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So you think you got big guns? Meet Thor and Odin, WWII heavy guns. Did I say heavy, if you need to lay rail line to get your gun in place, that is pretty damn big. Many have advocated that they were over kill and a waste of a lot of manpower. Considering you need a few SGM Matthew Quick CPT Aaron Kletzing SGT (Join to see) PFC Kyle Corcoran 1LT Sandy Annala 1SG (Join to see) 1LT (Join to see) 1SG John Mohon thousand men to lay the rail line, load and fire the thing. The breach on Thor is impressive. I can't recall seeing any other mortar/artillery piece with that style of breech that large.
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From a technicality point of view, airpower was not "precision" yet. Remember the big hoo-hah made by the USAAC when the first B-17's intercepted the liner Roma at sea. German propaganda also made great deals about Stuka's and their invincibility. Artillery on the other hand, was a strategic weapon pre-1935. Even as late as 1942, artillery was the ultimate anti-shipping weapon for coastal defense and AAA. Against a "basic", non-technical enemy like Russia, large scale artillery like mortars and rail guns were effective. Once Russia figured out how to fight, they became white elephants.
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CW3 Kevin Storm
Agree to disagree, when you adopt a "blitzkrieg style of warfare," centralized around speed and maneuver, big heavy rail guns are not in the equation, you are now back to the basis of trench warfare.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Thats correct - the Blitzkrieg ran out in Russia. The Germans were forced to fight like everyone else.
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Couldn't keep up with the panzers. Saw some action in the Ukraine. The Soviet and German rails were different gauges so the tracks had to be relaid for these monsters to go anywhere.
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