Karl-Gerät
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mörser Karl, Karlgerät, Karl-Gerät 040/041
'''Karl-Gerät (040/041) ( in German), also known as Mörser Karl', was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar (Mörser'') designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a diameter, shell; the range for its lightest shell of was just over . Each gun had to be accompanied by a crane, a two-piece heavy transport set of railcars, and several modified tanks to carry shells.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Karl-Gerät 041
- Weapon.image
- Karl23.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- A section of three 54 cm Gerät 041 in the field. The Munitionsschlepper is shown on the right.
- Weapon.origin
- Germany
- Weapon.type
- Self-propelled siege mortar
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.is_ranged
- yes
- Weapon.is_artillery
- yes
- Weapon.height
- (firing)
- Weapon.weight
- (firing)
- Weapon.service
- 1941–1945
- Weapon.used_by
- Wehrmacht
- Weapon.wars
- World War II
- Weapon.designer
- Rheinmetall
- Weapon.design_date
- 1937–1940
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Rheinmetall
- Weapon.production_date
- 1940–1942
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Development
- Variants
- Description
- Long-range transport and preparation procedures
- Automotive features
- Ammunition
- Combat history
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- Report
- 1945
- Fates
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
'''Karl-Gerät (040/041) ( in German), also known as Mörser Karl', was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar (Mörser) designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a diameter, shell; the range for its lightest shell of was just over . Each gun had to be accompanied by a crane, a two-piece heavy transport set of railcars, and several modified tanks to carry shells.
Seven guns were built, six of which saw combat between 1941 and 1945. It was used in attacking the Soviet fortresses of Brest-Litovsk and Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Uprising, participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and was used to try to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen. One Karl-Gerät has survived; the remainder were scrapped after the war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karl-Gerät” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.