Posted on 05/24/2012 7:30:35 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Oh yes ... I first saw this in a documentary in the 1990s called Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
This was test fired at the Nevada Proving Ground in the 1950s with the M65 Atomic Cannon; Operation Upshot Knothole Grable
Thanks for adding this. It should be #1 on the PM list.
I dig the Punt Gun!
What? No mention of the Sultan’s cannon used to break down the walls of Constantinople?
I remember seeing drawings of large monster cannon used in Europe in the 1400s.
The pea or spit-ball shooter
Stuck at page 4...
The gun on the A10 is a winner.
The Yamoto class had big guns, but they were vastly inferior in fire control to American systems.
The Iowa class used the Mark 13 Fire Control suite. The system was insanely ahead of it’s time. It had a 3cm wavelength to Yamatos 10cm, and almost 25 times the power output.
Iowa had better speed(27 vs 33+ knots), adequate armor, highly-effective guns, and excellent fire control.
Yamoto had unreliable shells and brittle steel armor.
Ah, good choice. Don’t know why the site was stuck at page 4...
That recoil doesn't look "manageable" to me. It looks like it tried to split the shooter's head in two.
The Atomic Cannon is/was at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, MD. I last saw it about 8 years ago. Very impressive. I tried to bring it home but it wouldn’t fit in my van. Damned. There went my plans for urban renewal.
One of the German railroad siege guns was also there.
Spitballs. I once nailed a couple kids in high school during a food fight. Got the first between the eyes. The second opened his mouth and I got his upper left broad tooth.
The stealth spitballer strikes again!
Biggest baddest guns were the 16”ers on the Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and New Jersey.
My uncle was a signalman on the Missouri when the Japs signed.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II was actually designed around its cannon. The GAU-8 Avenger. It fires over 3,000 30×173 mm rounds a minute.
Sure hate to have a fizzle launch that dropped short.
They were great ships. The last true class of battleship.
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