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That video remains epic. IIRC, that was a regimental DPICM mission. Downrange had to be just SICK.
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"...just saying we weren't always smaller, is all"
Still wrong. Biggest tank guns I can recall were the KV-152 and the M60A2/M551 Sheridan. Neither exceeded what was in service with the artillery then.
Now stop this obstinate silliness.
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Hmm... so that's why there is anti personnel, anti tanks, anti aircraft, but no anti artillery weaponry? At least this lil civvie haven't heard of one.
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Hmm... so that's why there is anti personnel, anti tanks, anti aircraft, but no anti artillery weaponry? At least this lil civvie haven't heard of one.
The only thing an Artillery unit fears is another Artillery unit lying low somewhwere tasked with the counter battery mission.
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"Hmm... so that's why there is anti personnel, anti tanks, anti aircraft, but no anti artillery weaponry?"
Yes. All devised by the one true God to scour pestilence and vermin from the face of this good earth.
"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
Whose hose is bigger? The biggest modern artillery was the German Dora 800mm gun, there were bigger mortars (Little David), but that gun was the biggest BLR to see action AFAIK. Hitler had plans to mount it on a tracked vehicle and called it a P-1500 "tank". So there was a tie? Or does artillery claim both along with the 600mm Karl and call them SPG's?
Whose hose is bigger? The biggest modern artillery was the German Dora 800mm gun, there were bigger mortars (Little David), but that gun was the biggest BLR to see action AFAIK. Hitler had plans to mount it on a tracked vehicle and called it a P-1500 "tank". So there was a tie? Or does artillery claim both along with the 600mm Karl and call them SPG's?
The Monster was to be a 1,500 tonne mobile, self-propelled platform for an 80-cm K (E) gun, along with two 15 cm sFH 18 heavy howitzers, and multiple MG 151 autocannons normally used on combat aircraft. It was deemed impractical, and in 1943 was canceled by Albert Speer. It never left the drawing board and no progress was ever made. It would have easily surpassed the Panzer VIII Maus (heaviest tank ever built) and the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte (also never built) in weight and size.
Never built so doesn't count.
And the Soviet 2B1 Oka was an SP mortar not a tank.
A tracked chassis does not a tank make.
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The Monster was to be a 1,500 tonne mobile, self-propelled platform for an 80-cm K (E) gun, along with two 15 cm sFH 18 heavy howitzers, and multiple MG 151 autocannons normally used on combat aircraft. It was deemed impractical, and in 1943 was canceled by Albert Speer. It never left the drawing board and no progress was ever made. It would have easily surpassed the Panzer VIII Maus (heaviest tank ever built) and the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte (also never built) in weight and size.
Never built so doesn't count.
And the Soviet 2B1 Oka was an SP mortar not a tank.
A tracked chassis does not a tank make.
I too would call all these beasts SPG's (artillery), but many sources called some of them tanks. The Soviets had a 16" (406mm) gun version and a 420mm Mortar version of this SPG, the picture I posted is the gun according to the captions, strangely - the larger mortar has an even longer barrel (it has thinner barrel walls - so appears to have a lower working pressure). I agree the never built things don't count - but Hitler's obsession with giant guns was legendary - and the German's did build the guns - thought the landcruisers, beyond the Maus, never made it.
I disagree with the "no progress" statement about the landcruisers - the designs were one step in the progress. though the material resources were wisely not assigned to the projects. The completed and operational Dora gun demonstrated how these giants could actually serve the enemy better than their own army, tying up huge amounts of men and resources to little effect - Dora fired less than 45 projectiles in its entire career, and more than half of them were aimed at Warsaw - a non-miltiary and criminal use. It was used effectively only once, in June 1942, when it helped to destroy a fortress in Sevastapol.
"White Cliff" aka "Ammunition Mountion": an undersea ammunition magazine in Severnaya ("Northern") Bay. The magazine was sited 30 meters under the sea with at least 10 meters of concrete protection. After nine shells were fired, the magazine was ruined and one of the boats in the bay sunk.[4]
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