Talk:Operation Felix

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The giant 800mm Dora cannon was built by germans to demolish Gibraltar. If that was used there would be no saxons and monekys on the rock today, in fact the very rock would not exist any more. Its 7 ton projectile penetrated 60 meters of rock, no shelter would protect against that! The spanish were stupid not to join the invasion.

Re the above: WTF?!

Second your WTF. Getting Dora to Gib would have been a logistical nightmare. And what invasion??? Darkmind1970 14:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Dora-type ultra-heavy railguns were NOT built with gibraltar in mind, but against the Maginot line. To elaborate Darkind1970's point, IIRC, Spain had (has?) a different rail gauge than France/Germany, so for Dora they'd have had to lay a PAIR of tarcks all the way from the Pyrenaes (or even through?) down to Gibraltar.

Furthermore, Gibraltar is not just one fat bunker, but still some area, which you cannot demlosh with a few shells even of the Dora. Finally, I wonder if the RAF wouldn't have had anything to say about Dora.thestor 07:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not that it matters all those years later, but the Dora-type railway gun was assembled from parts at the point of action, requiring several tracks to be built alongside each other in any case. (The gun was much too wide to sit on a single track, and did rely on a curved track for traverse, which the gun itself did not have.) Besides, Russia also had a different rail gauge than Germany, which didn't keep the Germans from getting Dora to Sevastopol and Leningrad. I fully agree that Dora was not built specifically with Gibraltar in mind, but there is nothing that would have technically prevented such a mission. Tactical and political considerations are different, though. -- DevSolar (talk) 09:11, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]