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What was the biggest gun train ever built?
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During the First World War, several armies put machine guns and artillery on railway trucks. But the largest-ever rail-mounted gun was the Second World War German gun called Schwere Gustav. Weighing 1,329 tons, it could fire 4.6 metres long shells at targets 30 miles (48 km) away, at a rate of one every 15 minutes. | | The largest and most powerful gun ever carried on a railway was the German gun Schwere Gustav. |
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Book:
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