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Focke-Wulf 58 Weihe (Harrier). VIP transport, airgunnery trainer, fast cargo and photorecon bird.

One on display today in Brazil.

Norwegians are rebuilding another at Bodoe.

Used by 17 different countries, including Finland, the Nasties and dear old Soviet Onion.

It has a page in Wikipedia once you know what it is.

I got this from the German Civil Aircraft Register.

Looks to have a fair bit of Junkers in its ancestry, along with a smidgen of DC-3. That threw me.
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smellie said:
Focke-Wulf 58 Weihe (Harrier). VIP transport, airgunnery trainer, fast cargo and photorecon bird.

One on display today in Brazil.

Norwegians are rebuilding another at Bodoe.

Used by 17 different countries, including Finland, the Nasties and dear old Soviet Onion.

It has a page in Wikipedia once you know what it is.

I got this from the German Civil Aircraft Register.

Looks to have a fair bit of Junkers in its ancestry, along with a smidgen of DC-3. That threw me.
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Thx Smellie:) I was going crazy too, found every planes except this one.

Joce
 
Good day fellow Gunnutz :) New day new picture :)

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Cheers
Joe
 
Judging by the picture this was during the first war.

But talk about a HUGE was of resources. I recall during war two, the germans had one (possibly the one pictured) with a gun crew of 500. The CO was a General. The only time it was used was to shell Leningrad.
 
plinker 777 said:
Whoa! Now THAT is a smoke pole!! I'll assume that this "thing" isn't on a turret (firing at 90 degrees to the track would knock it over) so they build the track to suit their target!?! What gives?
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the track they built for these things was curved so that they could get left/right aiming...
 
jwhc said:
Good day fellow Gunnutz :) New day new picture :)

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Cheers
Joe
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WW2 Railway Gun

plinker 777 said:
Whoa! Now THAT is a smoke pole!! I'll assume that this "thing" isn't on a turret (firing at 90 degrees to the track would knock it over) so they build the track to suit their target!?! What gives?
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Cdn303 said:
Judging by the picture this was during the first war.

But talk about a HUGE was of resources. I recall during war two, the germans had one (possibly the one pictured) with a gun crew of 500. The CO was a General. The only time it was used was to shell Leningrad.
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That is a screen grab from a WW2 German piece of film. The Germans had several railway guns.
 
Cdn303 said:
Judging by the picture this was during the first war.

But talk about a HUGE was of resources. I recall during war two, the germans had one (possibly the one pictured) with a gun crew of 500. The CO was a General. The only time it was used was to shell Leningrad.
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actually not- it is ww2, and that's a 28 cm RAILWAY gun- ie anzio annie, and a bunch of others- it's a krupp k-5 ; the one you're confusing it with was MUCH larger- over 25 of these were built, and with a compliment of 42 officers and men, although it could fire with only 24- special track had to be laid, and i have an example of one being mounted on a railway turntable- some 7 or 8 were in service at the battle of france, with the rest being issued throughout the war
range was about 40 miles
 
Photos greatly appreciated, Gibbs, but they are of two entirely different rounds.

Designations, headstamps, specs would be VERY much appreciated.

That bottom one makes some of my ideas look positively sane. Think of the potential for feed troubles!

Thanks for photos.
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