Image capture of SCP-044 during an experiment titled "Upshot Knolte Ford Grable"
Summary
SCP-044 is a howitzer, secretly manufactured in the late stages of the Second World War by Krupp engineers, personally supervised by Albert Speer, German Minister of Armaments and War Production under Adolf Hitler. SCP-044 is unique not only because of its size (251,000 kg, or 251 metric tons), but also because it fires unconventional artillery using an atypical delivery method. Rather than having a breech for loading shells, the rear of the barrel is configured into a massive air-compression chamber. Any object or pile of objects that fits may be loaded into SCP-044’s muzzle to be used as ammunition. Because of its size, SCP-044 must remain rail-mounted and requires two freight locomotives to move. When SCP-044 is fired, all matter within its barrel is ejected at a high rate of speed as a glowing red slug, proportional in size to the amount of mass loaded into the muzzle. Upon striking a solid object or the ground, the slug explodes with a yield proportional to the mass of the original ammunition, at no less than a 100% mass-to-energy conversion rate. The yield will also increase somewhat the longer the slug remains in the barrel.
Powers and Stats
Tier: Varies with ammunition, at most High 6-C
Name: SCP-044, "World War II Era Molecular-Fission Cannon"
Origin: SCP Foundation
Age: Around 70 years old
Classification: Safe-Class Anomalous Weapon
Wielders: The Foundation, formerly Nazi Germany
Powers and Abilities:
- Explosion Manipulation (Shown here)
- Matter Manipulation (Atomic - Can weaken molecular and atomic bonds)
Attack Potency: Varies with ammunition, at most Large Island level (Used an 8,900 kg pickup truck as ammo, which produced a slug that created an explosion with an energy output of 191 gigatons of TNT or 8e+20 joules at 100% mass-to-energy conversion rate)
Speed: Immobile (SCP-044 is immobile on its own, so it must remain rail-mounted and requires two freight locomotives to move)
Durability: Unknown
Range: Unknown
Weaknesses: Low mobility
References
All scans within this page are from the SCP's file