Paris Gun - Good enough accuracy for city-size targets - 130km range - 42km altitude
Paris Gun - Good enough accuracy for city-size targets - 130km range - 42km altitude
From /u/Ludotheos on R*ddit
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Nonsense, trebuchets are superior.
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Wait, it's serious? I thought this was a picture of farming equipment before I zoomed in
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Used in WW1, a one of a kind gun (although it had different barrels installed during its life). It was designed for psychological rather than practical reasons. The payload of 211mm or later 238mm shells sound big, but their effect compared to the cost and effort of firing them wasn’t practically worthwhile.
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Thanks!
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most lately construction of similar kind of gun was attempted under Saddam "▇▅▆▇▆▅▅█" Hussein as Project Babylon. it didn't work because required high pressure pipes were intercepted and head engineer was assassinated
this was done by the same guy who, at first try, wanted to send satellites to orbit using a giant gun, as DoD Project HARP. it also didn't work, but at least it was useful for atmospheric physics research
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Kaboom!
->Where did it hit hanz?
Somewhere in the direction of Paris
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This is, in fact, a weapon of terror.
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God that's such a cool device
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"city-sized targets". So...cities. It's a non-discriminate artillery.
No no, "accuracy for city-size targets"
A large city the size of a small city.