Schwerer Gustav Rail gun by AviatorGuy
A WWII German "Schwerer Gustav" Rail Gun. The two built,Gustav and Dora, fired 800mm guns that shot shells weighing seven tonnes up to 23 miles. Both were destroyed before the wars end.
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Comments
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slowpoke152 10th Jun 2011
Correction: This is a railway gun, not a railgun. And the lack of air in space would prevent heat escaping from the rails anyway, so it's not like it'd be any better, besides the lack of friction to slow it. -
randomcode9 10th Jun 2011
.... @DcBloodHound Prety Damn Close to absalute 0 and it loses velosity in the atmosphere.... no air in space so no friction. -
DCBloodHound 10th Jun 2011
actually a test was performed to see if a rail-gun can shoot to the moon.unfortunately the shell lost velocity after exiting the earth's atmosphere.a new test hasn't been performed because of how expensive it is to replace the rail on the rail-gun. BTW i voted up. i wonder if it would be possible to build a rail-gun in space so the the rail doesn't overheat.whats the temp in space anyway? -
Neospector 10th Jun 2011
@edwahjr: If we could, don't you think space travel might be a bit...you know EASIER? -
edwahjr 10th Jun 2011
the current rail gun design could if we wanted shoot a shell to the goddamn moon dont say we cant cuz we can -
randomcode9 10th Jun 2011no we couldnt....
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edwahjr 10th Jun 2011the rail guns we may or may not have now will shoot a shell at 1.5 miles per second... and we could shoot the moon with 1 so............
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randomcode9 10th Jun 2011Umm the E series was a concept series that had some built after the fall of the Riche
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AviatorGuy 9th Jun 2011
Ahh I see. Well I will look them up. -
zinzin 9th Jun 2011
those were the tanks that would have been build when nazi germany still existed around 1950