What is the London weapon?
The largest weapon ever built, at least by factor 3, is a V-3, also known as London Gun. At least two of these weapons were built by Nazi Germany and put bunkers in the chalk cliffs in France outsideyecques. It is a common misconception that weapons have never been built; They were, although the whole complex, which was originally intended to keep five weapons, was never completed due to allied bombing.
V-3 weapons, code named Hochdruckpumpe, "high-pressure pump" or Tausendfüßler , which means "Millipede", used the T-T-T-T-SEGMENTS that went along each segment 460 ft (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) (140 m) m). This allowed a retreat speed of more than 4,920 ft./s (1,500 m/s) for £ 308.6. (140 kg) shells, gives a range of over 102.5 miles (165 km). V-3, built at a fixed angle of 30 ° on the cliff, were supposed to intervene London, and therefore their alternative name. Since 2007 the London weapon is by far Tdosud has built the largest weaponň.
Construction on the London weapon began in September 1943 slaves. Hitler ordered weapons built as a terrorist weapon to expand the V-1 and V-2 missiles, which overturned the German army that feared that the selected position was too susceptible to the bombing. The chalk cliff held by the London weapon was 98 ft. The concrete was so strong that even 11,905 lb. (5,400 kg) Tallboy Peter Bombs used by the allies initially showed unnecessary.
informed about the early construction of the London weapon almost immediately by French resistance, the Allies began to bomb November 1943, only two months after the start of construction. On July 6, 1944, the three Vysobiboys, purely by chance, came to the shafts that were used for the contents of the barrels of the weapon, achieve a lower level of complex and kill dozens of workers. The London weapon work stopped at this moment but did not know that the Allies continued to attackOn the bunker using radio -controlled aircraft Kamikaze accompanied by aircraft drivers. Unfortunately, this strategy ended with deadly and several allied pilots, including the brother of the future president, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was killed in attacks on the complex.
Other very large weapons include rail weapons Schwerer Gustav and Dora , built by Krupp, which were the largest artillery pieces that have ever been built during the war. Weighing at 2 963 012.8 pounds. (1 344 tons), they could fire £ 15,432 (7 tons) shells at a distance of 23 miles (37 km) and played an active role during World War II. The largest weapon ever scheduled for construction was the "Big Babylon" Supergun, entrusted with Saddam Hussein, which was supposed to be about 500 ft (156 meters), with boredom over 3 ft (1 m), capable of starting the projectil in orbit. Plans to build this weapon disintegrated when her designer wasmurdered.