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This time, I'm talking about the heavy artillery in the "King of the Marines" tank and the "God of War" artillery that appeared in the First World War!

The first is the "king of the land" tank!

19 15, a fierce battle took place on the western front of Europe. Due to the great power of machine guns, the losses of the attackers far exceed those of the defenders. In this case, the British and French allied forces and the German army fell into a stalemate trench warfare!

Both sides try their best to break through each other's defense lines and break this deadlock!

Among them, an Englishman made a suggestion. No one expected that this proposal would change the whole history of mankind in the future, and it would also make great changes in the mode of war!

The role is Lieutenant Colonel Swinton. He proposed to develop a new weapon that organically combines firepower (suppressing the enemy), cross-country (quickly breaking through the defense line of the other side) and protection (resisting machine gun fire)!

After the plan came out, the British army thought that this tractor and machine gun (the early tanks were so simple) were useless and would only waste money!

But Churchill, then secretary of the navy, had a unique vision! I think this weapon will be a great success! Not only ordered the formation of the "Land Warship Committee", but also invested huge sums of money!

Therefore, the tank, a land weapon with the title of "king of land warfare", is regarded as a joke by the army and developed at the expense of the irrelevant navy!

1965438+In September 2005, after the prototype was made, it was called "Little Tramp". The whole vehicle weight 18 ton, and the armor thickness is 6 mm (although it is so thin, it was enough at that time! In terms of firepower, there are several machine guns beside the track! (There was no rotating turret at that time)

It is worth mentioning that the British Navy gave this new weapon a code name "water tank", transliteration for tank! Since then, this name has been widely accepted and is still in use today.

1965438+September 2006 15, tanks first boarded the battlefield and participated in the battle of the somme river. Due to failures and other reasons, 48 tanks were put into use, and few of them really put into battle!

But this is a huge psychological shock to the Germans! For the first time, they met an enemy who couldn't explode with a machine gun! Those enemies were sitting in the "iron bumps" and shooting at them with machine guns. Those "attack force's nightmare" barbed wire and machine guns have no effect on tanks. They easily broke through the defense lines that usually require thousands of casualties!

By the end of World War I, tanks had gradually solved many problems such as failures and made more and more achievements! France and Germany also learn from Britain, owning Renault and A7V tanks respectively. Among them, the French Renault tank pioneered the rotating turret, which is now the standard of tanks and has become a milestone in the history of tanks!

After World War I, the German high command reported to Congress that tanks were the primary factor in Germany's defeat!

During the Second World War, tanks became a land weapon that any country must match and became a well-deserved "king of land warfare"!

Next, I want to talk about the heavy artillery in the "God of War" artillery!

When it comes to modern heavy artillery, we have to mention Germany. Germans really have a soft spot for artillery, and their artillery was also the highest level in the world at that time!

The most famous heavy artillery in World War I was the "Paris Cannon"! The Paris cannon was not made in France, but in Germany, named after the Germans used it to bomb Paris!

This cannon is 19 18, which was rebuilt by naval artillery at the end of World War I. At that time, it was built to inspire the morale of the German army and shock the French army!

In order to attack Paris, the French capital, directly in the German occupied area, the Germans made great efforts to splice several barrels, the length of which reached 36 meters, which was higher than ten floors!

The maximum range of this cannon has reached an incredible 13 1 km! This range is now, and many heavy guns can't reach it. It is hard to believe that this product will appear more than 100 years ago!

But at that time, although this cannon frightened the French, it could not turn the tide in World War I! Germany is still defeated!

However, Germans with heavy artillery complex developed an even crazier "Gustav" heavy artillery in World War II, which was powerful enough to destroy a fortress with one shot!

Human thinking and creativity are really unimaginable!