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Big Bertha
* Most famous guns of WWI used by Germans, manufactured by the Krupp Firm, the world's largest weapons producer.

* Big Bertha: Invented in 1904 by Louis Gauthmann: 4 produced in all

* Movable siege mortar, could fire projectiles weighing 820 kilograms for as far as 15 kilometers, at as high a trajectory as 80 degrees.

*Used in August of 1916, during the German assault on the twelve-ringed fortifications at Liege, Belgium. Led to surrender of forts in 3 days.
* Railway Guns:  Designed to be mounted on and supported by railroad tracks for greater stability and more efficient assembly.

* Ex: Long Max, with firing range of 25-30 km.

* The Paris Gun: Shells could reach Paris from 130 km. away
The Paris Gun

* Shells weighed 92 kg., reached 40 km. altitudes, making them first man-made objects in stratosphere

* Gun killed 250 people, injured 620 in Paris, damaged property, had considerable psychological effects.

* Destroyed by Germans during their 1918 retreat.
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