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german super weapons
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Posted: Sunday, August 02, 2009 - 04:37 PM UTC
Does anyone know what happened to the german super weapons,maus,dora railway gun and the karl mortars and if they werent destroyed are they on display somwhere
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Posted: Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 03:57 AM UTC
Hey Christian, I at least have some answers:

Maus was captured intact (as much as it could be) in Germany and sent to Russia. It's now on display at the Kubinka mueseum (can't spell )

Maus

One of the Karls survived which is also at Kubinka. Now they painted it as "Adam" but that's technically wrong. The first production (two) "Adam" and "Eva" had 8 bogies with rubber wheels. This one at Kubinka is a later production.

Morser Karl

Info on what happened to 'em are at the bottom of the page
here

As for the Dora/Schwere Gustav, I have no idea

Hope I helped,
Rich
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Posted: Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 05:14 PM UTC


The Leopold is currently at the National Ordnance Museum @ Aberdeen.
That is me breaking the law by climbing on it.

Well worth the 15 hour drive.

Shaun
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 10:33 AM UTC
Dora was destroyed to avoid its capture, while Gustav was captured by the US and scrapped.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 01:56 PM UTC
The E100 hull was taken to England (most likely Bovington) and later sold for scrap.
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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2009 - 05:56 AM UTC
What a shame, destroying all those tanks/guns. I guess after the war, people were pretty happy to scrap all that reminded them for the carnage (not to mention the precious materials). Yet, it would be nice to have more KV-2s, Il-2s, Tigers, and all, hanging around.