German 80cm Railway Gun "Dora"

This is the world's largest railway gun, developed by Germany during World War II for the purpose of capturing the Maginot Fortress in France.

The 40.6-caliber 80cm cannon was mounted on a total of eight carriages, which moved along four special rails.

While the main gun boasted tremendous power, it required approximately 5,000 personnel to operate, and assembly after transportation took several weeks.

It is on a different level to the 28cm railway gun we revealed earlier, but this Lora tends to be depicted as being much smaller than it actually is.

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第二次大戦時、フランス・マジノ要塞攻略を目的に開発されたドイツの

世界最大の列車砲です。

40.6口径80cmカノン砲を合計8台の台車に搭載、専用の4本のレールで移動、

その主砲は絶大な威力を誇る反面、その運用には約5000人もの人員を必要とされ、移動後の組み立てにも数週間単位の時間が必要とされました。

先に公開した28cm列車砲とは別次元の巨体なのですが、このLoraはどうも「普通の列車砲」のサイズになりがちです。「規格外」なんですよね、この列車砲は。