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World War II artillery was never supposed to fire like this.

Pre-war doctrine assumed that gun barrels would wear out fast under sustained fire, forcing pauses while replacements arrived. That assumption quietly collapsed during the war. On every front, guns were consuming themselves faster than factories could replace them.

Instead of stopping fire, Allied ordnance units accepted a dangerous compromise.

They installed internal barrel liners — thin steel sleeves designed not to improve performance, but to delay failure. Accuracy suffered. Pressure curves changed. Risk increased. But the guns kept firing when silence would have been fatal.

This documentary explains how artillery barrel liners became a wartime endurance solution, why German intelligence noticed something was wrong, and how managing degradation replaced replacement as the key to sustained firepower.

This is not a story about better weapons.
It’s a story about how long a weapon could survive under continuous war.

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