+Stefan Frunza > What type of permit do you need to open carry that gun. A Class C drivers license with CDL endorsements H or X (probably L as well), I suppose? :-)
I come from Malta and I heavily disagree, beautiful gardens are constantly covered in concrete or dog shit. Clearwater bays are a joke because there is only one (if it still exists) that is truly natural, the rest are filthy. The worst part? The country is corrupt to high hell. I've lived in Malta for a good 12 years until 3 years ago, and it was always a trash heap. Don't know about you but all I can say is your critically wrong. Except for the 100 ton gun...shooting bullshit to shower the Maltese media.
@@baddog5936 HAHAHAHA...nope fam. Some may look good, but they tend to be gold diggers and they ain't loyal. The rest aren't pretty whatsoever and the sad part is they have no redeeming qualities.
For the people talking about guns such as the Schwere Gustav being bigger, that is true. He did however have a disclamer that says that it is the biggest surviving.
My new favorite quote - "if you were an enemy ship, and this saw you and got angry. You'd have to get to terms with NOT being an enemy ship, for very much longer."
Not necessarily true. As you may have noticed, ships move - quite fast when you're trying to retrain the barrel of a monster like this. They're not just going to sit there and let themselves be hit. A couple of fast destroyers could easily appear over the horizon and zigzag toward this gun emplacement, firing as they came: they'd have a good chance of putting it out of action before the bigger, slower ships moved past within range. I think there's a good reason why more such monsters were _not_ deployed by the coastal batteries of the world. Smaller, more quickly re-aimable guns would be much more effective.
BULLSHIT it can't even penetrate the fucking Arizona since it launches spherical projectiles and if you're looking for the strongest gun then go for the Yamato 460mm cannons or even the fucking Gustav super railway gun or if you're going for barrel size then the KARL GERRAT IS YOUR BEST CHOICE!!!!!! NOT BIAS FYI BUT FUCKING FACTS
As it was said in Leo Murray’s Brains and Bullets, when every missile costs the same as a new Porsche, it seems a waste to think they might not be killing anybody.
The world's largest surviving gun is the 18 inch 47 caliber gun Mark A at Dahlgren Naval Weapons Facility in Virginia, it weighs 180 metric tons. There were also larger black powder guns(17 inch breech loading cannons for the italian battleships Italia and Lepanto) but this is the largest muzzle loading cannon ever built.
hey look at me, I'm so smart, I said it wasn't the biggest gun in the world. too bad I'm not smart enough to read the description or the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen literally right in the beginning of the video.
Actually, I don't think it would be. After all, it's just a muzzleloading cannon; it's even pre-1898. Well, the explosive shell might be; good luck getting the shells past the feds anyway, they have to approve explosive shells with more than I think an ounce of explosives, and you have to pay for a tax stamp for each shell.
Thats one impressive gun, but its not the largest. The largest i know of is the Schwerer Gustav. It fired 7 Tone shells an impresive 39km from a 32.5 meter barrel. It was however a gun from WW2, and it was a railway gun.
Lindybeige Some of the Iowa class battleships are still in existence as museum ships. Their 16"/50 guns weigh almost 120 tons (that's proper imperial tons not weak willed, effeminate metric tonnes or crappy little American short tons) and they could fire a 2700 lb Mk. 8 AP projectile (that's over 1.2 tons) or later a Nuclear Mk. 23 shell with a yield of about 15 to 20 kt. I think that beats these, admittedly impressive, Armstrong 100 ton guns in most regards except caliber.
They do fire it. Once a year but only using black powder as it's obviously illegal to fire 1 ton shells into the sea, and since its so old it will open up like a flower if real ammunition is used.
The Gustav didn't survive the war, but two smaller German railway guns did survive. These were Krupp K5 guns. One in on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum in Fort Lee (Petersburg, Virginia). The Ordnance museum is not open to the public. The Iowa class battleships had nine 16 inch guns that weighed 133 tons each. Four of these ships survive today as museums, and one is in Virginia. There was also the M1919 coastal defense gun the weighed 484 tons. There was one at Aberdeen proving grounds.
I don't think that cameras were invented by the time that it was operable, there are paintings though, but the artist died when he tried to pull that 60fps thing.
They fire it once a year but only using black powder because the beast will blow up if real ammunition is used, since its over 100 years old. Just look up "Fort Rinella gun firing."
Too bad them videos aren’t a good comparison. It’s only a 10kg charge with no projectile. If it was filled with 200kg of BP and a 1t projectile. You’d know about it
If some poor bastard had to fire that gun manually and hide in that alcove in the wall, was he provided with the world's fluffiest earmuffs that Victorian science could produce? Or was it just expected that he would be instantly and permanently deaf as a post?
+elektro3000 Probably he would open his jaw, as if you are equalizing pressure, while firing, hence the blast hopefully won't shatter your eardrums. It's not guaranteed to save your hearing, but it's a neat trick used by artillerymen at the time.
"Hey Mr. artilleryman, how comes you don't get deaf operating this beast?""...? huh?""I said: How comes you don't get deaf operating these? ""Huh?""HOW! COMES! YOU! DON'T!... - oh, just forget about my question. Good bye."
Lindybeige uses pop culture references so sparingly that "in the wohld" at the beginning is like a rare sighting of a Yeti and feels really special to witness
1:34 1 ton of shell does not equal 1 ton of explosive, according to wikipedia the shells had between 32 and 5 pounds, depending on shelltype. The major part of an artillery shell is made of iron so the explosive can withstand the shock when fired.
therealgsicht Yes, you are right. Annoyingly, I made the same point myself when I was there but then on camera made the same lazy slip. The hardness of the shell made the concussion greater, however. 5 lbs? I wouldn't have thought that such a charge would be enough to burst the shell. The cross-sections of the shells I saw suggested a much larger charge.
Lindybeige Hmm, iam not an expert, but i would think that 19th century cast iron is simply not as tough as we would think of modern steel today. I'm told cast iron is generally more prone to fragmenting when under certain kinds of stress, which is why HESH ammo was more effective against cast iron tanks. As for the 5 lbs, i bet the frag round was grooved from the inside to break into many fragments easier, or partly made of weaker materials to achieve the desired effect.
Now that's just amazing. Those must have been terrifying to have to battle during war. In 1884 they could potentially fire a one ton shell into space. Now that's what I call more dakka
I remember climbing all over this gun as a lad in the 60s. It was derelict then, for want of a better expression. I still have photos. All our dens etc were in abandoned gun emplacements (usually for 5.5s). Dad was in the army and we were in Malta for 3 years; there was loads of history like this then.
I was under the impression that the Adolfkanone in Harstad, Norway was the biggest land based cannon in the world. It weighs in at 1,475 tonnes, has a barrel weight of 158,664 kg, barrel length of 21.5m and fires shells weighing 1,030 kg every two minutes on targets up to 56 km away.
It looks like it's rifled, so I wonder what the expected barrel life of it was. The Paris Gun, a massive artillery piece from WW2, had a barrel life of only 65 rounds. The rounds had to be numbered sequentially in the order they were fired to account for the increase in barrel diameter.
Bedsheetrubber92 Battleships and the ballistic computer, for example, the 16 inch/ L50 guns of a US navy battleship are NOT limited to as far as they can physically see, they can fire OVER the horizon, many times farther then this old style of gun could, so in theory, the battleship could destroy the coastal battery without even having seen it, and when these battleship mounted guns could fire a round of equal weight to these antique giants but at a much farther distance [20 or so miles], they became obsolete without firing a shot, not to say these sorts of guns where not powerful enough to deal with these new age battleships, they just physically could not be elevated high enough to engage the battleships, nor did they have the velocity to reach them.
The man telling about the guns is quite a character.. I have spoken with him about the fort etc etc and I believe he must be form that time. Thanks for sharing!
Allo allo was set in France. It all depends doesn't it, starting with the fact he has French as a mother tongue. There are also Flemish and German speaking Belgians. Unintelligible people exist everywhere, even where English is the official language, would you believe?
I remember being dumbfounded by this gun as a 11-year old. Later served my mandatory year as an artillery battery ammunitions and maintenance sergeant. We never fired anything bigger than 155mm, though.
The Little David, Mallet’s Mortar, BL 18-in. naval gun, and 45 Type 94 were all larger. Not all of the last ones were lost; 27 were made and only 18 sank with the Yamato-class battleships.
The kernel of truth in that line is that British Army soldiers were charged for lost equipment, unless they could prove that the equipment was lost in battle. Since the net pay of a Napoleonic-era soldier was seven pounds, seven shillings, and seven pence, loss of a musket would turn a soldier into a volunteer for the rest of his career.
You say it can only fire as far as it can see which is 8 miles, but there are obviously cases of ships engaging each other at farther distances which did not have observers any higher than that gun seems to be, and you can clearly see ships farther than 8 miles away if you are only a few feet off the water.
you do know that the Iowa battle ships still exist. This gun is no were near that. 1 US short ton is 2,200 pounds. 2700 pounds is 1.2 metric tons. "They fired projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,690 feet per second (820 m/s) with a range of up to 24 miles (39 km). "
john shead But was it a rifled muzzle loader? Sure, we have bigger guns, but the Armstrong 100 ton gun was built in the late Victorian Era, not closer to modern day, and was a muzzle loader, not a breech loader.
@@artificersworkshop exactly that making yours dick bigger because "you" have bigger gun is so stupid. In those time and till now it's biggest muzzleloader gun and that all he said...
this is actually the biggest cannon/ gunpowder gun ever made.. weighing at 100 tons and firing a 1 ton shell.. it fires a 200kg gun powder and has a rate of fire off 1 fire /minute.. the guide book actually not wrong.. it's just maybe a typo or some sort. and for more information, go check out forgotten weapon's video for more detail there.
"ready for action 1884 to 19095" Thats wrong , its still ready to fire. The belgian captain is still aware of how to fire it, we WILL defeat them at the seas before they get much closer i tell you
dreyrugr the ol' girl still has quite the military, its not like they faded into complete obscurity, messing with them would still be quite a bad idea...
theguy9208 Yeah, but if they had no support from NATO they wouldn't be able to fight off powers like China or Russia, they just don't have the numbers anymore.
May I suggest, that you visit Fort Scratchley at Newcastle (on Sea, Australia). It has two naval guns (6 inches I believe), which they fire; it did have other guns, and 'disappearing' guns.
The 100-ton gun arrived in Malta from Woolwich on 10 September 1882. It remained at the dockyards for some months before being ferried to Rinella Bay. Over the next three months one hundred men from the Royal Artillery manhandled it to the battery. The gun entered service in January 1884. Practice firing was limited to one short every three months due to cost; each shell cost as much as the daily wage of 2600 soldiers. The gun fired for the last time on 5 May 1905 before being withdrawn from active service in 1906. It never saw action in 20 years of service.
Eddie Gruver But I imagine, barring those (say, if it got a surprise round off)... Yeah, it'd probably sink a carrier with a direct hit. And it'd probably also make for a hell of a sub-sinker.
Sentinalh He didn't ask what kind of damage it would do a modern vessel. Aircraft carriers carry, well, aircraft and other modern military vessels are equipped with missiles.
Do you live in Malta? I visited there last year when I was 16 and loved it! I'm thinking of living there when I am older would it be wise for me to learn Maltese?
They call this the hundred ton gun, I believe its the largest cannon, being loaded from the muzzle end as opposed to the breech loading guns like the carl Gustav or the Yamamoto naval guns. The location at Rinella fort overlooks the yard where they stored the props for the film Troy, you can see one of the boats in this film. It must have been quite a haul for the soldiers to drag the thing up the steep hill to be installed at the gun platform
Coastal Artillerie with 45cm Kaliber, gets called the biggest Gun in the World Gerät40/Karl Mortar with 60cm Concrete Shells: Interesting Dora Railway Gun/Schwerer Gustav, with 80cm Kaliber: Am i a Joke to you?
In the siege of Sevastopol the Germans had the largest artillery there. They had 2 600mm mortars called Thor and Odin. They also had a railway gun called Dora which had a call at of 800mm. This little gun is tiny compacted to the shots fired at Sevastopol. Stand down little boys
Chech out the 20 inch Rodman guns in New York harbor in the war between the states 1860s. Made possible by his ability to cool the huge castings from within the tubes and his development of better propellant. Too clever.
Karl-Gerät had a 2 ton shell with a 600mm barrel. It could penetrate 8.2 ft (2.5 meters) of reinforced concrete 6.2 miles (10km) away. It was classed as a self-propelled siege mortar. I do admit that guns is impressive but the Karl-Gerät is just a bit more interesting. You can find one sitting next to the Panzer VIII Maus.
In my hometown, Harstad in Norway there is a fortress with 4 guns that are bigger :-D It also fired a 1 ton shell, . The bore was - 406 mm (16.0 in), with Length of barrel with rear piece - 21.5 m (71 ft), Weight of barrel - 158 metric tons (158,664 kg), rate of fire: 2 shells a minute, Shell weight - standard explosive and armour-piercing shell 1,020-1,030 kg (2,250-2,270 lb) German type L/4.8 and L/4.4, Propellant weight - 2 part charge total weight 302 kg for ordinary shell and 312 kg for long range shell, Maximum range - Standard shell 42,800 m (42.8 km); long-range shell 56,000 m (56 km), Muzzle Velocity - Standard shell 810 m/s (2,700 ft/s); long-range shell 1,000 m/s (3,300 ft/s) Mountings - 2 gun turret Drh LC/34 (1,475 metric tons)
Me thinks the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the Iowa class battleships were slightly heavier, especially when including the breech. And yes, these guns still exist and have been fired last 20 years ago. They were also fired in anger. Plenty!
The 16-inch 50-Cal Mk 7 is bigger (and was in actual use until recently). But that's definitely a ginormous muzzle loader. Also the HE charges on those shells were probably 40-50 kg at most... nothing close to 1 ton of explosive.
koffieslikkersenior Belgian either speak some weird form of Dutch, or they speak a weird form of French. I think they should be forced to have to invent their own language.
Well for the Belgium people that's a bit complicated because their history had been contently getting conquested by other nations so they have many influences in speech French dutch English and German some of the popular languages spoken
will o whisp Conquested? Of the big five Clovis was from Tournai, Charlemagne from Herstal and Charles V from Ghent. Only Napoleon and Hitler are from elsewhere.
well, it depends on what do you mean by "the largest". The 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 is smaller in caliber but much longer and heavier (121 ton), moreover, the AP Mark 8 shell weighted a little bit heavier (1,225 kg).
What type of permit do you need to open carry that gun.
Stefan Frunza You don't need one, you just need to be the hulk, that's your permit
Kvarnholmen if you can lift it do you even need a gun??
If you walk around with it, I don't think anyone will complain to you about it.
A permit from a doctor I guess... and a psichologist.
+Stefan Frunza
> What type of permit do you need to open carry that gun.
A Class C drivers license with CDL endorsements H or X (probably L as well), I suppose? :-)
Ah Malta home to beautiful gardens, clearwater bays and a 100 ton gun.
The gun is what keeps the bays clear.
And some of the finest looking girls. Mmmm mmmm
I come from Malta and I heavily disagree, beautiful gardens are constantly covered in concrete or dog shit. Clearwater bays are a joke because there is only one (if it still exists) that is truly natural, the rest are filthy. The worst part? The country is corrupt to high hell. I've lived in Malta for a good 12 years until 3 years ago, and it was always a trash heap. Don't know about you but all I can say is your critically wrong. Except for the 100 ton gun...shooting bullshit to shower the Maltese media.
@@baddog5936 HAHAHAHA...nope fam. Some may look good, but they tend to be gold diggers and they ain't loyal. The rest aren't pretty whatsoever and the sad part is they have no redeeming qualities.
Malta has declared war upon your nation, may god save you now.
For the people talking about guns such as the Schwere Gustav being bigger, that is true. He did however have a disclamer that says that it is the biggest surviving.
Kuiper he didnt say that
+B8m8 Wuts
...Yes he did. Read the description
Michael Yu one of those gun has survived if my sources arent b shit
The you should be able to give evidence of it today..
My source was post on youtube dont ask wich because i forgot
2:38 top 5 rappers eminem was too scared to face.
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I love how the gun has camo on it like they are going to hide that thing
Well you can't see it's black carriage, so at 8 miles away, you could probably not distinguish its shape from the surrounding sandy coloured houses.
The paint also probably helps prevent erosion from the sea.
what gun thought
Better that shinny reflective metal under the sun
What Sumvs said, and a way so that aircrafts probably can not see it clearly when looking down below, or looking at their scopes, I think
My new favorite quote - "if you were an enemy ship, and this saw you and got angry. You'd have to get to terms with NOT being an enemy ship, for very much longer."
Very Douglas Addams-y. I liked it too lol
Not necessarily true. As you may have noticed, ships move - quite fast when you're trying to retrain the barrel of a monster like this. They're not just going to sit there and let themselves be hit. A couple of fast destroyers could easily appear over the horizon and zigzag toward this gun emplacement, firing as they came: they'd have a good chance of putting it out of action before the bigger, slower ships moved past within range. I think there's a good reason why more such monsters were _not_ deployed by the coastal batteries of the world. Smaller, more quickly re-aimable guns would be much more effective.
That line was absolute gold
BULLSHIT it can't even penetrate the fucking Arizona since it launches spherical projectiles and if you're looking for the strongest gun then go for the Yamato 460mm cannons or even the fucking Gustav super railway gun or if you're going for barrel size then the KARL GERRAT IS YOUR BEST CHOICE!!!!!! NOT BIAS FYI BUT FUCKING FACTS
@Communist space bears Bloody correct
2:38 Love him or hate him, he's spittin' straight facts.
7 times the salary of a soldier? Bargain.
A Tomahawk cruise missile costs $1.5m.
So one of these bullets is only around 175k? That sounds reasonable considering what it's sinking...
The british were stingy
average politicians salary !
As it was said in Leo Murray’s Brains and Bullets, when every missile costs the same as a new Porsche, it seems a waste to think they might not be killing anybody.
B2 bomber:"hey buddy you see this little thing there?"
SR-71:"sweet."
The world's largest surviving gun is the 18 inch 47 caliber gun Mark A at Dahlgren Naval Weapons Facility in Virginia, it weighs 180 metric tons. There were also larger black powder guns(17 inch breech loading cannons for the italian battleships Italia and Lepanto) but this is the largest muzzle loading cannon ever built.
hey look at me, I'm so smart, I said it wasn't the biggest gun in the world. too bad I'm not smart enough to read the description or the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen literally right in the beginning of the video.
@Ian Lundquist dumb
First!
Darn! The man himself beat me to it!
Lindybeige It reminds me of the short film "Cannon Fodder", especially with the description that Belgian guy gives.
Lindybeige What about the German "Schwerer Gustav"
TheBadbro12 Did you not see the "surviving, by weight" note in the video? You may want to pay better attention.
***** I didn't see that note either. So thankyou.
Someone please remix that guy spitting them fat instructions at 2:40
Rap god.
Need to be a meme
saw him irl so funny
I first read this as "Beigest gun in the world".
Prinselijk Coder To be fair, as guns go, this one is pretty beige.
Mantis47, it is beige, isn't it? Looks beige to me.
BJP
Prinselijk Coder he should reload it in that name...
2:40 I only understood *"THE LITTEL HOLS"*
I think that’s “the little hose”
I thought it said lederhosen
2:06 Laughed myself to bits😂😂😂
I wonder if this gun is banned in California?
Invisible Camel wasn't Gerald Bull playing around with his big gun in California? That little baby could should into space, literally.
***** wut?
Invisible Camel
It's commiefornia, I wouldn't be surprised if big kitchen knives were banned.
Actually, I don't think it would be. After all, it's just a muzzleloading cannon; it's even pre-1898. Well, the explosive shell might be; good luck getting the shells past the feds anyway, they have to approve explosive shells with more than I think an ounce of explosives, and you have to pay for a tax stamp for each shell.
I dunno if they are regulated in California. But they sure as hell aren't in Nevada.
Thats one impressive gun, but its not the largest. The largest i know of is the Schwerer Gustav. It fired 7 Tone shells an impresive 39km from a 32.5 meter barrel. It was however a gun from WW2, and it was a railway gun.
***** It doesn't exist any more.
Lindybeige True, but it was still a bigger gun.
Lindybeige what about HARP project gun on Barbados? it's still there
Lindybeige Some of the Iowa class battleships are still in existence as museum ships. Their 16"/50 guns weigh almost 120 tons (that's proper imperial tons not weak willed, effeminate metric tonnes or crappy little American short tons) and they could fire a 2700 lb Mk. 8 AP projectile (that's over 1.2 tons) or later a Nuclear Mk. 23 shell with a yield of about 15 to 20 kt. I think that beats these, admittedly impressive, Armstrong 100 ton guns in most regards except caliber.
unipetrolak good point its also a very massive gun, especially with the 410mm barrel diameter. and 40meter barrel length.
too bad they can't fire it :( would be a sight to behold
They do fire it. Once a year but only using black powder as it's obviously illegal to fire 1 ton shells into the sea, and since its so old it will open up like a flower if real ammunition is used.
I would PAY to see a Schwerer Gustav railgun fired...
sure. if you pay them for everything that's required to fire the gun
They do fire it but only once a year
Hydraulic pump is ready.. 100K to rebuild it.. now they are going to test it again and the mfucker is gonna shot again after 100 years
"am I ordering an artillery strike or a meteor to go?"
The Gustav didn't survive the war, but two smaller German railway guns did survive. These were Krupp K5 guns. One in on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum in Fort Lee (Petersburg, Virginia). The Ordnance museum is not open to the public. The Iowa class battleships had nine 16 inch guns that weighed 133 tons each. Four of these ships survive today as museums, and one is in Virginia. There was also the M1919 coastal defense gun the weighed 484 tons. There was one at Aberdeen proving grounds.
Does a video exist of this thing being fired?
I don't think that cameras were invented by the time that it was operable, there are paintings though, but the artist died when he tried to pull that 60fps thing.
They fire it once a year but only using black powder because the beast will blow up if real ammunition is used, since its over 100 years old. Just look up "Fort Rinella gun firing."
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Too bad them videos aren’t a good comparison. It’s only a 10kg charge with no projectile. If it was filled with 200kg of BP and a 1t projectile. You’d know about it
I'd hate to drop one of those shells on my foot
Ouch
you wouldn't have a foot left! haha
+J Winx would he have a foot right?
Har har!
I love you blokes.
First Last
It shoots giant pommels at its targets
If some poor bastard had to fire that gun manually and hide in that alcove in the wall, was he provided with the world's fluffiest earmuffs that Victorian science could produce? Or was it just expected that he would be instantly and permanently deaf as a post?
He had a pair of chickens sewn into a hat, I guess.
+Josh Adams Thank you for that fantastic image! XD
+elektro3000 Probably he would open his jaw, as if you are equalizing pressure, while firing, hence the blast hopefully won't shatter your eardrums. It's not guaranteed to save your hearing, but it's a neat trick used by artillerymen at the time.
"Hey Mr. artilleryman, how comes you don't get deaf operating this beast?""...? huh?""I said: How comes you don't get deaf operating these? ""Huh?""HOW! COMES! YOU! DON'T!... - oh, just forget about my question. Good bye."
"You'd have to get to terms with not being an enemy ship for very much longer" I just love your humour so much
Lindybeige uses pop culture references so sparingly that "in the wohld" at the beginning is like a rare sighting of a Yeti and feels really special to witness
1:34 1 ton of shell does not equal 1 ton of explosive, according to wikipedia the shells had between 32 and 5 pounds, depending on shelltype. The major part of an artillery shell is made of iron so the explosive can withstand the shock when fired.
therealgsicht Yes, you are right. Annoyingly, I made the same point myself when I was there but then on camera made the same lazy slip. The hardness of the shell made the concussion greater, however. 5 lbs? I wouldn't have thought that such a charge would be enough to burst the shell. The cross-sections of the shells I saw suggested a much larger charge.
Lindybeige Hmm, iam not an expert, but i would think that 19th century cast iron is simply not as tough as we would think of modern steel today. I'm told cast iron is generally more prone to fragmenting when under certain kinds of stress, which is why HESH ammo was more effective against cast iron tanks. As for the 5 lbs, i bet the frag round was grooved from the inside to break into many fragments easier, or partly made of weaker materials to achieve the desired effect.
Now that's just amazing. Those must have been terrifying to have to battle during war. In 1884 they could potentially fire a one ton shell into space. Now that's what I call more dakka
***** Needs more dakka
***** no, they couldn't, Lindy was exaggerating
why would they bother with rockets if you could reach space that easily
unipetrolak Because it hurt me bum bum.
unipetrolak Well even *if* it could, you'd use rockets because you might want to be alive at the "in space" part.
***** And if they painted it red it would have fired faster
Japanese battleship class you mentioned in the description was the Yamato class. Yamamoto an admiral in WWII.
I remember climbing all over this gun as a lad in the 60s. It was derelict then, for want of a better expression. I still have photos. All our dens etc were in abandoned gun emplacements (usually for 5.5s). Dad was in the army and we were in Malta for 3 years; there was loads of history like this then.
I was under the impression that the Adolfkanone in Harstad, Norway was the biggest land based cannon in the world. It weighs in at 1,475 tonnes, has a barrel weight of 158,664 kg, barrel length of 21.5m and fires shells weighing 1,030 kg every two minutes on targets up to 56 km away.
It looks like it's rifled, so I wonder what the expected barrel life of it was.
The Paris Gun, a massive artillery piece from WW2, had a barrel life of only 65 rounds. The rounds had to be numbered sequentially in the order they were fired to account for the increase in barrel diameter.
Nix6p Yes, it was rifled. Bronze studs on the outside of the shells gripped the rifling.
Nix6p Paris gun was WWI, Schwerer Gustav and Dora were WWII
Lindybeige Must have been hard to ram it down.
Lindy - the Battleship is the Yamato, Yamamato was the Admiral
What made this gun obsolete?
Bedsheetrubber92 It was insanely expensive to fire and impractical.
Bedsheetrubber92 Breach-loaders with far higher rates of fire. Also, improvements in explosives. This thing used black powder.
Bedsheetrubber92 aircraft, and missiles. same things that put battleships out of service.
Mobile artillery
Bedsheetrubber92 Battleships and the ballistic computer, for example, the 16 inch/ L50 guns of a US navy battleship are NOT limited to as far as they can physically see, they can fire OVER the horizon, many times farther then this old style of gun could, so in theory, the battleship could destroy the coastal battery without even having seen it, and when these battleship mounted guns could fire a round of equal weight to these antique giants but at a much farther distance [20 or so miles], they became obsolete without firing a shot, not to say these sorts of guns where not powerful enough to deal with these new age battleships, they just physically could not be elevated high enough to engage the battleships, nor did they have the velocity to reach them.
Imagine having to cut a soldier’s wages for seven years just to fire this gun, 😂
The man telling about the guns is quite a character.. I have spoken with him about the fort etc etc and I believe he must be form that time. Thanks for sharing!
"Don't climb the gun" Where is the fun in that?
Maybe trying to stop people from snapping Dr.Strangelove-selfies :P
So 471 m/s is 1.38 mach. Meaning the shell would reach you before you heard the absurd amount of noise it would make as it ripped through the air.
Jaye Foster Yes, it was supersonic. You'd see the flash about 15 seconds before your ship's destruction.
Antoine Blanchez might've just become one of my new favourite persons.
"beach-loaders such as those on the Yamamoto battleship" *breech *Yamato
gel test please
You forgot to mention that this video also features the World's Silliest Helmets
Calgach V. Haha, reminded me of SpaceBalls
Calgach V. Also, The World's Best Rehearsed Discourse.
Calgach V. I'm not sure about that... There'll always be this i.imgur.com/doSrFTd.jpg
Ohhhhhhhh shots fired!
Calgach V. British military pith helmets are silly? I think they're pretty stylish.
I couldn't understand a word of what Antoine said.
Iconoclasm_ It was something about "a hundred tons".
Belgians really are unintelligible then, I always thought 'Allo 'Allo was making it up!
Iconoclasm_ something about 180 degrees, cleaning barrel, 180 degrees more bullshit cleaning then BAM LOADED AND FIRED.
Allo allo was set in France. It all depends doesn't it, starting with the fact he has French as a mother tongue. There are also Flemish and German speaking Belgians. Unintelligible people exist everywhere, even where English is the official language, would you believe?
He was easier to understand than Biden.
I went to Fort Rinella earlier this year. I highly recommend it, the guides do a great job.
I remember being dumbfounded by this gun as a 11-year old. Later served my mandatory year as an artillery battery ammunitions and maintenance sergeant. We never fired anything bigger than 155mm, though.
Classic Clarkson quote, and today on TOP GUN !!!!
It sounds like you were channeling your inner Clarkson for a moment.
"The biggest gun..... in the world."
Rob Watson I couldn't go the whole hog. I am my own producer and I'm not happy with punching myself in the face.
Having to sack yourself would be a bit of a blow to your channel too.
Rob Watson you gave me an honest laugh good sir !
Lindybeige To be fair, I don't see your mucking up your own catering.
That is a hell of a lot of steel.
Huh, didn't expect to see you here.
why are you of all people here?
The Dora and Schwerer Gustav fired shells more than 4 times as heavy. And the size of the gun it self was tremendously larger than this one.
7 tonne shells, the Schwerer Gustave fire. 80cm gun.
I went there this week and can confirm the shells are farcically large. Really good tour too.
The Little David, Mallet’s Mortar, BL 18-in. naval gun, and 45 Type 94 were all larger. Not all of the last ones were lost; 27 were made and only 18 sank with the Yamato-class battleships.
I suppose the battleship Yamato's 18-inch guns technically still exist. Somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.
2:05 Oh My Lord "comin out of your wages" "Oh sarge :(" xD
The kernel of truth in that line is that British Army soldiers were charged for lost equipment, unless they could prove that the equipment was lost in battle. Since the net pay of a Napoleonic-era soldier was seven pounds, seven shillings, and seven pence, loss of a musket would turn a soldier into a volunteer for the rest of his career.
18" deviation at 4 miles? that .01 MOA accuracy ...
You say it can only fire as far as it can see which is 8 miles, but there are obviously cases of ships engaging each other at farther distances which did not have observers any higher than that gun seems to be, and you can clearly see ships farther than 8 miles away if you are only a few feet off the water.
Now THAT is a big iron.
So what kind of bridge was that in the beginning? Intrigued at fortifications.
Snarky Knowitall Guthrie.
Much appreciated.
you do know that the Iowa battle ships still exist. This gun is no were near that. 1 US short ton is 2,200 pounds. 2700 pounds is 1.2 metric tons.
"They fired projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,690 feet per second (820 m/s) with a range of up to 24 miles (39 km). "
A short ton is 2000lb
john shead But was it a rifled muzzle loader? Sure, we have bigger guns, but the Armstrong 100 ton gun was built in the late Victorian Era, not closer to modern day, and was a muzzle loader, not a breech loader.
@@artificersworkshop exactly that making yours dick bigger because "you" have bigger gun is so stupid.
In those time and till now it's biggest muzzleloader gun and that all he said...
My dad can beat your dad in fight.
"Do you like big guns" As an American, I am insulted that you would ask this...
Of course I like big guns lol.
this is actually the biggest cannon/ gunpowder gun ever made.. weighing at 100 tons and firing a 1 ton shell.. it fires a 200kg gun powder and has a rate of fire off 1 fire /minute.. the guide book actually not wrong.. it's just maybe a typo or some sort. and for more information, go check out forgotten weapon's video for more detail there.
The Italians had these same guns mounted on some of their battleships, which is why the British put them at Malta and Gibraltar.
"ready for action 1884 to 19095"
Thats wrong , its still ready to fire. The belgian captain is still aware of how to fire it, we WILL defeat them at the seas before they get much closer i tell you
Civilization DLC please.
Two world wars did a number on Britain, but no doubt they were someone you didn't want to fuck with in the 19th century.
dreyrugr She was an epmire for a reason.
dreyrugr the ol' girl still has quite the military, its not like they faded into complete obscurity, messing with them would still be quite a bad idea...
theguy9208 Yeah, but if they had no support from NATO they wouldn't be able to fight off powers like China or Russia, they just don't have the numbers anymore.
dreyrugr on its own alone???? luxembourg would have its chance
dreyrugr You didn't really want to fuck with them through most of the 20th century either.
May I suggest, that you visit Fort Scratchley at Newcastle (on Sea, Australia). It has two naval guns (6 inches I believe), which they fire; it did have other guns, and 'disappearing' guns.
The 100-ton gun arrived in Malta from Woolwich on 10 September 1882. It remained at the dockyards for some months before being ferried to Rinella Bay. Over the next three months one hundred men from the Royal Artillery manhandled it to the battery. The gun entered service in January 1884. Practice firing was limited to one short every three months due to cost; each shell cost as much as the daily wage of 2600 soldiers. The gun fired for the last time on 5 May 1905 before being withdrawn from active service in 1906. It never saw action in 20 years of service.
As others have said the German WW2 railway gun called the Gustav was way bigger
Read the description.
Thatnewguy 15 Read the description
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'As others have said...'
So, why'd you say it?
That is what I said
How do you think a modern vessel would fare against a gun this big?
A gun like this would be very vulnerable to aircraft attack or missiles.
Theopontus I meant a sea vessel, not aircraft. But yes I do agree that this wouldn't do horribly much for aircraft.
Theopontus That isn't what he asked.
Eddie Gruver But I imagine, barring those (say, if it got a surprise round off)... Yeah, it'd probably sink a carrier with a direct hit. And it'd probably also make for a hell of a sub-sinker.
Sentinalh He didn't ask what kind of damage it would do a modern vessel. Aircraft carriers carry, well, aircraft and other modern military vessels are equipped with missiles.
Do you live in Malta? I visited there last year when I was 16 and loved it! I'm thinking of living there when I am older would it be wise for me to learn Maltese?
They call this the hundred ton gun, I believe its the largest cannon, being loaded from the muzzle end as opposed to the breech loading guns like the carl Gustav or the Yamamoto naval guns. The location at Rinella fort overlooks the yard where they stored the props for the film Troy, you can see one of the boats in this film. It must have been quite a haul for the soldiers to drag the thing up the steep hill to be installed at the gun platform
Coastal Artillerie with 45cm Kaliber, gets called the biggest Gun in the World Gerät40/Karl Mortar with 60cm Concrete Shells: Interesting Dora Railway Gun/Schwerer Gustav, with 80cm Kaliber: Am i a Joke to you?
One ton shell, the first time I heard I thought he said Wonton shell, hue
I like big guns and I cannot lie.
i can honestly say i have never had to use my genitalia in anger.
tyson cargill furious weiner for the win!
yarpen800 I was not aware of any good rape jokes.
yarpen800 pouhahahaha!!! you gave me an honest laugh
tyson cargill Best pick-up line: "Don't you think this cloth smells like chloroforme?"
I do not think there is a word to adequately express the repulsion and the self loathing at actually finding myself laughing.
The Biggest gun and biggest helmet all in one video.
Each of the 16" guns on the Iowa-class battleships weigh well over 103 tons. All four ships still exist as museums.
Joshua Janecek Each of the 16 inch breach loaded rifles they are not guns. This monster is a muzzle loaded smooth bore gun. Yes there is a difference.
3:52 *he's rappin'*
Lamao 😂
Cool gun but one or two horse archers could easily deal with it.
Adam Taylor you mean dolphin archers
Adam Taylor A katana could slice it in two.
In the siege of Sevastopol the Germans had the largest artillery there. They had 2 600mm mortars called Thor and Odin. They also had a railway gun called Dora which had a call at of 800mm. This little gun is tiny compacted to the shots fired at Sevastopol. Stand down little boys
Chech out the 20 inch Rodman guns in New York harbor in the war between the states 1860s. Made possible by his ability to cool the huge castings from within the tubes and his development of better propellant. Too clever.
From hes acsent i can say he is from walonia (french part of belgium) im belgian
imagine if this gun was operating in WW1 defending the city. would be badass.
so a 450mm shell in my point of view it could be used to kill God Zilla
Karl-Gerät had a 2 ton shell with a 600mm barrel. It could penetrate 8.2 ft (2.5 meters) of reinforced concrete 6.2 miles (10km) away. It was classed as a self-propelled siege mortar.
I do admit that guns is impressive but the Karl-Gerät is just a bit more interesting. You can find one sitting next to the Panzer VIII Maus.
In my hometown, Harstad in Norway there is a fortress with 4 guns that are bigger :-D
It also fired a 1 ton shell, . The bore was - 406 mm (16.0 in), with Length of barrel with rear piece - 21.5 m (71 ft), Weight of barrel - 158 metric tons (158,664 kg),
rate of fire: 2 shells a minute, Shell weight - standard explosive and armour-piercing shell 1,020-1,030 kg (2,250-2,270 lb) German type L/4.8 and L/4.4, Propellant weight - 2 part charge total weight 302 kg for ordinary shell and 312 kg for long range shell, Maximum range - Standard shell 42,800 m (42.8 km); long-range shell 56,000 m (56 km), Muzzle Velocity - Standard shell 810 m/s (2,700 ft/s); long-range shell 1,000 m/s (3,300 ft/s) Mountings - 2 gun turret Drh LC/34 (1,475 metric tons)
Dr. Zelenka? is that you?
Stargate!
Well this is a crossover I didn't expect.
"this polygonal shape!"
Me thinks the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the Iowa class battleships were slightly heavier, especially when including the breech. And yes, these guns still exist and have been fired last 20 years ago. They were also fired in anger. Plenty!
My grandfather use to use the gun in Gibraltar, but like you said he never fired in aggression
lindybeige: this is the BIGEST gun
german Schwerer Gustav: *angry nazi noises*
Also gustav: *explodes*
nyl0n it was destroyed by the nazi’s when they retreated, probably because they didn’t want the allies to get ideas...
@@Suo_kongque thats why I said "Also gustav: *explodes*"
Actaually:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40.6_cm_SK_C/34_gun
uss NJ and Wisconsin are still afloat-
16inch Iowa class BBS 2500 lb shell ?
*'when it was made' and 'biggest muzzle-loader'
+Lee i mean in the discription he also mentions yamoto class bbs and says- none are still afloat
17.72" > 16"
+Pekka Rastas 2500lbs>
That's the shell, not the gun.
What about the krupp k5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5
i cant seem to find the weight of the barrel but the whole thing weighs 200+ tons
beanhead159 Yes, much later railway guns were in their entirety heavier.
the gustav gun weighs 1350 tonnes and has 800mm shells
yeah but the Gustav gun does exist anymore but if it did it would dwarf this gun by about 7 times
and shells weight 4.8 tons.
krupp k5 is only 11+in sir,but has a longer range I've read it
The 16-inch 50-Cal Mk 7 is bigger (and was in actual use until recently). But that's definitely a ginormous muzzle loader.
Also the HE charges on those shells were probably 40-50 kg at most... nothing close to 1 ton of explosive.
Great video, great narration.
what about the german railway gun during WW2?
read the description
Does not exist anymore.
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i was wondering why the guy had an almost french accent in malta
will o whisp He's Belgian
koffieslikkersenior Belgian either speak some weird form of Dutch, or they speak a weird form of French. I think they should be forced to have to invent their own language.
Well for the Belgium people that's a bit complicated because their history had been contently getting conquested by other nations so they have many influences in speech French dutch English and German some of the popular languages spoken
Pieter Batenburg What's weird about Flemish and Wallon? Besides the fact that neither are languages or dialects.
will o whisp Conquested? Of the big five Clovis was from Tournai, Charlemagne from Herstal and Charles V from Ghent. Only Napoleon and Hitler are from elsewhere.
Ahm a "Murkin! A course I loves me sum guns!
well, it depends on what do you mean by "the largest". The 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 is smaller in caliber but much longer and heavier (121 ton), moreover, the AP Mark 8 shell weighted a little bit heavier (1,225 kg).
No one seems to have mentioned this, but these shells were *supersonic*, which is about as steampunk as a real steam era thing can get.
Description correction: Yamato, not Yamamoto.
"Washed 3 times a day" Excuse me good Sir, were they Arabs?