Biggest gun in the world*

*This gun was far and away the biggest gun when it was made. The exact barrel weight is 103.64 tons, and the carriage it sits on is another 46.82. It is definitely the biggest ever muzzle-loader. There were other big guns, beach-loaders such as those on the Yamamoto battleship, or the German Schwerer Gustav railway gun, but these don't count because they have either been destroyed or sent to the bottom of the sea. Other later railway guns, some of which survive at least in part, were built that sat on massive railway carriages, and these weighed more. Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige?sub_confirmation=1 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige More weapons and armour videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA860ECD7F894424 In Fort Rinella. Kalkara, Malta, there is one of the world's two surviving Armtrong Whitworth 100-ton guns. The barrel weighed 100 tons, and fired a one-ton shell to the horizon, where it could penetrate the armour of any ship. At five miles it had a hit rate of 98%. The crew was never exposed to enemy fire when it was in operation, as it swivelled this way and that for loading on hydraulics. Today, its fire rate of one round every six minutes makes it obsolete, but in its day, this was terrifyingly fast for so vast a weapon. The gun is not complete. Its loading mechanism was broken up for scrap, and the smaller bits that could be removed from the gun have gone, but the enormous bulk of its main sections are still there. It has been fired once in recent years by re-enactors, but just to create smoke, flame, and publicity. As I myself pointed out while I was there, before making the same lazy mistake on camera, the shell did not carry one ton of explosives inside it. The shell in its entirety including the explosives weighed one ton. It was a one-ton bomb, however, and the hardness of the shell contributed to the force of the concussion. The shell was propelled from the barrel by 450lbs of gunpowder. Local huntsmen would wait nearby during test-fires and recover unburned bits of powder scattered in front of the gun. See also: http://www.fortrinella.com/history.html Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make. Picture credits: "Rockbuster-front" by Julo - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockbuster-front.jpg#/media/File:Rockbuster-front.jpg "Duilio 1880 002". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duilio_1880_002.jpg#/media/File:Duilio_1880_002.jpg ▼ Follow me... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lindybeige I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads. Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Lindybeige (it's a 'page' and now seems to be working). Google+: "google.com/+lindybeige" website: www.LloydianAspects.co.uk Biggest gun in the world* http://www.youtube.com/user/"Lindybeige"

Comments

1. But is it the 800mm gun
2. i wonder how you aim something like that?
3. Huh? Iowa's guns are bigger: 406 mm cal, lenght 20 meters, weight 120 tons, shell weight up to 1.2 tons.
4. the gustav is bigger
5. Now my question is, can it shoot pomels to end my enemies rightly?
6. The german Gustav is and was the biggest gun ever built. It was a Railgun and shot 30 inch (as compare the bismarck Heavygun had 15 inch)
7. Great channel, great presentation
8. I have seen one I think is bigger in Harstad Norway there are 4 big guns left from WWII
9. gustav gun is the biggest gun in the world.
10. imagine 9 of these on the battleship USS Missouri... yup it was that powerful :)
11. There is another one in Gibraltar.
12. So I guess the Dora Gustav doesn't exist.
13. i think schwerer Gustav was bigger!
14. that tour guide is rapping :D awesome
15. the biggest gun is the Gustav gun with the shell being 800mm
16. Is this Califorian republican wet dream?
17. You gotta checkout jaiwan cannon in jaipur, its touted as biggest gun in the world. Having seen it personally i can vouch for it, its bigger than this one in your video
18. Oh #murder is so much fun........This is really the massage here ps that is a good sign of severe mental #health problems
    
    
    Thank you #Oxbridge for designing #humans like this
19. What about, Tsar Cannon, 890mm it 'exist' Because apparently we need to see it today for it to be fact, Pumhart Von Steyr 820mm other than that biggest gun ever used in combat was the Shwerer Gustav 800mm. This is pussy shit. 450mm? Mallet's mortar 914mm Little David 914mm Karl-Gerät exist 600mm later 540mm still bigger than this 450mm, 40 cm/45 Type 94 460mm, BL 18 inch railway howitzer 457.2mm BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun 457.2mm RML 17.72 inch gun 450mm.
20. i saw the guns on the Gibraltar i didnt have time to see the 100 ton gun but i still clibmed tha smaller ones pointing south. :) definitely go there to see it and dont take taxi up on the hill and you will see and dont comprehend that those hugde guns were lifted up by hands,