Railway guns
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15 cm SK (E) L/40 Kanone during exercise 1939
194 mm Mle 1870 93 TAZ Railway Artillery France 1940
20 cm Kanone (E) from 685 Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie on the Vögele turntable, France 1941
20,3 cm K (E) at Plouharnel Batterie, Le Begot, Bretagne 1944
20.3 cm K (E) captured in Auderville Laye, France 11 July 1944
21 cm K 12 (E) of Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie 701 on the coast of the English Channel
21 cm K 12 (E) of the Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie 701, France
24 cm "Theodor Bruno" Kanone german railway gun and crew June 1940
24 cm Kanone 558(f) Canon de 240 modèle 93/96 TAZ
24 cm Theodor Bruno gun breech
24 cm Theodor Bruno rail gun
24 cm Theodor Bruno rail gun
24 cm Theodor Bruno rail gun
274 mm Mle 1917 barrel
274 mm Mle 1917 french railway gun
274 mm Mle 1917 railway gun
274 mm Mle 1917 railway gun and locomotive
274 mm Mle 1917 Railway gun France
274 mm Mle 1917 Railway guns France
28 cm Bruno rail gun
28 cm Bruno rail gun
28 cm Bruno rail gun
28 cm Bruno rail gun
28 cm Eisenbahngeschutz Kanone L/42 "Schwere Bruno". Gun of the Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie 689. Winter camouflage, Eastern Front 1942
28 cm K5 (E) Sewastopol Crimea
28 cm K5 Anzio Express
28 cm K5 Anzio Express rail
28 cm Kanone 5 (Eisenbahn)
28 cm Kanone Eisenbahnlafette L/42 "Schwere Bruno" of the Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie 689, Germany 1940
28 cm Schwere Bruno German Heavy Railway Artillery
28 cm Schwere Bruno german railway gun
28 cm Schwere Bruno railway gun
28 cm Schwere Bruno railway gun France
28,5 cm K. 605 (E) i.L. 592 (f) Kulmbach Germany 19 April 1945
305 mm Mle 93-96
32 cm french railroad gun mle 1870
32 cm K 651(f) rail gun 1944
32 cm K 651(f) rail gun Italy 1944
32 cm Kanone (Eisenbahn) 651/1(f) rail gun
320 MM MLE 1870 30
320 mm mle 1917 railway gun
320 mm Mle 1970 93 railway gun
320mm Mle 1870-93 rail gun
320mm Mle 1870-93 rail gun 1940
340 mm L/60 Bourgoin gun
340 mm L/60 Bourgoin railway gun
340 mm Mle 1912 L/47 French railway gun
340 mm Mle 1912 L/47 railway gun
340 mm Mle 1912 railway artillery
340mm Mle 1912 Schneider Metz
370 mm modele 1875 79 railway gun
400 mm St. Chamond Mle 1915 1916 french railway howitzer
400 mm St. Chamond Mle 1915 1916 railway howitzer
400mm Mle 1915-16 rail howitzer
80 cm Kanone (E) Gustav-Gerät assembly
Belgian ex German Krupp 28cm SK L/40 Bruno railway gun 1940
Canon de 320 mm mle 1870/84
Captured 240 TAZ Modèle 1893-1896
Captured 27 cm K 592 (f) , ex-French Canon de 274 modèle 87/93 Glissement
Captured 27 cm K 592 f , ex-French Canon de 274 modèle 87/93 Glissement
Captured 27,4cm K(E) 592(f) named "Bruno" of the Eisenbahn Artillerie Batterie 692
Captured 27,4cm K(E) 592(f) named "Bruno" of the Eisenbahn Artillerie Batterie 692 at La Coucourde, France 1944
captured 274 mm Mle 1917 railway gun
captured 274 mm Mle 1917 railway gun 1940
Captured 340mm Mle 1912 Schneider French railway gun
Captured 38 cm Siegfried K (E) named "Gneisenau" of the Eisenbahn-Batterie 698. Montélimar pocket August 1944
Captured 38cm K(E) Siegfried gun named "Gneisenau" of the Eisenbahn-Batterie 698. Montélimar pocket, August 1944
Captured 38cm K(E) Siegfried railway gun named "Gneisenau" of the Eisenbahn-Batterie 698. Montélimar pocket August 1944
Captured ex-French 27,4 cm K 592(f); 274mm Gl. modèle 17
Captured experimental gun 340 mm L/60 Bourgoin 2
Captured french railway gun
Captured K5 "Leopold" 919 219 of the 712. Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie. Civitavecchia June 1944
Captured K5 German Anzio Annie railway gun
Captured St Chamond 400 mm Mle 1915/1916 howitzer 2
Captured St Chamond 400mm Mle 1915/1916 howitzer
Eisenbahngeschutz 28 cm K5(E) eastern front railway gun
Eisenbahngeschutz 28 cm Schwere Bruno railway gun France
ex French 27,4 cm K(E) 592 (f) railway gun with number 929323 and nickname Casar
ex French 27,4 cm K(E) 592(f) German Railroad Gun Captured at Rentwertshausen 1945
ex French 37 cm K(E) 714(f) 370 mm Modele 1875 79 German Railroad Gun
ex French 370 mm Modele 1875 79 German Railroad Gun
ex french railway gun crew 1941
French 274 mm Mle 87-93 rail gun
French 320 mm Mle 1870 30 railway gun
French 320 mm Mle 1870 30 railway gun
French 320mm Mle 1870 rail gun
French 340 mm Mle 1912 Railway Gun Belfort France
French rail gun
french rail gun 320 mm modele 1870-81 glissement Schneider
French railroad gun
French Railroad Gun 320 mm Mle 1917 named Joyeux
French railway guns 340mm Mle 1912 Schneider and 320mm Mle 1870/84
French railway guns 340mm Mle 1912 Schneider and 320mm Mle 1870/84 1940
German 15 cm Kanone in Eisenbahnlafette of the Artillerie-Batterie 655 (E) in Belgium
German 20,3 cm L/60 Eisenbahngeschutz
German 24 cm in action against British Convoy 1940
German 24cm Theodor rail gun
German 24cm Theodor rail gun
German 24cm Theodor rail gun
German 27,4 cm Railroad Gun Artillery France
german 28 cm Eisenbahngeschutz railway gun
German 28 cm K5 (E) railway gun Sevastopol Crimea eastern front
German 28 cm K5 Eisenbahngeschutz of the Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie 686. Railway gun in action, winter camouflage. Leningrad 1942-1943.
German 280 mm railway gun
German 28cm BRUNO L/40 rail gun
German 340 mm Model M12 - 34 cm K.-Gl-(E) 673 (f) rail gun
German Eisenbahngeschutz Leningrad area
German rail gun 20.3 cm K (E) gun
German rail gun 20.3 cm Kanone (E)
German rail gun 20.3 cm Kanone (E)
German Railroad Artillery
German Railway Artillery Atlantikwall 1944
German railway gun 17cm SK (E) L/40
german railway gun in action 1943
German soldier fires 28 cm Kanone (Eisenbahn) Kurze Bruno 1940
German troops firing railway gun over the English Channel 1940
German troops manning captured ex-French 370mm modèle 1915 howitzer (E) 751(f) Warsaw, December 1944
gun breech
Italian Battery in Action with 194mm railway gun at Cassino 1944
Italian gun Crew with 194 mm railway gun on Cassino Front 1944
K5 German rail gun
K5 Leopold captured by the Allies in Citavecchia 1944
K5 near Leningrad
K5 rail gun
K5 rail gun
K5 rail gun
K5 rail gun near Leningrad
K5(E) "Anzio Annie" of the 712. Eisenbahn-Artillerie-Batterie. Crew cleaning the gun barrel, March 1944
Krupp 28 cm Kanone 5 (E) in action
Krupp 28 cm Kanone 5 (E) ready to open fire
Later 28.5 cm Kanone (Eisenbahn) 605(f) rail gun
Later 34 cm Kanone (Eisenbahn) in Gleitlafette 673(f)
Later German 32cm K(E) 657(f)
Later German 37cm H(E) 714(f)
Loading shell into a 24 cm Theodor rail gun
rail gun 24 cm Kanone (E) 558 (f)
rail gun 274mm
rail gun ex-French Canon de 340 modèle 1912 à berceau
rail gun Kurze Bruno 28 cm
rail gun Kurze Bruno 28cm
Rail gun Kurze Bruno and Vogele turntable
rail gun Kurze Bruno in action
rail gun Kurze Bruno on Voegele Turntable for Railroad Guns
rail gun Kurze Bruno on Vogele Turntable for Railroad Guns
railway gun 340 mm St. Chamond Mle 1912
railway gun barrel
Railway gun K5 Cross-channel fire
Schneider 320 mm Mle 1870-93 1945 railway gun Furth 1945
Schwere Bruno in Belgium 1941
Schwerer Bruno fires over English Channel 1940
Schwerer Gustav 80cm K(E) Dora rail gun, 1942
U.S. 7th Army Troops, 3rd Armored Division with captured 27,4cm K(E) 592(f). March 1945 near Cologne
Wehrmacht Troops with Captured French 320 mm Railway Artillery
German and captured railway guns in World War II. Railway guns were placed on a special railway platform enabling it to fire. Lesser works were often placed in rotating turrets, and could be part of armored trains. Railway guns in the strict sense were large-caliber independent units (from 200 mm to 800 mm) used as a long range artillery siege. Many guns were built as mounted on the works of sized caliber naval artillery. Just as in the case of armored trains, the dynamic growth of aviation in the 30s of the twentieth century was the beginning of the end use of railway guns. One of the most famous railway guns was called “Paris gun” used to fire the capital of France in 1918. The heaviest railway gun of the First World War was the French 520 mm howitzer Schneider, the largest railway gun in general was a German construction used during the Second World War Dora with a caliber of 800 mm. Although the giant railway guns could not realistically weigh on the war, their ability to break down into dust massive fortifications and devastating psychological impact on the enemy posed major advantage.