Building Hitler's Supergun: The Plot to Destroy London
Program Details
The biggest gun the world had ever seen and the unbelievable efforts to take it down.
Building Hitler’s Supergun: The Plot to Destroy London recreates and tests Hitler’s game-changing, 25-barrelled V-3 Supergun weapon and the faulty Allied attempts to destroy it.
Now, armed with a handful of grainy photographs to guide him, Cambridge University engineer Hugh Hunt rebuilds the Nazi’s monstrous cannon to discover how the gun worked and to examine if it really could have reduced London to rubble and help the leader of the Third Reich regain the advantage in the war.
Hugh researches the innovative Allied weapons experts who designed earth-shattering technology to destroy Hitler’s bunker-fortified supergun. And, in an exciting series of experiments, he replicates their flawed attack plans and reveals their historically fatal consequences.
