There are guns, there are really big guns, and then there's the Schwerer Gustav. Before we dive into the specifics of this bigger-than-life gun, we need to know why Hitler wanted it built. Other than ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Due to complications in building such a massive gun, the Schwerer Gustav was not used against the Maginot Line, though it did see action against the Red Army. Leading ...

NAZIS once built the world’s biggest gun that weighed 1,490 tons and fired 12ft shells as they prepared to wreak havoc in France. Dubbed “Miracle weapon” by the Germans, the Schwerer Gustav railway ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Just two of the guns were manufactured. Post-war, the Schwerer Gustav was dismantled and destroyed to prevent it from falling into Allied hands. The other identical ...

Schwerer Gustav, or the “Heavy Gustav,” was the largest and most powerful gun used in World War II. It was initially commissioned by Hitler to destroy the French Maginot Line; however, it was actually ...

There are many long-lived military vehicles. Build anything cheap enough and simple enough, and some air force will keep it in use for decades. It takes something special to be magnificently short ...

There's no denying that Adolf Hitler had some massive ambitions during his time as Germany's Chancellor, and this often resulted in the construction of some outlandish machines under the Wunderwaffe ...

Read on to know how the mammoth piece of artillery was used to destroy a Soviet city NAZIS once built the world’s biggest gun that weighed 1,490 tons and fired 12ft shells as they prepared to wreak ...