from falling into Russian hands. In total two of these guns were built, the second one was called Dora. The manufacturer built the first one for free, but the second gun Dora cost the Reich $7 million Reichsmarks or $94 million dollars US today roughly.
These weren't the only German super guns.
The Germans were building the Langer Gustav which was designed to fire rocket powered projectiles over 100 miles. They were also building the self propelled Landkruezer p.1500 monster which would have mounted a pair of 150 mm howitzer which would propel 7 tonne shells over 25 miles.
