I love how the gun has camo on it like they are going to hide that thing

@sumvs5992

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@justaguywhoplaysfalloutsom1104

3 жыл бұрын

The paint also probably helps prevent erosion from the sea.

@earthy8684

3 жыл бұрын

what gun thought

@JohnMiller-zr8pl

2 жыл бұрын

Better that shinny reflective metal under the sun

@raphaelventura2997

2 жыл бұрын

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

2:38 top 5 rappers eminem was too scared to face.

@zukicappuccino7849

4 жыл бұрын

*information*

@CEOofPhoneCo

3 жыл бұрын

*Information*

@mmkavitha4404

3 жыл бұрын

*Information*

@imnotmlg4397

3 жыл бұрын

Information

@Ender-jl8dd

3 жыл бұрын

Talk about information

Ah Malta home to beautiful gardens, clearwater bays and a 100 ton gun.

@cantevengetdental2422

4 жыл бұрын

The gun is what keeps the bays clear.

@baddog5936

4 жыл бұрын

And some of the finest looking girls. Mmmm mmmm

@sethl.lazarus6642

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@sethl.lazarus6642

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@I_like_big_bombs

3 жыл бұрын

Malta has declared war upon your nation, may god save you now.

2:38 Love him or hate him, he's spittin' straight facts.

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."

@justinanderson267

7 жыл бұрын

Very Douglas Addams-y. I liked it too lol

@DieFlabbergast

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@dparsons343

6 жыл бұрын

That line was absolute gold

@anonymousdolan4862

5 жыл бұрын

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

@anonymousdolan4862

5 жыл бұрын

@Communist space bears Bloody correct

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.

@b8m8wuts46

7 жыл бұрын

Kuiper he didnt say that

@michaelyu4515

7 жыл бұрын

+B8m8 Wuts ...Yes he did. Read the description

@capitalistsmashingswjguy2936

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Yu one of those gun has survived if my sources arent b shit

@AdstarAPAD

7 жыл бұрын

The you should be able to give evidence of it today..

@capitalistsmashingswjguy2936

7 жыл бұрын

My source was post on youtube dont ask wich because i forgot

7 times the salary of a soldier? Bargain. A Tomahawk cruise missile costs $1.5m.

@cantevengetdental2422

4 жыл бұрын

So one of these bullets is only around 175k? That sounds reasonable considering what it's sinking...

@matiasnatale2808

4 жыл бұрын

The british were stingy

@carmenfarrugiabonello4605

4 жыл бұрын

average politicians salary !

@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@anonym3

3 жыл бұрын

B2 bomber:"hey buddy you see this little thing there?" SR-71:"sweet."

2:40 I only understood *"THE LITTEL HOLS"*

@jasonisbored6679

4 жыл бұрын

I think that’s “the little hose”

@bearynice4340

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it said lederhosen

What type of permit do you need to open carry that gun.

@quorthonsinferno5119

7 жыл бұрын

Stefan Frunza You don't need one, you just need to be the hulk, that's your permit

@itsabuscus1619

7 жыл бұрын

Kvarnholmen if you can lift it do you even need a gun??

@SirConto

7 жыл бұрын

If you walk around with it, I don't think anyone will complain to you about it.

@geckoo9190

7 жыл бұрын

A permit from a doctor I guess... and a psichologist.

@drops2cents260

7 жыл бұрын

+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? :-)

First!

@Daestos

9 жыл бұрын

Darn! The man himself beat me to it!

@damanorelse

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige It reminds me of the short film "Cannon Fodder", especially with the description that Belgian guy gives.

@TheBadbro12

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige What about the German "Schwerer Gustav"

@peridoodle2644

9 жыл бұрын

TheBadbro12 Did you not see the "surviving, by weight" note in the video? You may want to pay better attention.

@paulwalsh7134

9 жыл бұрын

***** I didn't see that note either. So thankyou.

"am I ordering an artillery strike or a meteor to go?"

2:06 Laughed myself to bits😂😂😂

I first read this as "Beigest gun in the world".

@Mantis47

9 жыл бұрын

Prinselijk Coder To be fair, as guns go, this one is pretty beige.

@Brian-bp5pe

7 жыл бұрын

Mantis47, it is beige, isn't it? Looks beige to me. BJP

@unclejoeoakland

7 жыл бұрын

Prinselijk Coder he should reload it in that name...

I wonder if this gun is banned in California?

@MrMakabar

9 жыл бұрын

Invisible Camel wasn't Gerald Bull playing around with his big gun in California? That little baby could should into space, literally.

@killercour

9 жыл бұрын

***** wut?

@nthedecent7717

9 жыл бұрын

Invisible Camel It's commiefornia, I wouldn't be surprised if big kitchen knives were banned.

@farmerboy916

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@billybobjoe4006

9 жыл бұрын

I dunno if they are regulated in California. But they sure as hell aren't in Nevada.

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.

@AverageAlien

3 жыл бұрын

@Ian Lundquist dumb

"You'd have to get to terms with not being an enemy ship for very much longer" I just love your humour so much

Got the biggest guns in the world right here, ladies

@VebbGames

9 жыл бұрын

***** Never thought id see a joke about that.

@stephanjacob17

9 жыл бұрын

FartMaster69 your butt cheeks?

@FartMaster69

8 жыл бұрын

***** pow pow

@davecrupel2817

7 жыл бұрын

FartMaster69 boom boom _firepower_

@gigimilano6757

7 жыл бұрын

thats not a gustav :/ only 1 was built and destroyed and thats in the vid is not the biggest gun.....

Someone please remix that guy spitting them fat instructions at 2:40

@Ridi_MB

7 жыл бұрын

Rap god.

@Thy_Guardian

5 жыл бұрын

Need to be a meme

@heyfellow1715

5 жыл бұрын

saw him irl so funny

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.

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

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

9 жыл бұрын

***** It doesn't exist any more.

@lbochtler

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige True, but it was still a bigger gun.

@petrolak

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige what about HARP project gun on Barbados? it's still there

@Akm72

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@lbochtler

9 жыл бұрын

unipetrolak good point its also a very massive gun, especially with the 410mm barrel diameter. and 40meter barrel length.

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?

@joshuahadams

8 жыл бұрын

He had a pair of chickens sewn into a hat, I guess.

@TeaAndBullets

8 жыл бұрын

+Josh Adams Thank you for that fantastic image! XD

@martinborgen

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@phreakazoith2237

5 жыл бұрын

"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."

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.

"beach-loaders such as those on the Yamamoto battleship" *breech *Yamato

I'd hate to drop one of those shells on my foot

@Sanman-ye9lu

8 жыл бұрын

Ouch

@charlesvonhabsburg3107

8 жыл бұрын

you wouldn't have a foot left! haha

@liamryderfelt9851

8 жыл бұрын

+J Winx would he have a foot right?

@FirstLast-fr4hb

8 жыл бұрын

Har har! I love you blokes.

@windowstaskmanager5349

6 жыл бұрын

First Last It shoots giant pommels at its targets

too bad they can't fire it :( would be a sight to behold

@TheNmd96

6 жыл бұрын

Commissar Evan I was there last week and they are in the process of getting the hydraulics in place for them to be able to be able to fire it again, they're hoping to be able to fire it again within the next few years!

@c4rma776

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@largol33t1

6 жыл бұрын

I would PAY to see a Schwerer Gustav railgun fired...

@puddingu120

6 жыл бұрын

sure. if you pay them for everything that's required to fire the gun

@owenmercieca1482

6 жыл бұрын

They do fire it but only once a year

3:52 *he's rappin'*

@frederickthegreat4098

3 жыл бұрын

Lamao 😂

Imagine having to cut a soldier’s wages for seven years just to fire this gun, 😂

Does a video exist of this thing being fired?

@geckoo9190

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@c4rma776

6 жыл бұрын

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."

@DarxusC

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKt3l7SGnLezXdo.html

@ironskyheart7749

3 жыл бұрын

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

"Don't climb the gun" Where is the fun in that?

@phreakazoith2237

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe trying to stop people from snapping Dr.Strangelove-selfies :P

Classic Clarkson quote, and today on TOP GUN !!!!

Love your humor Lindy!

Japanese battleship class you mentioned in the description was the Yamato class. Yamamoto an admiral in WWII.

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.

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@therealgsicht

9 жыл бұрын

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.

2:05 Oh My Lord "comin out of your wages" "Oh sarge :(" xD

@roberthudson1959

3 жыл бұрын

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.

gel test please

You forgot to mention that this video also features the World's Silliest Helmets

@donluchitti

9 жыл бұрын

Calgach V. Haha, reminded me of SpaceBalls

@caracaes

9 жыл бұрын

Calgach V. Also, The World's Best Rehearsed Discourse.

@bastardsofnazareth

9 жыл бұрын

Calgach V. I'm not sure about that... There'll always be this i.imgur.com/doSrFTd.jpg

@ThanksIhateyoutoo

9 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhhhhh shots fired!

@OzoneoceanMJM

9 жыл бұрын

Calgach V. British military pith helmets are silly? I think they're pretty stylish.

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

@Scaridian

9 жыл бұрын

***** Needs more dakka

@petrolak

9 жыл бұрын

***** no, they couldn't, Lindy was exaggerating why would they bother with rockets if you could reach space that easily

@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

9 жыл бұрын

unipetrolak Because it hurt me bum bum.

@ShivaX51

9 жыл бұрын

unipetrolak Well even *if* it could, you'd use rockets because you might want to be alive at the "in space" part.

@Schulzffw

9 жыл бұрын

***** And if they painted it red it would have fired faster

Lindybeige trying to take a nice selfie for the thumbnail just warms my heart

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.

Lindy - the Battleship is the Yamato, Yamamato was the Admiral

Antoine Blanchez might've just become one of my new favourite persons.

One ton shell, the first time I heard I thought he said Wonton shell, hue

The job of charging the cannon and "proudly" standing beside it whilst it was fired... was probably as glorious of a job, as "Chow Runner" in military boot camp. Hahaha. I digress. Thanks for the awesome video :-)

I couldn't understand a word of what Antoine said.

@robbert-janmerk6783

9 жыл бұрын

Iconoclasm_ It was something about "a hundred tons".

@krashd

9 жыл бұрын

Belgians really are unintelligible then, I always thought 'Allo 'Allo was making it up!

@d4rkhound388

8 жыл бұрын

Iconoclasm_ something about 180 degrees, cleaning barrel, 180 degrees more bullshit cleaning then BAM LOADED AND FIRED.

@MrSvenovitch

7 жыл бұрын

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?

@majorgear1021

3 ай бұрын

He was easier to understand than Biden.

What made this gun obsolete?

@WhiteWeaseI

9 жыл бұрын

Bedsheetrubber92 It was insanely expensive to fire and impractical.

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

Bedsheetrubber92 Breach-loaders with far higher rates of fire. Also, improvements in explosives. This thing used black powder.

@Draftsman17

9 жыл бұрын

Bedsheetrubber92 aircraft, and missiles. same things that put battleships out of service.

@FartMaster69

9 жыл бұрын

Mobile artillery

@deepbludreams

9 жыл бұрын

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.

I went there this week and can confirm the shells are farcically large. Really good tour too.

Not what I had in mind, I have to admit. But damn that was cool as hell, this is why Lindybeige is one of the best on youtube.

It sounds like you were channeling your inner Clarkson for a moment. "The biggest gun..... in the world."

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@Yunners

9 жыл бұрын

Having to sack yourself would be a bit of a blow to your channel too.

@ragimundvonwallat8961

9 жыл бұрын

Rob Watson you gave me an honest laugh good sir !

@censorduck

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige To be fair, I don't see your mucking up your own catering.

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.

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

Nix6p Yes, it was rifled. Bronze studs on the outside of the shells gripped the rifling.

@petrolak

9 жыл бұрын

Nix6p Paris gun was WWI, Schwerer Gustav and Dora were WWII

@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

9 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige Must have been hard to ram it down.

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!

Wow that thing has less than 1/4 MOA accuracy! Pretty freaking impressive,

That is a hell of a lot of steel.

@CashKingD

9 жыл бұрын

Huh, didn't expect to see you here.

@kurade1096

2 жыл бұрын

why are you of all people here?

I went to Fort Rinella earlier this year. I highly recommend it, the guides do a great job.

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.

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.

18" deviation at 4 miles? that .01 MOA accuracy ...

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.

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

Jaye Foster Yes, it was supersonic. You'd see the flash about 15 seconds before your ship's destruction.

"It is definitely the biggest ever muzzle-loader. There were other big guns, beach-loaders such as those on the Yamamoto battleship, or the German Schwerer Gustav railway gun, but these don't count because they have either been destroyed or sent to the bottom of the sea." US 406mm's would like a word. Also BL 18 still exists in storage today. So technically the biggest gun in the world is in the UK.

Few of these along the Kent coast would do us proud now.

Civilization DLC please.

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.

@KlaustheViking

6 жыл бұрын

7 tonne shells, the Schwerer Gustave fire. 80cm gun.

Great video, great narration.

Was the 'DO NOT CLIMB ON THE GUN' sign there before or after your arrival? Great videos! Thanks!

So what kind of bridge was that in the beginning? Intrigued at fortifications.

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

Snarky Knowitall Guthrie.

@andrewmillburg3167

9 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated.

I suppose the battleship Yamato's 18-inch guns technically still exist. Somewhere on the bottom of the ocean.

Forgotten Weapons just did a video on this exact gun and its really interesting to watch them both to compare I have a softer spot for Lindy TBH

There is a great, detailed 3D animated video of how this gun works, including it's steam engines and reloading systems here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6191s-fhbKZh6Q.html

I like big guns and I cannot lie.

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?

That is some very impressive accuracy.

Now THAT is a big iron.

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). "

@rosslynstone

7 жыл бұрын

A short ton is 2000lb

@artificersworkshop

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@rafamichalak2314

5 жыл бұрын

@@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...

@PeteCourtier

5 жыл бұрын

My dad can beat your dad in fight.

"this polygonal shape!"

Very entertaining, Thank You

Antoine my man! What an amazing information bombardment!

5:04 - No, no Lindybeige: if you want to copy Clarkson, you have to say it like this... "The biggest gun..... ....in the *world*!!"

@lindybeige

9 жыл бұрын

Demonflesh spawn And I'd need a grad filter wide angle lens shot, with white flash crossfade editing...

Cool gun but one or two horse archers could easily deal with it.

@ragimundvonwallat8961

9 жыл бұрын

Adam Taylor you mean dolphin archers

@censorduck

9 жыл бұрын

Adam Taylor A katana could slice it in two.

loving the Jeremy Clarkson pause at the start

The Italians had these same guns mounted on some of their battleships, which is why the British put them at Malta and Gibraltar.

"Do you like big guns" As an American, I am insulted that you would ask this... Of course I like big guns lol.

That's one amazing gun! Too bad we are not going to see that in action.

@alcapone9550

4 жыл бұрын

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Ahh my artillery mates and I always reminisce about beach loaders ... ramming all that sand down the mouths of cannons under the watchful eye of lifeguards.....

That's very impressive, I'm surprised I've never heard of it.

As others have said the German WW2 railway gun called the Gustav was way bigger

@leeboy26

7 жыл бұрын

Read the description.

@1Brick2Brick3

7 жыл бұрын

Thatnewguy 15 Read the description

@tankman66

7 жыл бұрын

make me

@flatlo

7 жыл бұрын

'As others have said...' So, why'd you say it?

@ColtonTroy

5 жыл бұрын

That is what I said

Ahm a "Murkin! A course I loves me sum guns!

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.

2:06 my favorite part in the video

"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

From hes acsent i can say he is from walonia (french part of belgium) im belgian

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.

When i was deployed in '03 i got to see both guns in Valletta and Gibraltar as both were ports of call for us.

Dr. Zelenka? is that you?

@bullseyedustrunescape5951

8 жыл бұрын

Stargate!

@London-qg5zf

5 жыл бұрын

Well this is a crossover I didn't expect.

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.

@oz_jones

9 жыл бұрын

dreyrugr She was an epmire for a reason.

@theguy9208

9 жыл бұрын

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...

@deepsouthredneck1

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@ragimundvonwallat8961

9 жыл бұрын

dreyrugr on its own alone???? luxembourg would have its chance

@ShivaX51

9 жыл бұрын

dreyrugr You didn't really want to fuck with them through most of the 20th century either.

The 1870 Caio Duilio and its sister ship, the Enrico Dandolo, carried FOUR of these guns on board, each...

My grandfather use to use the gun in Gibraltar, but like you said he never fired in aggression

Each of the 16" guns on the Iowa-class battleships weigh well over 103 tons. All four ships still exist as museums.

@brucescott2649

4 жыл бұрын

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.

imagine if this gun was operating in WW1 defending the city. would be badass.

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

*surviving by weight Yeah, there's a lot of definitions of 'big'

@caracaes

9 жыл бұрын

Tiberius Hrafn-Úlfur If you consider a Saturn V rocket a "gun", then the Saturn V rocket at Johnson Space Center is the biggest gun surviving. It should be a valid classification, as if it was used to bomb, it'd completely level several blocks of a city. A Saturn V rocket could put the gun shown in the video into orbit.

@koffieslikkersenior

9 жыл бұрын

Jonatas Silveira Baldo It could carry it in theory, but I don't think it would fit :)

@FredCheckers

9 жыл бұрын

Jonatas Silveira Baldo It was designed to carry a nuclear bomb. Many american space rockets were originally ICBMs. Though a gun usually denotes propellant eternal to the projectile, rather than connected like on a missile.