From the moment he prepared for World War II, Führer Hitler began to have a headache over the French Maginot Line. You know, this Maginot Line, but France lasted 9 years and cost 5 billion francs to build.
The Maginot Line, built entirely of reinforced concrete, is self-evident. Moreover, all kinds of artillery, fortresses, trenches and other defensive facilities in the defensive line have everything, even the hospital, power station French side is the same, to match.
How powerful is such a Maginot Line to conquer! So it's no wonder that even Hitler had a headache about the Maginot Line!
Although the Maginot Line was strong, Hitler's determination to start a war was even more so. In Hitler's eyes, the Maginot Line was not impregnable. All that's need to develop a giant cannon that can destroy the Maginot Line.
Therefore, Hitler ordered the development of a super cannon, which was built according to the standard that it must be able to penetrate a concrete wall 7 meters thick or a steel plate 1 meter thick. And the range should be more than 32 kilometers, otherwise the Germans may face French artillery fire.
Now, in Hitler's eyes, fighting a war is actually a simple thing for soldiers to block, water to cover, you have a strong defense line, I will develop strong weapons. But such a super cannon, developed, is far from being as simple as imagined.
Krupp, the world's most powerful artillery manufacturer at the time, was given the task. In order to be able to fulfill the Führer's war dreams, Krupp spent countless manpower, powerlessness, financial resources, spent 7 years, cost 7 million marks, and finally built the super cannon that Hitler wanted. And that cannon is Gustav.
How mad was the Gustav cannon?
The caliber of ordinary artillery is basically between 20mm-200mm, which can exceed 100mm, even if it is a large artillery. But this German Gustav gun has a caliber of 800 mm, which is simply a crushing presence for other guns?
Because the artillery is too large, its shells of course also need to be specially made, it is said that the shells it fires are up to 3.6 meters long and weigh more than 7 tons, so its power can be made up by everyone.
Can gustav super cannons, which are so powerful and "perverted", be able to win against the Maginot line of the French nation?
In fact, Gustav cannons had no chance to play against the Maginot Line, because when it began to dominate the world, the French had already surrendered.
The German military was also sullen and unhappy about this, holding a stomach full of energy, saving a super weapon, wanting to give France a heavy punch, did not expect to suddenly hit the cotton ball, Germany depressed is actually understandable.