Bang! ....Are those the biggest military guns that have ever been used in combat?
It must be expensive to shoot these..... shells are a few tons each and smokeless powder is a few hundred pounds a pop.... wow, that could add up fast.
No during WW II the Japanese had two battleships with 18 inch guns but there use was limited, they both ventured in at the end of the Leyte Gulf landing hoping to catch the troops and equipment on the beaches but we foiled those plans and I believe both were sunk the Yamato was one and the Musashi was the other.
Bang! ....Are those the biggest military guns that have ever been used in combat?
It must be expensive to shoot these..... shells are a few tons each and smokeless powder is a few hundred pounds a pop.... wow, that could add up fast.
As TomADC mentioned, they were not the largest naval guns of their time, nor were they the largest artillery pieces to have been fielded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav Gustav and Dora. 80cm guns, (~31.5 inches) 7 ton projectile.
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