But as the war continues, the French are not stupid, and they will also learn the ...... of war in the war. What should I do if the number www.biquge.info of large-caliber guns is insufficient? The French decisively chose to throw the naval guns to the army, and the French did one thing better than the Germans, that is, the artillery mobility is very good, this mobility has two aspects, on the one hand, the weight control of the artillery is better, basically belongs to that kind, maybe my performance is not as good as you, but my gun weight and deployment flexibility are stronger than yours. And on the other hand, there is the self-propelling of artillery.

How about German large-caliber train guns? Actually, it's not bad, Krupp's technology is still trustworthy. But Krupp itself doesn't care about the way the artillery maneuvers! The French did a good job in the design of the gun carriage, although it cannot be said that it stabilized Germany, but the new heavy guns of various calibers added by the French really put a lot of pressure on the Germans! And in some respects, the French still have a great advantage.

Since the prince crossed, he has specially summarized the data of large-caliber long-range artillery in Britain, France and Germany, and the result is that, on the whole, Britain and France are superior in the type and mobility of large-caliber long-range cannons. This prince doesn't know!

Was the German 420mm Big Bertha gun remarkable? Ever heard of the 520mm heavy train guns of the French? The combat weight is 263 tons, and the length of the body is 11.9 meters. There are two types of shells used, one is a light shell of 1270 kg, and the other is a heavy shell of 1640 kg, which is about twice as many shells as the artillery shells of the Great Bertha!

This gun is placed on two 8-axle train gun mounts, and because of the more advanced auxiliary loading equipment, the 520mm heavy howitzer can fire at a rate of 6 minutes! The muzzle velocity of the muzzle is 450 to 500 meters, and the shell can shoot a range of 14.7 to 17 kilometers! The Frenchman's 520mm heavy howitzer is crushing in terms of projection, power per shot and range!

In the Battle of Verdun, the French also used another 400mm heavy gun, this gun is smaller than the M1916 520mm heavy gun, but the performance is also excellent, the total combat weight is 140 tons, and two shells can also be used, the light bullet weight is 641kg, the muzzle velocity is 530 meters per second, and the firing range is about 16 kilometers. And the heavy bullet weighs 900kg. The muzzle velocity is 465 meters per second. The firing range is about 15 kilometers. And also because of the advantages of the chassis, the rate of fire of this train gun reached 1 round in three minutes!

And if the prince remembers correctly, the rate of fire of the German Great Bertha artillery was up and down ...... in 20 minutes. It must be said that the French had a great advantage in the rapid reloading of large-caliber guns. In the final stages of the Battle of Verdun, the French recaptured the fortress of Douaumont with the help of two M1916 400mm heavy guns!

Before the appearance of the above two super-heavy guns, the French also had a large-caliber train gun, the 370mm heavy gun known as the Schneider M1915, which could be called the most powerful train gun at the time of its appearance, and he had two models, namely the 127.5-ton Batino and the 134-ton Klossau.

The gun can fire 516 kg shells at a speed of 535 meters per second, and 710 kg shells at a speed of 475 meters per second, with a maximum range of 16 kilometers. And the artillery preparation time is only 20 minutes! The rate of fire has also reached an astonishing level of 1 shot in 3 minutes!

Among the long-range train heavy guns above 350mm, Germany has only one artillery that can correspond to it, that is, the train gun modified with the Navy's 380mmL45 naval gun. The gun was almost entirely equipped with naval equipment, and the total weight of this gun reached 267.9 tons. It is transported using 2 x 5-axle cars and 2 x 4-axle carts. This gun can be fired in the form of a train, or on a special circular track, and when in the position of the column, its firing range can reach a ring fire, and can reach an elevation angle of up to 55 degrees, giving full play to the powerful power of this gun!

The range is long enough, and the shells are more powerful. A 750kg shell can be fired at a muzzle velocity of more than 800 meters, and the maximum range even exceeds 40km! In terms of performance, it can suppress almost any French train gun of the same period, but the problem is that the Germans only have one, and it came out a little late.......

When it was found that the long-range heavy artillery was not enough, the first thing the French did was to dismantle the original old shore defense guns and the 2nd main guns of battleships and cruisers, and then press them on the train as mobile guns.

For example, the old M1893 164mm gun, the M1884 240mm gun, and the M1893 (96) 305mm gun. Although these guns are relatively old and bulky, they are extremely powerful and have a long range, after all, they are the bones of naval guns. In particular, the 12-inch naval gun converted from a train gun can shoot a 321-351kg shell at a distance of more than 30 kilometers!

Later, the French felt that the weight of the shell was a little small, and expanded the chamber of the gun a little more, and made a 320mm train gun. Of course, this was only a transition, because soon the French decided to use the 340mm naval guns of the Brestani-class battleships of the French Navy super dreadnoughts to train guns!

The 164-ton 340mm train gun could shoot a 432kg shell over a distance of more than 44 kilometers, which was almost the same as the longest-range range of the 380mmL45 train gun used by Germany! (The firing range of the 380L45 gun of the author Juncha is different according to the weight of the shell, and if the 750kg 380mm shell is used, the maximum range of the German 380mm train gun is only 38.7km.) It was far inferior to the French 340mm train gun, but when using a 400kg light bullet, the muzzle velocity increased to 1040 meters. The maximum range is 47.5 km. ）

On the whole, the French naval artillery did not play much of a role in the sea, but saved the French ...... on the ground. The French people's practice of thinking about change when they are poor, making changes easy and reaching through them is worth learning from the prince. However, one of the very important reasons why the French were able to send such a wide variety and heavy artillery to the front line was to fight on the inside line.

Germany does not have naval guns, nor does it have no train guns, but the difficulty of using train guns on both sides is not the same, the French are fighting on their own soil, and the train guns can be directly connected with the domestic railway system, and the supply logistics and maintenance are very convenient. But the Germans were different. Not to mention the distance from the Krupp artillery factory to the battlefield, there is a distance of more than 300km from the German border to the battlefield, and at the end, many railways are even narrow-gauge railways. Naturally, transportation and use were greatly affected, and if it had not been really impossible, the Germans would not have mounted the bulky 380mm naval guns on the train.

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