I heard the Gustav's shells were numbered, and had to be fired in order. Each subsequent shell was slightly wider than the previous, to compensate for the previous shell scraping off a bit of inside of the gun's barrel.
your thinking of the paris gun which needed a barrel change every 64 shots or something (im probably way off), ive never heard of that being the case with gustav but I aint a historian so mabye
Wait, so your telling me that the Turks didn't settle in Germany before the Germans and that Turkey in the 16th century was in fact neither ancient nor German? Wowza
@@hydrodoxxed2 Pretty much, it can mean King, Caesar was actually pretty much another term for Emperor, so close enough. Edit, As far as I know, it was a title like the German Kaisers,
Hi what's your name? MY NAME IS BOB, BOB RIVER! Hi, Bob. What do you do? I AM IN ARTILLERY! Thank you, Bob, what can we play for you today? ANYTHING! JUST PLAY REAL LOUD, OKAY?! -- Robin Williams: Good Morning Vietnam
You forgot two. The V2 cannon, which was meant to be a successor to Gustav and fire V2 rockets as artillery rounds, and the Nazi Space Laser. It was literally a gun made of over 4000 mirrors all floating in orbit. meant to reflect and channel the suns rays at an enemy from orbit. (It was never completed, but parts for it were made and preparations were underway by 1944)
Fun fact about Project Babylon; the metal tubes for the barrel were purchased from Sheffield Forgemasters, who were told that the pipes were to be used in a petrochemical project.
Litereally anyone could have. He was working with basically public enemy number one of the world to build a super gun, everyone had an interest on not letting that fucking happening. But I agree, I'd place bets on the CIA
He also worked for Israel, South Africa, the U.S Navy and NASA among others. He is alleged to have told both Mossad and CIA details of Saddams weapons projects so there are plenty of people who had a motive.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the super battleship Yamato's 18.1cm cannons, which hold the world record for the largest cannons ever mounted on a naval vessel. The turrets they were in weighed more than a heavy destroyer at over 3K tons!
Oh wow, I live nearby the place Gerald Bull was assassinated and I didn't even know. According to wikispooks it was in Avenue Francois Folie, which I walked before :')
The Yamato had some ridiculous guns on it too, 18 inch wide projectiles. 3 gun barrels per turret with 3 turrets. That sucker could chick some serious lead
Fun fact: For any Yugioh players/fans, the cards Super Dreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max (and Superior Dora) were made/named after the Gustav railway gun (and its counterpart) in the video.
You really should make a video on the German superweapon concepts. IIRC Nazi Germany had made lots of plans for absolutely gargantuan weapons that never got out of the design phase.
You seem to have missed the American 36 inch mortar of 1945 and the worlds largest airgun, the Zelinski dynamite gun of the 1890:s. What about Gerry Bulls earlier supergun prototypes, one is still in the U.S near the Canadian border.
Actually the largest muzzleloading cannon is the 100 ton Armstrong gun. Surviving examples exist on Gibraltar and Malta. Forgotten weapons have a video about it.
Dardanelles Gun was found in 1453, not 1464. It was prior to the siege of constantinople, to bring down byzantium walls, which small cannons couldn't even make a hole in
You might be right such big guns might not come back, but project Babylon actually wasn't the last attempt to build a space gun. In the 21st century Quicklaunch tried to complete funding for it as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicklaunch Which is basically a further evolution of various gun technologies to now make it even cheaper to do, combined with a clever idea on how to support the entire structure.
it could shoot 5 miles at a 98% and it could fire 8 miles, which is to the horizon, it fires 1 ton shells and it was a muzzle loader which they mentioned at the beginning of the video yet this was not included
I saw in a documentary that Gerald Bull's dream was to build a rocket that could fire a projectile to the moon. He was inspired by Verne's novel "From Earth to the Moon".
My grandfather told me that when the first shell of the Paris gun hit Paris, people thought it was a gaz accident, that blew out the building the shell actually landed on. After a few times of Paris getting hit, they understood what it was.
That first gun you mentioned was actually developed a bit earlier than 1464. It was made 12 years earlier and was used by the Ottomans in the siege of Constantinople in 1453. The problem with the Dardanelles gun was that it took 3 hours to reload.
You didn't mention the Little David, a U.S. built mortar with a 36" bore created in WW2. The projectile weighed in at 3,600 pounds. There are a couple of videos here on TH-cam about it.
Also worth noting, the largest guns ever mounted on a warship at sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy, with the Yamato class battleships' 18.1 inch, 460mm main guns, which could fire shells that weigh as much as a small family sedan.
i feel like the V3 cannons deserves an honorable mention. thats what the babylon was based on and they actually made a few test shots with those. and the way it uses multiple charges to propel one projectile is very interesting. the biggest one of the ones that was build was 140 meters. thats quite respectable.
A large, very long railegun may be the cheapest way for us to get things into orbit short of building a space elevator, we may even combine it with something called a space tether for even more even more efficiency
Not as big, but the atomic cannon deserves an honorable mention for the fission bomb warhead. Not a railroad gun, but a gun towed by a military semi (tractor/trailer) truck and longer than most semi trailers
What about the Russian gun that fires like 15 20-pound bullets a second? It was scrapped because it was designed to be mounted in a plane, but due to the insane amount of force it created, whenever the gun fired you would rapidly decelerate backwards.
I’m a bit disappointed that you never brought up battleships. I mean sure their individual guns aren’t going to be anywhere as destructive as the modern guns you mentioned in the video, but considering they carried at least 8-9 massive guns I’d they that would more than make up for it.
You are kind of wrong on one point. There is a bigger muzzle loader than the Tsar cannon. 100 tonne muzzle loader guns were built by the British. Two were put in Gibraltar, two in Malta. One is in fact still in Fort Rinella in Malta. Although it was never involved in combat, it was fired for practice.
Has anyone noticed how anything that has Tsar on its name is huge? Tsar Tank, had 9 meters in size,Tsar Bomba, Largest nuke to ever exist (The extra dip in Big Smoke's order.),the Tsar Cannon,as mentioned in the video.
That WWII canon reminds me of the mega weapon from season 4 of the Legend of Korea. We all knew Kuvira was a dictator, but apparently she didn't try to hide it in the end of her reign.
I heard the Gustav's shells were numbered, and had to be fired in order. Each subsequent shell was slightly wider than the previous, to compensate for the previous shell scraping off a bit of inside of the gun's barrel.
your thinking of the paris gun which needed a barrel change every 64 shots or something (im probably way off), ive never heard of that being the case with gustav but I aint a historian so mabye
Wroger Wroger are you a professional?
@Natalie Chambers naw, either some that knows about guns a bit with a large ego, or someone lying, and it’s probably the latter
I’m not saying you don’t know anything about guns, I’m just saying I doubt you know more then the German scientists who dedicated there life to it
place 3: ancient Germany
place 2: WW1 Germany
place 1: you can guess
Ancient Germany? Is Anatolia ancient Germany now?
VintageLJ All is Germany now.
Wait, so your telling me that the Turks didn't settle in Germany before the Germans and that Turkey in the 16th century was in fact neither ancient nor German? Wowza
Cullen O'Connell lol, it was just a copy of a random joke I found
Deutschland?
Place 3. Germany
Place 2. Germany
Place 1. Germany
german engineering, you know.
precision german engineering, hahahaha
+Manuel Rudolf haha we are just the best
You forgot Germany... man. I thought it was obvious. Germany should be on that list
Good guns and good soldiers to make up for shit allies and shit leaders.
You mean besides these guns?
*flexs arms*
talk about compensating for something lol
blakkwaltz Yup. Over compensating for a empty wallet. It's shameful
PaleGhost69 lmao
*flexes
PaleGhost69 You can't hack deeze guns
North Korea: "Challenge Accepted"
TheTayz haha
TheTayz
South Korea "Oh shit"
Mission failed, we'll get them next time.
*North Korea broke the border because they aim too high* *South Korea:CHECKMATE!*
Well range will be 0.00001mm
Does someone noticed that everything called "tsar" it's outrageous?
Like the tsar bomba
yeah because Tsar mean King or something like that in Russian
@denis Puljek i know
@@hydrodoxxed2 Царь(Tsar, Czar) means Caesar, but shortened.
@@user-pv1if5pe9o isn't Tsar like a title for kings in russia. Like Ivan IV The Terrible was a tsar
@@hydrodoxxed2 Pretty much, it can mean King, Caesar was actually pretty much another term for Emperor, so close enough.
Edit, As far as I know, it was a title like the German Kaisers,
all the other kids with the pumped up kicks....
someguywhosallafterbirdbootysscurr better run better run
I'm Having a Meme Time faster then my gun
AnkleDeepWater all the other kids with the pumped up kicks
Better run, better run, Outrun my gun
stop
Ah yes... thomas the tank engine's cousin, gustav the railway gun.
I like that there's a cow in every video. I don't even like cows, but I like your cow. He needs a name. Any suggestions?
Bob
Bull-shevik!
lord moo
that's considerably better than Bob
Justin Carnes bovine temptation
1:48 that sounds familiar... Tsar Bomba anyone?
Whats next Tsar Laser?
supervegito2277 tsar fried chips
supervegito2277 death tzar
Tsar antivaxxer
Tsar Baby Launcher
Anti Matter Tsar Bomb anyone?
Hi what's your name?
MY NAME IS BOB, BOB RIVER!
Hi, Bob. What do you do?
I AM IN ARTILLERY!
Thank you, Bob, what can we play for you today?
ANYTHING! JUST PLAY REAL LOUD, OKAY?!
-- Robin Williams: Good Morning Vietnam
Ben Barker best movie ever
- in the artillery? In which regiment?
- no... I am *into* the artillery
- what?
- inside if the cannon
Dora Dora The Destroya.
the biggest gun is the colibri
+Second Thought looks like you play games very often ;)
Yato Not even, the biggest gun is the Japanese 2.mm pinfire pistol!
*Kolibri
funniest shit i've seen
@@loganh6991 Wait that agar.io player?
Do you think they were compensating for something ;)
Lucas The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
oh for sure!!... haahaha!
Most Russians: so agressive they build unnecessarily massive objects that end up being useless (Tsar Bell, Tsar Cannon, Tsar Tank, Tsar Bomba)
Gavin Herrera tsar bomba useless? :DDD its was the most powerfull nuke ever made fool
>tsar bomba
>useless
Are you sure about that?
MrPanos2000 its useless
tsarcasm
Gavin Herrera because they don't invade countries like America does.
3:05 Nice Bf1 reference..
No gun is bigger than the BFG9000!
BFG stands for
BIG FUCKING GUN
Adragonwizard Master Or Big Friendly Giant.
I JUST FUCKING SAID IT ITS THE BIG FUCKING GUN
big friendly giant
-BFG9001-
in reality, you mean the BFG 50A. But no joke, it's a BIG FUCKING GUN
THEY SHALL NOT PASS
They SHELL not pass.
Get out.
Ok.
theawsomemax7901 Tell that to kanjiklub
ILLS NE PASSERONT PAS!!
it'd be funny if you included the death star
Death isn't a gun, it is a massive laser cannon intended to destroy planets not an artillery piece. I know but...... still
Just wait til the Germans get their own space force
You forgot two. The V2 cannon, which was meant to be a successor to Gustav and fire V2 rockets as artillery rounds, and the Nazi Space Laser. It was literally a gun made of over 4000 mirrors all floating in orbit. meant to reflect and channel the suns rays at an enemy from orbit. (It was never completed, but parts for it were made and preparations were underway by 1944)
Germany: makes largest gun in history that can fire shells over 15 miles.
USA: makes a portable nuclear version
*knock knock, its the united states*
AnarchEuro that is correct one of the scientists credited for the production of the v1 and v2 German rockets also helped with the Manhattan project
AnarchEuro your daaaaaaaaaamn right
Didn't some German scientists help with the Apollo rocket and etc?
Fun fact about Project Babylon; the metal tubes for the barrel were purchased from Sheffield Forgemasters, who were told that the pipes were to be used in a petrochemical project.
3:33
used to be my favourite show
Tank was my fav character
Allies: Germany please stop...
Germany: Haha Paris Gun 238mm, haha Sturmtiger 380mm, haha Karl-Gerat 600mm, haha Dora/Gustav 800mm.
Obviously the CIA who assassinated Bull.
Litereally anyone could have.
He was working with basically public enemy number one of the world to build a super gun, everyone had an interest on not letting that fucking happening. But I agree, I'd place bets on the CIA
He also worked for Israel, South Africa, the U.S Navy and NASA among others. He is alleged to have told both Mossad and CIA details of Saddams weapons projects so there are plenty of people who had a motive.
Vlad1m4ra public enemy number one? Can you explain?
Thanks.
More like Mossad.
If cars could run on milk, they'd be back in Normandie..
I'm surprised you didn't mention the super battleship Yamato's 18.1cm cannons, which hold the world record for the largest cannons ever mounted on a naval vessel. The turrets they were in weighed more than a heavy destroyer at over 3K tons!
What about the V3? (germany)
No mention of the warwolf? Upsetting.
Oh wow, I live nearby the place Gerald Bull was assassinated and I didn't even know. According to wikispooks it was in Avenue Francois Folie, which I walked before :')
Anyone think about how actually crazy these are, some of these seem straight out of a alternate reality fiction movie
As soon as you mentioned WWI I know something ridiculous would show up.
good video
but I have a suggestion..why don't you try biggest mysteries??
Ils ne passeront pas! Subtle battlefield reference
Second thought I got a police ad no really I swear (cuz they use guns)
Chris Jollie chill French Gandalf
None shall pass, translated
1:38 Sounds like he said Andrey Choke off XD
I'd like to see the Gustav Railway Gun in Battlefield 1
Its ww1...
it was used in WW2
Saeed Alhadhrami Bf1 is already super historicly incorrect
Liam Blylod that's not an excuse. Then why don't they just introduce Wonder Woman and ak74s into battlefield 1 then?
Liam Blylod It would be historically inaccurate. The Paris gun would work though.
The Yamato had some ridiculous guns on it too, 18 inch wide projectiles. 3 gun barrels per turret with 3 turrets. That sucker could chick some serious lead
1: my butt after eating taco bell or to much ice cream
Fun fact: For any Yugioh players/fans, the cards Super Dreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max (and Superior Dora) were made/named after the Gustav railway gun (and its counterpart) in the video.
...when you hear the british cannons go BOOM!
Vegeta wat
Carrot Slice i actually didn't expect a Hamilton reference to show up in this comment section.
Any hope of success is fleeting
32 thousand troops in new York harbor
You really should make a video on the German superweapon concepts. IIRC Nazi Germany had made lots of plans for absolutely gargantuan weapons that never got out of the design phase.
You seem to have missed the American 36 inch mortar of 1945 and the worlds largest airgun, the Zelinski dynamite gun of the 1890:s. What about Gerry Bulls earlier supergun prototypes, one is still in the U.S near the Canadian border.
Actually the largest muzzleloading cannon is the 100 ton Armstrong gun. Surviving examples exist on Gibraltar and Malta. Forgotten weapons have a video about it.
Holy Shzaaaaa! I've never been this early.
"I identify as an attack helicopter"
heard that somewhere...
Dardanelles Gun was found in 1453, not 1464. It was prior to the siege of constantinople, to bring down byzantium walls, which small cannons couldn't even make a hole in
YES THE GUSTAV MADE IT!! I LOVE THAT GUN!!! cuz... yaknow..... its just a big ol train car....
You might be right such big guns might not come back, but project Babylon actually wasn't the last attempt to build a space gun. In the 21st century Quicklaunch tried to complete funding for it as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicklaunch
Which is basically a further evolution of various gun technologies to now make it even cheaper to do, combined with a clever idea on how to support the entire structure.
What about the gun in Gibraltar
Brody Wilson thats a big one,but not as big as the ones shown in video.
By the way have you been in Gibraltar?
No but i've seen pictures of it. i heard it can shoot over the horizon
Brody Wilson I live in Spain and I never heard this haha
it could shoot 5 miles at a 98% and it could fire 8 miles, which is to the horizon, it fires 1 ton shells and it was a muzzle loader which they mentioned at the beginning of the video yet this was not included
Brody Wilson can I get the authentic link for this? Thanks.
I saw in a documentary that Gerald Bull's dream was to build a rocket that could fire a projectile to the moon. He was inspired by Verne's novel "From Earth to the Moon".
I dub the cow that seems to appear in every video, Bella.
Sign this petition by liking this comment, thank you.
My grandfather told me that when the first shell of the Paris gun hit Paris, people thought it was a gaz accident, that blew out the building the shell actually landed on. After a few times of Paris getting hit, they understood what it was.
The only time I'm not at school. :D
School starts in 5 minutes.... :(
Yeah, you forgot the .500 s&w magnum. Matt from demo ranch would approve
3:35 Thomas the Dank Engine is back! MLG
Commander : Behold ! Giant Canon !
Soldier : how are we gonna load it ?
My Bi-ceps should be #1 on this list
AyVePe why should he put something that doesn't exist?
AyVePe Tell that to kanjiklub
laughing my ass off the guy at 3:08 saying "they shall not pass"
Anyone seen my parents
no sorry man
Morty RICK RICK ARE YOU THERE nope sorry dude
That first gun you mentioned was actually developed a bit earlier than 1464. It was made 12 years earlier and was used by the Ottomans in the siege of Constantinople in 1453. The problem with the Dardanelles gun was that it took 3 hours to reload.
guns=good
You didn't mention the Little David, a U.S. built mortar with a 36" bore created in WW2. The projectile weighed in at 3,600 pounds. There are a couple of videos here on TH-cam about it.
Also worth noting, the largest guns ever mounted on a warship at sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy, with the Yamato class battleships' 18.1 inch, 460mm main guns, which could fire shells that weigh as much as a small family sedan.
Gosh your videos are possibly the best thing Ive found in my life... Ima bouta binge watch :D
5:30 this is the first time I have ever heard of someone with my last name, I’ve tried to find out information and the origin.
i feel like the V3 cannons deserves an honorable mention. thats what the babylon was based on and they actually made a few test shots with those. and the way it uses multiple charges to propel one projectile is very interesting. the biggest one of the ones that was build was 140 meters. thats quite respectable.
"And its doubtful such a big project will ever be attempted again"
You don't know how humanity works right?
Love you tho
For some reason, thumbnail triggered flashbacks of kitten cannon from addictinggames. The horrific combos that kitten went through.
There's a railway gun like the Gustav in lost Planet 2,but it kinda fires way more and I think it's smaller, it still runs on 2 tracks though.
3:11 nice reference lol
So is the Tsar cannon what inspired the Tsar bomb?
another very well made video, good job man! anything special planned for 200k subs?
you forgot the cannon in Fort Rinella
That bf1 they shall not pass dlc reference at 3:11
Huh, two of those are at Fort Nelson and I've seen them both. That surprises me
A large, very long railegun may be the cheapest way for us to get things into orbit short of building a space elevator, we may even combine it with something called a space tether for even more even more efficiency
You're so close to 200k subscribers :)
Not as big, but the atomic cannon deserves an honorable mention for the fission bomb warhead. Not a railroad gun, but a gun towed by a military semi (tractor/trailer) truck and longer than most semi trailers
What about the Russian gun that fires like 15 20-pound bullets a second? It was scrapped because it was designed to be mounted in a plane, but due to the insane amount of force it created, whenever the gun fired you would rapidly decelerate backwards.
Wonder if the V3 cannon deserves an honourable mention for length?
I’m a bit disappointed that you never brought up battleships. I mean sure their individual guns aren’t going to be anywhere as destructive as the modern guns you mentioned in the video, but considering they carried at least 8-9 massive guns I’d they that would more than make up for it.
You are kind of wrong on one point. There is a bigger muzzle loader than the Tsar cannon. 100 tonne muzzle loader guns were built by the British. Two were put in Gibraltar, two in Malta. One is in fact still in Fort Rinella in Malta. Although it was never involved in combat, it was fired for practice.
Has anyone noticed how anything that has Tsar on its name is huge?
Tsar Tank, had 9 meters in size,Tsar Bomba, Largest nuke to ever exist (The extra dip in Big Smoke's order.),the Tsar Cannon,as mentioned in the video.
Soviet Lucario glory greatest to senpai big smoke
That ztar cannon is just a deadly deadly confetti gun.
How about Urban's Bombard,the supercannon used at the 1463 Siege of Constantinople?
1 place must be like:
sorry for 2 ton orbit capable super weapon
also for being a worldwide enymie
the Gustav gun reminds me of the railway gun in lost planet 2
Can you make a video showing us how you create these videos? I am really interested in what software you use.
Thanks
You forget the 100 ton gun which was a naval gun. Theres still one in malta at Fort Rinella.
Didnt even mention the atomic annie. It's not the biggest artillery piece but it probably has one of the highest yeilds for its projectiles.
That WWII canon reminds me of the mega weapon from season 4 of the Legend of Korea. We all knew Kuvira was a dictator, but apparently she didn't try to hide it in the end of her reign.
Pretty sure it was inspired by one of these guns, at least.
its actually called “schwerer gustav“
“heavy gustav“
I knew the German rail cannon would be on this list, also HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBS
"largest muzzle loading cannon ever built"
The Gibraltar 100-ton gun would like a word.
Hmm seems like guns just got bigger and bigger until the invention of the missile.
Both guns where called Schwerer Gustav but the one used at Sevastopol was nicknamed Dora by the crew
There some great editing!!!
+Aider Kerimov Thanks!
Was expecting for the Tsar cannon to shoot tsar bombas
Nathan Beck which is also the main gun of the Tsar tank
I would build functional a full-scale replica of each one and stick them in a huge museum.
Huh, I was expecting to see the "Little David mortar". Its mortar shell calibre is like 914mm.
Gustav and Dora: Yay! We're in the first place.
Little David: Aherm... *enters the stage*
Gustav and Dora: Scheiße...
Do railguns and gauss cannons count as guns? Because they can be made ridiculously larger than this.
This is about guns that've ever been built