The biggest gun ever🤯

Schwerer Gustav was the biggest, and heaviest weapon ever used in battle. Its construction began in 1934 and wasn't finished until 1941. Other than being scary, it really begs the question, was it worthwhile?

[fujiwara_chika]

Breaking bad fans knowing Walter can easily break through this😂

[bricksalive]

When German engineers actually pulled off one of hitler’s wild inventions 😂

[redstonecircuitoffunmc]

Leave it to the 4chan users, they'll find where it was buried

[Phildo]

The Gustav’s whereabouts aren’t “unknown” it doesn’t exist anymore. The Nazi’s destroyed it. They did it piece by piece so that if any pieces were found(and they were) The Allies wouldn’t be able to reassemble it and use it after The Nazi’s fell. They did manage to find a few sections of barrel but that was sadly all that remained of the Gustav. I say sadly bc being a big fan of history but especially military history & WW2.

[jesuscroist]

"In World War II, the Germans had an artillery piece - it's the biggest in the world - called the Gustav Gun, and it weighed a thousand tons. And the Gustav was capable of firing a seven-ton shell and hitting a target, accurately, twenty-three miles away. [chuckles] I mean, you could drop bombs on it every day for a month without every disabling it. But, drop a commando - one man, with just a bag of this - and he could melt right through four inches of steel and destroy that gun forever."
-Waltuh White


Edit: OMG TOP COMMENT?!?!?!

[psdgjgb]

Fun facts:
Its german name was Schwerer Gustav - Heavy Gustav
Its fire rate was around 16 shots a DAY and it shot only 46 times, all during SevastOpol siege
They planned to make second(Dora(which they made)) and third(Langer Gustav(did not finish))

[davidlangston]

"It was destroyed, so nobody could get it." "It's whereabouts are unknown." Well... things do tend to disappear when they're destroyed. Also, not sure why they didn't just leave it for someone to get them they could have wasted their enemies time and money on the world's most impractical weapon.

[shatterpoint]

The Gustav Gun made me remember Walter White. And think that maybe this was the inspiration for the "Morpho" in the "86 Eighty Six" anime/light novel.

[lemonhurdle]

Yeah it was vulnerable to air bombs but that more referenced the crew than the gun. But you could also drop a single commando with a bag of thermite and they could melt through 4 inches of steel and destroy the gun forever.

[aswinp]

A chemistry prof told me about this long ago. He loves making blue shiny glassy things

[DavidGangteDG]

Legends say they're still dismantling the big gun.

[bababoi]

Bro the amount of nostalgia from this tank from the tank cartoons in 2015 is immeasurable

[DominikusTV]

It used double parallel tracks to carry its weight. The tracks formed a curve at the firing position in order to aim by moving the gun along the tracks

[rostikostik]

This "superweapon" would be logistical nightmare even for 2023 🤣

[JuliusCaesar]

To be fair, this weapon wasn't any type of innovative marvel. It was just weaponry scaled way up and was essentially too ponderous for regular field work.

[josipfiala]

I think technology nowadays is powerful enough to make more practical version of Gustav Gun, which is terrifying to think about, this Gustav was able to possibly destroy one town in one go, who knows what would new Gustav do with current technology

[davidtilley]

It's being rebuilt in space. It will be the 3rd Death Star.

[musicman]

this takes railgun to a whole nother level

[frankobruv]

Dude deserves a million subscribers, so underated, you deserve more

[Meanhiltonmy]

Gustav also used when Germany invade the Soviet