Thoughts about V-3 "The high-pressure pump" (Hochdruckpumpe, HDT) or "London cannon"
V-3 cannon
V-3 (Vergeltungswaffe 3)was one of the most interesting weapons of the Second World war, and it has been in the base for the modern "super cannons" like Saddam's legendary "Babylon" cannon, what was not actually the multi-chamber cannon. "Babylon" was one kind of giant "Bazooka", and there were plans to shoot Scud-missiles through it. The tube would sink in the water, and then the hatch in the back would open, and the water pressure would pull the rocket out from the tube.
The V-3 was multi-chamber cannon and that kind of artillery equipment have problems with synchronization of the explosives, what is installed in those chambers. In the modern versions of multi-chamber cannons, those explosives are launched behind the ammunition by using computers, and when grenade would pass the chamber, the explosives would detonate one after one, what denies the massive rise of pressure in the tube.
When we are thinking the V-3 weapon it has been installed in one fixed site in northern France, and this was one of the biggest problems in that cannon. If there would be the perfect site for that cannon, would the launch rate increase to 300 grenades in an hour. But that was mean that the base has got perfect layers and lots of men to reload the tube and clean it but in field conditions the fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Bcce-ogQQ
The cannon site at Mimoyecques, northern France (Was V-3 meant for a multi-purpose solution, what could also be used for anti-aircraft purposes?)
In the northern France site were multiple V-3 tubes, and the greatest weakness about this site was that those tubes were fixed, which means that they couldn't turn any direction. When allied located that bunker, they attacked against it by using 5000 kilograms "Tall Boy" bombs. But there were plans to make that weapon more suitable for the field use. In that "field model" there would be the stick in the middle of the tube, and it would be turned by using two trucks or tanks, what was driving circular track.
The idea was to make that weapon collapsible and the tube was planned to take in the fire position in pieces, what would put together, and then that weapon could be turned to direction, where the users would want to turn it. The real effect of V-3 was mostly psychological. But when the people are looking at the fortress of Northern France they might think that this weapon might be meant for some other purposes. The fear was that the entire city would rounded by this kind of V-3 cannons, and they would be used also as the anti-aircraft artillery, what could cause losses for the allied pilots if they would try to fly across the line of V-3 cannons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
V-3 cannon
V-3 (Vergeltungswaffe 3)was one of the most interesting weapons of the Second World war, and it has been in the base for the modern "super cannons" like Saddam's legendary "Babylon" cannon, what was not actually the multi-chamber cannon. "Babylon" was one kind of giant "Bazooka", and there were plans to shoot Scud-missiles through it. The tube would sink in the water, and then the hatch in the back would open, and the water pressure would pull the rocket out from the tube.
The V-3 was multi-chamber cannon and that kind of artillery equipment have problems with synchronization of the explosives, what is installed in those chambers. In the modern versions of multi-chamber cannons, those explosives are launched behind the ammunition by using computers, and when grenade would pass the chamber, the explosives would detonate one after one, what denies the massive rise of pressure in the tube.
When we are thinking the V-3 weapon it has been installed in one fixed site in northern France, and this was one of the biggest problems in that cannon. If there would be the perfect site for that cannon, would the launch rate increase to 300 grenades in an hour. But that was mean that the base has got perfect layers and lots of men to reload the tube and clean it but in field conditions the fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Bcce-ogQQ
The cannon site at Mimoyecques, northern France (Was V-3 meant for a multi-purpose solution, what could also be used for anti-aircraft purposes?)
The idea was to make that weapon collapsible and the tube was planned to take in the fire position in pieces, what would put together, and then that weapon could be turned to direction, where the users would want to turn it. The real effect of V-3 was mostly psychological. But when the people are looking at the fortress of Northern France they might think that this weapon might be meant for some other purposes. The fear was that the entire city would rounded by this kind of V-3 cannons, and they would be used also as the anti-aircraft artillery, what could cause losses for the allied pilots if they would try to fly across the line of V-3 cannons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
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