Iraq giant cannon, page 2

reply to post by bbc100

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[edit on 24-2-2010 by Beancounter72]

for anyone interested who lives in the UK, this super cannon is included in an exhibition at Tate modern:

everydaylifestyle.wordpress.com...

www.tate.org.uk...

Awesome exhibition, Saddam was influenced by the first star wars film, even the fedayeen's helmets were copied from the Darth Vader helmet...no joke....!

reply to post by Facefirst

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It wasn't really based on the German guns in any meaningful way. The only thing they have in common is that they are both really big guns. Because of the nature of the things, that makes them pretty similar in general. The Iraq gun was much closer based on Gerald Bull's earlier work for the US government in project HARP, which had him launching small rocket assisted shells into space using a large gun made from two surplus 16'' battleship gun tubes welded together. The iraq gun was so large that even the smaller test version had to be built onto the side of a hill, instead of on some kind of gun carriage.

Bull's superguns don't really have anything in common with the Nazi's V3 superguns, which used a caterpillar arrangement to get more power. Bull's guns were just really big guns.

Gerald Bull invented all kinds of stuff for artillery. I guess he isn't a household name just because artillery isn't a household appliance.

reply to post by bbc100

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link is broken, can't seem the image, sounds very interesting though!

Here is a photo of the project harp gun.
en.wikipedia.org...

It too was designed by Gerald Bull

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