1000mm , one would have to climb down the barrel with a mop soaked in hopes to cleant that mutha
Yup, trying to copy another German WWII gun... nicknamed the "Paris" rail-gun. (No, the Paris rail-gun wasn't 1000mm but it was extremely large!)MachIVshooter said:Saddam Hussein was in the process of building a 1000mm gun, but the UN seized the last shipments of barrel section before it was completed. He wanted to use it to shell Israel. IIRC, the barrel would have been nearly 100 meters long (280 feet, I think it was)
This gun could have been used in a primative space program, to literally put a man in space.
Not to metion the chief engineer(American IIRC) was found in a London Hotel with multiple gunshots(.22 cal) to the back of the head.Saddam Hussein was in the process of building a 1000mm gun,
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This gun could have been used in a primative space program, to literally put a man in space.
Kinda like Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, they used a giant cannon to launch a shell with 3 men inside to the moon. Could have almost done that with this goliath.