Krupp large caliber guns of WW2

[00-PureEvil-00]

Found some mentions of Krupp large caliber naval gun projects, such as 45cm/52 gun from 1934, and 45cm/60 and 50cm/60 guns from 1942. Unfortunately I couldn't find any more info on them. Maybe someone here can help with it?

 

[Nik]

Are the latter related to the 'Dover' guns ??

 

[Bottleship]

Found some mentions of Krupp large caliber naval gun projects, such as 45cm/52 gun from 1934, and 45cm/60 and 50cm/60 guns from 1942. Unfortunately I couldn't find any more info on them. Maybe someone here can help with it?

Krupp 53cm/52

Germany 53 cm/52 (21") Gerät 36 - NavWeaps

www.navweaps.com

Data of 50cm - 2000 kg projectile, 820 mps, but, I do not remember where and when I found it, perhaps this data is not reliable.
According to some reports, the H-42 and H-43 were supposed to have 48cm guns.
Wikipedia, referring to Siegfried Breyer's 1973 book, reports that Hitler wanted 24-inch cannons (61cm).
That is, in total, the Germans discussed the guns:
45 cm
48 cm
50 cm
53 cm
61 cm
For railway artillery, Krupp developed projects of 700, 800, 850, 1000 mm, a project of 800 mm ("Dora") was implemented:

Krupp 80 cm Kanone Schwerer Gustav (Dora) Railway Gun

The Krupp 80 cm Kanone (E) Schwerer Gustav / Dora was a huge railway gun developed for a need that ultimately did not exist. Although impractical, the German WWII weapon was a feat of engineering.

oldmachinepress.com

Projected 52cm Lange Gustav:

80cm Kanone in Eisenbahnlafette ‘Gustav Gerät’

The third gun whose production occupied Krupp’s designers after 1937 was this 80cm monster. In common with most superweapons many legends have grown up around the 80cm K(E), and with the pass…

weaponsandwarfare.com

 

[cattalonX]

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/kriegsmarine-central-km-ship-plans-discussion.37568/

 

[publiusr]

There was a book called The House of Krupp IIRC. Did the sphere of the Trieste, right?

 

[Bottleship]

 

[muttly]

In the book German warships 1815-1945 H-42 and 43 had 48cm while
H-44 had 50.8 cm

 

[World B4]

In regards to the 80cm and related and 52cm krupp guns, here's a big fog in all the tertiary sources, disagreements on the number of guns, number of variants, whether "Dora" was another name for Gustav, etc. I'm very interested in the 52cm variant supposedly found at Essen by American troops. The whole project was highly classified during the war, and thrown through the blender of hearsay afterwards but the range capabilities planned would have added another chapter in the history of London's bombardment.

 

[World B4]

Wehrmachtslokomotive D 311 – Wikipedia

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