Multiple choice general knowledge history

This German cannon was one of 2 unique cannons whose barrels alone over 70 feet in lenght, its shells required a huge crane to lift and load them and each shell weighed around 1 tonne. The cannon was made so that like the V2 rockets death could be rained at targets far away. What was the cannons name?

  1. The Fat man

  2. The Little Boy

  3. The Gustav

  4. The Mauser
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Explanation

The Gustav gun (Schwerer Gustav) was a massive German railway gun with a barrel over 70 feet long, firing 1-ton shells. It was one of two such cannons built (the other being Dora). The other options are either atomic bomb names (Fat Man, Little Boy) or incorrect (Mauser).

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