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Post by Klauss Van Der Hauff on Jan 8, 2009 4:43:55 GMT -5
Herr Minister, I have long friendship with the owner of Škoda-Beriga State Arms. Their arms are in grand German fashion of bold and frightening. I can arrange for a sale to the Reich consisting of around 10,000 points. I personally recommend the Siege Cannon. A massive 1,000mm howitzer capable of demolishing large buildings and pummeling city walls. Škoda-Beriga ArmsOOC: I technically own Škoda-Beriga, so the sale is guaranteed as long as the Cerulean King approves of the sale (Peter should, he would love to see this kind of trade). |
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Post by juergen on Jan 10, 2009 6:42:34 GMT -5
What about the specifications like :
. Weight - Length - Shell - Elevation - Traverse - Muzzle velocity - Effective range - railway-transported or by ……?
. Capacity of smashing modern fortifications
. Probably the Siege Cannon, 1,000mm howitzer is massive and a Bettungsgeschütz (bedding gun), mounted on a stationary carriage which is emplaced in a concrete foundation and take days to prepare. The monster weight certainly over 350 tons and needs to be transported in sections on 18 railway wagons (twelve for the gun itself and another six for the bedding). It is certainly impressive (it is able to fired shells weighing up to 2,500 kg), but his moving will be a logistical nightmare.
Mobility is the key word.
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Post by Klauss Van Der Hauff on Jan 10, 2009 7:19:42 GMT -5
All of the original super-cannons were an ungodly undertaking to transport. The diesel engines of the Siege Cannon move it at a very slow rate of speed. In essence, it is a battering ram on treads. While about as mobile as a car with octagonal wheels, it is still usable, akin to the Morser Karl.
TO answer said specifications:
Weight - 210 tons
Length from front to rear - 49 feet
Height from top to bottom - 24 feet
Elevation - 0 to 70 Degrees (the gun is capable of firing at a 0 degree angle for battering ram purposes)
Muzzle Velocity - 220 m/sec using a 2,000kg HE shell.
Min. Safe Distance w/ HE Shell - 900 feet
Max. Effective Range - 1.1 Miles (Using an HE shell, 1.1 miles can still be rather devastating)
The unit comes in two flavors - The gun, or self propelled. The gun takes time to assemble, again making it a nightmare to move along railroad lines then around 12-14 days to assemble with minimal crew (gun crew of 20 and 10 engineers all working). With 100 men, including firing crew and assembly engineers, you can expect it to be erected on a concrete structure within 5-7 days working a 14 hour day.
The second flavor is a ready made, self-propelled nightmare. Using 4 diesel engines, 2 to propel, 1 in reserve and 1 to drive the elevation gear system. All can be diverted to the drive-train to get the treads moving it at around 20mph. This is assuming cargo trucks are transporting personnel and ammunition.
While it may be a nightmare to move, either on rail or self-propelled, its ability to lob a High-Explosive shell weighing 2,000kg packed with high explosives is punishing. The outer casing of cast iron makes up for approx. 992kg of the shell weight (it is thin walled packed with explosivs using an impact fuse). Once a shell containing such a vast amount of TNT (1,008kg or well over 1 ton of TNT) impacts with a structure, the amount of devastation would be enormous.
OOC: this is text I had written in a text file. Around 2 months ago our forums were lost in a data-base purge brought on by bad hosting, the above stats were lost. On the new forums I was in a rush to get old data up I had left from a database back up, so I wasn't concerned with the details just then. Various micronational and real life events occupied my time, so I never got around to posting the details.
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