I done this by elevating the barrel to approximately 150 mls then with a heave pick up the trail with the handspike. Many countries have built railway guns, but the best known are the large Krupp-built pieces used by Germany in World War I and World War II.Smaller guns were often part of an armoured train. One of my party tricks was move a 105mm Light gun on my own. A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval ordnance, mounted on, transported by and fired from a specially-designed railway wagon. Some coastal artillery was trunnioned at the point of balance owing to the potential of only firing at a low trajectory but once there is a need to elevate the barrel you either raise the height of the carriage or dig a deep hole for the breach neither is practical. These massive turrets were built during the white lion railways operation FoxHunt as a part of the Earth Defense Force(EDF) program to protect the planet.
The ideal would be a gun balanced without the need for equilibrators but with most guns this would put the breach at a height where the crew could not reach, the gun would be too tall to conceal and unstable when transported.Ī few examples of WW2 guns with some system of balance gear.Īll these weapons the crew were able to load the gun without being on an elevated platform, most were towable in one load and were fairly easy to conceal. There are notable exceptions - perhaps the K12(E) is one, but in general, that is the optimal design.Īs an ex-REME gun fitter I will have to disagree with what you have written. The trunnions are set at the barrel's center of balance, which allows it to lay level for transport and loading. Its weight is designed to offset the length of the barrel. MLW wrote:As I understand it, with heavy artillery, the barrel is not usually muzzle heavy.
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