Big Bertha The Cannon that Changed Warfare (or Never Fired a Shot)

In 1991, Callaway Golf introduced a golf club that set the industry on its ear. At 190cc, the oversized Big Bertha Driver (named, appropriately after a ... Mallet were— or could easily have been—the marvel of their time. They had the largest caliber of any gun ever built before or after, the bore of the barrel ... A 140-ton German siege gun, with tubes 90 feet long, is being demilitarized near Grafenwöhr by workers who are slicing up the giant weapon with cutting torches. Big Bertha, a type of 420-mm (16.5-inch) howitzer that was first used by the German army to bombard Belgian and French forts during World War I. The lumbering German 42cm M-Gerät howitzer was designed to reduce the stout Allied defensive fortresses along the Western Front. Germany's long-range gun in WW1 was called 'Big Bertha'. Posted in Historical articles, History, Weapons, World War 1 on Friday, 5 April 2013. After repeat performances at Namur, Maubeuge and Antwerp, German soldiers christened the howitzers 'Grosse' or 'Dicke Berta' (Fat or Big Bertha) ... The Germans were much surprised at the long range of the "Big Berthas" that shelled Paris, as, were the Allies. It was built to shoot about 37 miles ... The guns were so called because they were specially built ... These advances wrought a further transformation in the ever-changing nomenclature and classification ... The Big Bertha was a German initiative set into action before World War 1 (1914-1918). The Germans, like their counterparts in Austria-Hungary, observed the ...