GTP Alternative Cool Wall: 1931-1941 B-4 203 mm Soviet super-heavy howitzer

[Roger the Horse]

Nominated by @Rage Racer

1931-1941 B-4
203 mm Soviet super-heavy howitzer

Nicknames: Stalin's Sledgehammer, Karelian Sculptor
In service: 1931-present (B-4M with wheel chassis since 1955)

Weight: Combat: 17,700 kg (39,022 lbs); Travel: 19,000 kg (41,888 lbs)
Barrel length: Bore: 4.894 m (16 ft 1 in) L/24.1; Overall: 5.087 m (16 ft 8 in) L/25
Shell: high-explosive 100 kg (220 lbs), anti-concrete 100-146 kg, nuclear (since 1965) 150 kg
Caliber: 203 mm (8 in)
Breech: interrupted screw
Elevation: 0° to 60°
Traverse: 8°
Rate of fire: 1 round per 2 minutes
Muzzle velocity: 607 m/s (1,990 ft/s)
Maximum firing range: 18 km (11 mi)​

 

[Parker]

Fairly high cool.

 

[Lizard]

A gun that can shoot nukes is cool.

 

[Cano]

Metal Slug. Cool.

 

[Grand Prix]

It's cool, but when it comes to howitzers, Big Bertha is more iconic to me. Nuke cannons and howitzers are a morbidly fascinating concept though,

 

[niky]

It's a big bad musket. But it's still just an antiquated, now-useless musket.

Okay, a breech-loader, then. A huge, cumbersome breech-loading rifle that just happens to fire nuclear bullets.

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Okay... I'll admit, that last bit is fairly cool.

 

[SomePlayaDude]

It won't be long before we see a giant Stalin mecha.

 

[Legro]

It's a big pointless, unusable, gun. The keywords are 'big', 'pointless' and 'unusable'. The words pushing it away from sub zero are 'Stalin' and 'gun'. It would have been super, hyper, seriously uncool in the 1940s, but it isn't 1940s anymore.

 

[The Bman]

Ugly. Unattractive. Uncool.

I would say oversized but that would ruin my "three U's" thing.

 

[Cano]

It won't be long before we see a giant Stalin mecha.

That would be cool.

 

[Adamgp]

Makes big boom.

S-Z.

 

[Doodle]

Weapons are setiously uncool.

 

[Michael88]

Mortars are really cool, and the bigger the better. The most amazing thing is its service life, 1931-present, wow!