Railway guns were used more in WWI than II, but they were certainly still around (though not really used there); the Schwerer Gustav was just an extreme example of said guns.
It's not a train armed with a main gun, it's a gun mounted on a train carriage - basically same as any self-propelled artillery today, just that it was so massive that it could only be moved on rails.
Is that...i cant remember but it looks like it was use to fire nuke or something...can somebody explain a train armed with a main gun
Looks like a Schwerer Gustav, a German WWII era superheavy siege gun (caliber 80cm/31 inches, could fire 5 ton HE shells or 7 ton AP shells) that was originally meant to be used to against French defenses at Maginot Line but because France fell before it could be completed its first action was against the soviet fortress city Sevastopol.
Rule of thumb: The Karl Gerat is a railway siege mortar. Short barrel and all that, yeah?
Though if you've seen Girls und Panzer der Film, you'll definitely know it's the Karl Gerat when you see it.
The Karl Geralt is tracked, not a railway gun, which meant they were used far more often due to their 'greater mobility' (Not like that's much of an improvement given how big and heavy they were and their lack of armor making them vulnerable to airstrikes especially late war).
It's more the big brother to the Sturmpanzer and other German heavy assault guns in concept than the Gustav's little brother.
silly Nagamon, Japan doesn't have a railway to\from the continent, so the big gun has to stay.
Unless Russians build a bridge over the ocean. Heard they planned to connect Sakhalin with Hokkaido like that :v
If it can fit on train tracks, you can fit it on a barge. You can fit anything that can move on any other form of locomotion on a ship. Ships are the most economical way to move any sort of large object, so long as sea routes are viable paths to a destination. This includes shipping other ships.
But were will they take the train to? Across Russia to say Port Arthur, or across I guess India to Singapore?
How much of that track is standardized all the way across two continents? To get that monster all the way to a relatively safe port so they can ship it to Japan.
You know. Seeing Gustav and the fact Ido mentioned Witches in last strip makes me thinking they will meet with Neuroi (Or Hikari) somewhere in their journey back.
Looks like a Schwerer Gustav, a German WWII era superheavy siege gun (caliber 80cm/31 inches, could fire 5 ton HE shells or 7 ton AP shells) that was originally meant to be used to against French defenses at Maginot Line but because France fell before it could be completed its first action was against the soviet fortress city Sevastopol.
Paris East StationWhoaaaa!
Awesoooome!!I certainly splurged on the souvenirs!Really, we're not playing tourist here.Says the one who bought some herself too, Nachi.Brand goods are so cheap!No, that's out of the question...Could you please not bring that vulgar monstrosity into Paris?If we take the railway, then we'll make it in time for saury fishing!All us Germans got that there as a souvenir too.Not like we go to Europe often, now do we~It's a bit odd to be thinking that our fleet would be saury-fishing, though...Follow my instructiooooons!All the group leaaaaders!
Do a roll call, pleaaase!
