The Monster Gun of the Crimean War
Historic Military Tradecraft
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2m 53s
The story of a 'superweapon' designed to break the stalemate of siege warfare in the Crimea using all the industrial might Victorian Britain had to offer. This massive 36in mortar could fire a 2900lb shell nearly two miles - built in 1854 as a Crimean War superweapon by Robert Mallet, an Irish geologist who had been experimenting with rock blasting and seismology.
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