Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical.

Discover the story of Schwerer Gustav, the massive railway gun built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Learn how it was engineered and why it remains a symbol of extreme military ambition.

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.

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.

The Schwerer Gustav was transportable only by rail and had to be driven to battlefields where it was needed along two railway tracks that ran in parallel. Although the gun’s elevation could be ...

The Nazis called the thing Schwerer Gustav, and here's what I wrote about the thing, 24 feet wide, 38 feet tall, 155 feet long, and attached to another mile's-worth of train for transportation ...

While Hitler loved things to be excessively large, nothing compares to the Schwerer Gustav gun, the largest gun ever used in combat. Development began in the late 1930s, with the creation of a ...

Dubbed "Miracle weapon" by the Germans, the Schwerer Gustav railway gun was the largest artillery piece that was deployed in World War Two. From the ground, the gun looked like a four-storey ...