A little wonder, every day
Fact 2230 — the Dora railway gun
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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A reconstructed super-heavy railway gun on parallel tracks, shown at rest near a coastal landscape.
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During World War II, Germany deployed the 80-centimeter railway gun “Dora” near Sevastopol. In firing position it weighed about 1,350 tonnes. Its range depended on the shell: a high-explosive round could travel about 47 kilometres, while an armor-piercing round reached about 38 kilometres.

