Karl-Gerät [SEP] manufacturer
Karl-Gerät
""Karl-Gerät"" (040/041) (German literally "Karl-device"), 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, and 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
'Karl"', Stuttgart: Motorbuch-Verlag, 1981
External links.
- Gerät 040 and 041 - History
- mortar Karl in Kubinka tank museum
- Technical parameters
- YouTube Video of a Karl-Gerät firing and being loaded