{"id":302,"date":"2010-02-13T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-08-09T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T17:11:39","slug":"the-calais-railway-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"The Calais Railway Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109\" title=\"Railwaygun\" src=\"http:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"K5 railway gun\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The K5 railway Gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A picture from the summer here, that I found when looking for something else in my photo archive. Its the WW2 German K5 railway gun at a museum on Cap Gris Nez near Calais. I dragged the family there when we were early for our ferry.<br \/>\nThe K5 is seriously impressive just for its sheer scale &#8211; the guns at the entrance of the Imperial War Museum are on a similar scale but aren&#8217;t mounted, so lack the impact.<br \/>\nFor those who want technical details, its a 283mm calibre gun (~11&#8243;) that fired shells weighting 255 kg up to 50 kilometres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture from the summer here, that I found when looking for something else in my photo archive. Its the WW2 German K5 railway gun at a museum on Cap Gris Nez near Calais. I dragged the family there when we were early for our ferry. The K5 is seriously impressive just for its sheer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/?p=302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Calais Railway Gun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}