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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Bronze 'Tsar cannon' - 20' long (6 meters), 39 tons. Designed in 1586 to fire 890-mm stone projectiles capable of knocking down castle walls. Each round weighed 1,700 lbs (770 kg).
There is no official record that it was ever fired in war, scoring on the inner barrel suggests it might have been tested at least once
Per the Guinness Book of Records, it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.

I've seen and read about this online before. Amazing. I've got to assume that it was mostly for show/bragging rights. If it was primarily for functional purposes, why would it have all of the ornamentation. I also can't imagine having to move that into position to attack another castle. Then I'm sure the "loading" process is a night mare as well. How many guys end up getting killed and mangled while trying to load it.

those whacky Nazis!


duck/fowl hunting gun