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The 42 centimetre kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918.
They were the largest pieces of artillery used during the war by barrel length, and qualify under the (later) formal definition of large-calibre artillery. Also called the " Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz " (" Kaiser Wilhelm Gun"), they were often confused with Big Bertha , the German howitzer used against Belgian forts in the Battle of Liège in ...
Yes. Kind of. Romanych & Rupp say that their last use in 1915 was in Serbia, and then moves all the big guns back to the West for Verdun. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠ 06:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC) "from 2011 to 2019" - both of the sources predate 2019 so that ending date isn't supported by the cites; Cut. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠ 18:39, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm). This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being practically ...
The howitzer (/ ˈ h aʊ. ɪ t s ər /) is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.It is capable of both low angle fire like a field gun and high angle fire like a mortar, given the distinction between low and high angle fire breaks at 45 degrees or 1600 mils (NATO).
Big Bertha (lunar sample), the third largest lunar rock collected by the Apollo program during Apollo 14; Bertha Heyman, a.k.a. "Big Bertha", a 19th-century criminal; Big Bertha (cow), a cow that broke two Guinness World Records, for being both the oldest and having the most offspring; Big Bertha (golf club), a line of golf clubs from Callaway Golf
The 42 cm kurze Marinekanone L/12, or Gamma-Gerät ("Gamma Device"), was a German siege gun built by Krupp.The Gamma-Gerät ' s barrel diameter was 42 cm (17 in), making it one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded.
Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun. The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or rocket, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 76.2 mm (3.00 in) and above". [1]