before computer simulations, innovation was driven forward by 'build it and see what happens' projects like that
railway guns for a failure but i have no doubt a lot of lessons were learned from it
they needed a giant gun to crack open the maginot line
by the time the war started, they already had two of them
french stupidity meant they never had to use the guns in the first place, so they were used to fight in russia instead
they did prove useful a few times, like knocking out soviet ammo dumps at sevastopol
but they were solutions looking for problems, and their useage was more because they were already built rather than some innate need to crush fortifications
especially since the the next large offensive at kursk didnt involve giant underground fortifications but dispersed firing positions dug out of earth and having to lay tracks down to deploy a giant gun ahead of time would have revealed their intentions
>but they were solutions looking for problems
Sums up german engineering to this day.
Add onto it propagandamarketing and you can see why people unironically believe "german engineering = good"
meme
how'd they move this thing around? is it normal to have 2 tracks at a standard distance apart from each other or did they have to disassemble it to move it
wonder why they never assembled it directly at pidorsburgs siege line from the get go. It would have had a cool two to three years of pummeling away the city ripe with targets. Sevastopol seems so pointless in hindsight as the thing was never going to survive for long being completely cut off so deep behind german lines
>Weaponize this.
Kek, would be funny because it's absolutely massive, that thing weighs roughly as much as 10 Gustavs or a whole Graf Spee pocket battleship
no it was penile envy
We should build this again, just for fun.
I like our version, it ended up better.
before computer simulations, innovation was driven forward by 'build it and see what happens' projects like that
railway guns for a failure but i have no doubt a lot of lessons were learned from it
Germany, so yes.
It was a diagnosis of profound autism.
Yes.
shore bombardment but for land isnt that far out of an idea given the times IMHO tbqh
Terminal Autismos
Absolutely.
>"Did you set the brakes?"
>"...Did I-"
>"Fire!"
>Pew pew train scoots back and away from recoil
it was before large bunker buster bombs dropped by planes were a thing
Bigger machines means you can pile up more hot German twinks inside
are the men on the train enormous or is that tank tiny?
they needed a giant gun to crack open the maginot line
by the time the war started, they already had two of them
french stupidity meant they never had to use the guns in the first place, so they were used to fight in russia instead
they did prove useful a few times, like knocking out soviet ammo dumps at sevastopol
but they were solutions looking for problems, and their useage was more because they were already built rather than some innate need to crush fortifications
especially since the the next large offensive at kursk didnt involve giant underground fortifications but dispersed firing positions dug out of earth and having to lay tracks down to deploy a giant gun ahead of time would have revealed their intentions
>but they were solutions looking for problems
Sums up german engineering to this day.
Add onto it propagandamarketing and you can see why people unironically believe "german engineering = good"
meme
how'd they move this thing around? is it normal to have 2 tracks at a standard distance apart from each other or did they have to disassemble it to move it
They built extra tracks during months, used the gun for like 3 days and that's all. 2 times iirc and the war was over.
wonder why they never assembled it directly at pidorsburgs siege line from the get go. It would have had a cool two to three years of pummeling away the city ripe with targets. Sevastopol seems so pointless in hindsight as the thing was never going to survive for long being completely cut off so deep behind german lines
>tfw you basedfaced when one of these showed up in Gaogaigar because you knew what it was before they launched into the explanation for it
their autism is present to this day
Weaponize this.
>Armored crew cab
Done
Sure
>was it autism?
yes,
was it awesome?
also yes
>Weaponize this.
Kek, would be funny because it's absolutely massive, that thing weighs roughly as much as 10 Gustavs or a whole Graf Spee pocket battleship
>Take this thing
>Mount it on a similarly huge cargo ship
>Use it to dig the Panama Canal wider/deeper and/or dig a whole new bigger Panama Canal
Yes
Seien Sie bitte geduldig, ich habe Autismus.
It's always autism
how did they even aim it? build tracks out in the direction that you wanted to fire at? doesn't seem very practical
you already need to lay miles of track to get it in range, at the end you just put a circle and it can fire in any direction. shrimple as that