Carl;

All I know about the German 80 cm. gun was that it was designed to smash in the gun cupolas of the Maginot Line. From what I remember of that set of fortificatrions the minimum requirements had to be an ability to pierce at least five meters of reinforced concrete by plunging fire with a delayed action shell. The Germans used a concrete-filled shell, fired from that gun, to smash at the fixed fortifications around Sevastopol. There were also some huge self propelled mortars the Germans developed that were built to fulfill almost the same requirements.

So that is what little I remember. 

I am no artillery authority. I know less about the subject than almost anybody I read posting here. But I did find this;

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

The references attached to that article provided some good general knowledge for me when I went hunting out of curiousity after you piqued it..

From there the data tree branches out in multiple directions from each article or source cited..

I hope my little contribution helps.

Herald

 

Ian Hogg has details on the ammunition and other general numbers on the two guns (or three).   But neither he nor any of the web sites has any information on what the ammunition was susposed to accomplish.  Neither have I found yet any data on the Sevastopol forts attacked.  A Russian coorespondent was skeptical I'd find any of the latter.

Carl;

Carl;

Actually not a single link will open.  Just the usual error message that is standard issue with Strategy page links.  The one URL posted did.  Full URLs are seldom a problem.

Carl,
All I can say is sorry.
It seems to be a problem that I call Human Operator Error. Mine specifically
I will try one more time.

{http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/railgun/Content/Railwayguns/German/Dora%20index.htm}

{http://user.mc.net/hawk/gustav.htm}

{http://www.gdfcartophily.co.uk/item.php/IID/285251013}

{http://html2.free.fr/canons/dora.htm}

{http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/ordnanc2.html}

Frank



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!@#$%^&*() it!

Carl,
1. Use the properties window.
2. That is left click on the link and then right click on the line called properties then cut and paste only that  part of the strategy page address that contains the actual link URL that is appended to the total strategy page address.

The actual  complete URL when I type it in either using the HTML editor or when I try to use the  link editor just gives me dead links as the result.

Herald

Addendum.

I know you already know how to do that, but I just thought I would suggest it, if you hadn't thought of that as a way to recover a dead link for a cut and paste. Meanwhile I will continue to play with the forum, to see if I can get the silly thing to behave.

Herald