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Gavin-Phillips
11-05-2005, 07:05 PM
There used to be a site about the weapon created by a member of TankNet but Google gives "File 404 Page Not Found" message so I'm assuming the site has either been moved or taken down.

These huge guns really interest me (in the same way the super heavy mortars the Germans employed during WW2 do) but I have never heard of any further info about the development or employment of such heavy artillery.

Are there any such books or sites that cover the Model 1915 305mm howitzer? Google comes up with nothing :( Even some pictures would be helpful!

Thanks
Dani
11-05-2005, 07:21 PM
Picture so far:
http://russiannavy.net/photos/st_p_art_museum/pages/PICT0576.html
Gavin-Phillips
11-05-2005, 07:23 PM
Wow

Cheers Dani, that is actually the site I was looking for that I thought had been taken down!

Thanks!
Dani
11-05-2005, 07:25 PM
You're welcome!
Dani
11-05-2005, 07:32 PM
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/galleries/artillery/heavy/305mmM1915pic2.jpg

http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/galleries/artillery/heavy/305mmM1915_2.JPG
Gavin-Phillips
11-05-2005, 07:36 PM
:shock:

Imagine being employed in the task of moving one of those guns to some firing position. Would take more than a few horses to movie it, lol.

I bet the ammunition weighs a fair amount, let alone the artillery piece itself.
T-34s_Are_Cool
05-04-2006, 06:27 AM
Holy crap :shock: what a stupidly big cannon
Gavin-Phillips
05-04-2006, 12:18 PM
During WW2, the German's employed huge guns also, some alot larger than that WW1-vintage Russian example.

While during WW2, they were totally obsolete (except for shore based anti-ship defence possibly), in World War 1, it was more a fixed piece battlefield where two sides slogged it out against each other in a brute show of numbers and artillery.

With that in mind, these guns may well have proven effective, bunker or no bunker, I doubt much could protect against a direct hit fired from one of these beauties!

I wonder just how many men it took to fully serve one of those guns during combat?
Dani
05-04-2006, 05:07 PM
I wonder just how many men it took to fully serve one of those guns during combat?
June 1944, 305mm howitzer model 1915:
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/4396/305m15010oh.jpg

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/4120/305m15024cr.jpg

http://img290.imageshack.us/img290/2765/305m15031xj.jpg

(Pictures from http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/index.htm)