![]() This definition, shared by the Arms Trade Treaty and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, is derived from a definition in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/36L, which set a threshold of 100mm. ![]() The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is " guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or multiple-launch rocket system, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 75 millimetres and above". Model of the Paris Gun on fixed mounting.Īdolf Gun, a German World War 2 cross-Channel firing gunĪ section of the Iraqi supergun from Imperial War Museum Duxford Mons Meg, built in 1449 on the orders of Philip the Goodīronze Dardanelles Gun, built in 1464, saw action until 19th centuryġ5th-century Pumhart von Steyr, the largest known iron bombard by calibre ![]() See also: List of the largest cannon by calibre ![]()
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