The most famous artillery gun of World War II was the Flak 88 cannon, an 8.8 cm high-velocity weapon equally applicable for antiaircraft and antitank use. The design, adapted in 1938, weighed about 9,600 pounds and was towed by a prime mover. It was served by an eleven-man crew, which occasionally could sustain twenty rounds per minute.. Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time. The fully assembled gun weighed nearly.
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152 mm gun M1910/34 - captured from Russian. 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) - captured from Russian. 17 cm Kanone 18 (heaviest German field artillery piece) 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette (surplus guns on excess carriages of 17 cm Kanone 18) 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) - captured from Russian.. Field artillery was a key component of German battlefield success in the Second World War. As this short but informative Osprey New Vanguard book reveals, the pressures of combat led to a great deal of improvisation. The German army continually adapted its weapons to emerging combat conditions and made much use of artillery captured from opponents.
