• I recently read that the giant French WW1 era railway gun, Obusier de 520 modèle 1916, was used at Leningrad for several months before a misfire damaged the gun by the Germans.

    I could not find any information of the history of the gun while at Leningrad. How many rounds was fired? Was it targeting the Red Navy? Only that it was captured by Soviet forces.

    Does anyone know more on this gun?


  • Interesting – I’d never heard that the French had a WWI-era railway gun that was used by the Germans in WWII. Just from a theoretical viewpoint, however, I doubt that it could have been used to intentionally target Red Navy ships or even shore facilities; guns of that type probably weren’t accurate enough to hit anything specific within a city-sized target. It was probably used for general-purpose shelling during the siege of the city, to add to the overall misery of the population.

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