Pariser Kanonen

Pariser Kanonen ( guns of Paris ) is the name given to one or more parts of Artillerie to long range used by the German during the First World War to bombard Paris. Contrary to a tough popular belief, this (S) gun (S) is (are) different (S) from that which one called " Large Bertha ".

Characteristics

Gauge: 210 mm and 240 mm (the wear of the tube increased the gauge)
Length of the tube: 36 m
Carried shooting: 126 km
Weight of the gun: 750 tons
initial Speed of the projectile: 1.600 m/s.
Mass of the shell: 103 kg
Time of flight of the projectile: 176 S

The drawn shell reaches the maximum altitude of 42 km to the Apogée of its Trajectoire. It was a long time the Record of altitude reaches by an object launched by the Man (until the invention of the rocket V2 at the time of the Second world war).

Localization

It is still not known very well today if there were only one or several guns. One knows three launching pads: Castle-Thierry (02), Coucy-the-Castle (02), Baumont (02). However, it is not known if one dealt with gun which the Germans moved from one place to another, or if there were a gun on each launching pad.

Today, one can see one of these steps of shooting in Forêt of Saint-Gobain beside Coucy-the-Castle in the Aisne. One sees the enormous concrete basin there on which one placed the gun.

External bonds

A page on the gun of Paris

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