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The Heavy Gustav was an 80 cm railway gun manufactured by Germany under Krupp. It weighed around 1350 tonnes and fired one 7-ton shell at a time at a range of 47 kilometers. It was developed specially to counter the strong French forts along Maginot Line.

Later, it was deployed in the Soviet Union during Operation Sevastopol where it caused significant damage to the Red Army one of which was destroying the munitions depot located 30 m underground and coated with concrete.

At the end of the war, it was destroyed by the Germans to avoid capture by the Red Army.

 

 

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