Possessing a series of "strange" super weapons, the Nazis still lost miserably?

A "strange" super weapon researched and developed by the Nazis was the Gustav gun. The Hitler regime deployed this project to penetrate strong French fortifications, such as the Maginot Line. Photo: Josep Marimon Coll.

Nazi Germany approved the first heavy artillery project in 1937 at a cost of 10 million Marks. At Hitler's request, in 1941, the German company Friedrich Krupp AG began the process of building the world's largest gun , the Gustav. Photo: Screen grab.

The Gustav gun is 12.2m tall, has a barrel longer than 30.4m, uses 787.4mm bullets, is 3.65m long, and has an effective range of 32.1km. This bullet has two variants: a 5-ton explosive bullet and a 7-ton armor-piercing bullet. Photo: Screen grab.

Due to the huge size of the Gustav gun, the disadvantage was that it took a lot of time for soldiers to fire and operate it. To use this weapon , hundreds of people were involved in the operating stages. Next, because it could only be transported by rail, this weapon became a target for Allied bombers. Therefore, the Gustav gun did not bring the effectiveness that Hitler and the Nazis expected. Photo: Getty.

The Krummlauf curved gun was another bizarre Nazi weapon.
To help soldiers use rifles to shoot over obstacles without revealing their position to the enemy, engineers working for Hitler researched and manufactured a curved barrel attached to the MP-44 rifle. Photo: sandboxx.

By design, the Krummlauf curved barrel gun allows soldiers to fire at angles from a safe position or from an armored vehicle. Photo: Creative Commons.

However, the Krummlauf had disadvantages including the bullets often breaking in half before exiting the barrel. Therefore, this weapon did not bring high combat effectiveness and was soon "forgotten". Photo: Creative Commons.

Another bizarre Nazi weapon project was the Goliath mini-tank. Designed to carry up to 45 kg of explosives and travel at a speed of nearly 10 km/h, the weapon was small enough to travel underneath Allied tanks and detonate underneath them to cause maximum damage. Photo: militaryhistoria.

However, the Goliath tank had a major drawback: it was controlled remotely via a 653m long cable coiled inside the body of the tank. Therefore, Allied soldiers could easily disable this weapon if they cut the cable. Photo: militaryhistoria.

During World War II, the Nazis built 7,500 Goliath tanks, but the results were not good enough to help Hitler turn the tide of war. Photo: militaryhistoria.