Posted on 01/25/2019 9:55:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Gerald Bull was a very brilliant engineer who designed, built and tested artillery for the Canadian, and eventually for the American military. As missile technology improved, his research programmes were cancelled. Seeking money for research, he was hired by Saddam Hussein to build a gun capable of firing shells into Israel. Though warned to stop, he didn’t, and was killed, most likely by Mossad.
Bull was brilliant but like many other prodigies, was extremely naive about other things. While working on military projects, his real desire was to launch satellites (and possibly manned spacecraft) into orbit via guns. He did not understand how such a weapon could endanger peach in the ME, and how Israel would do everything to stop such a development. His naiveté cost him his life.
Sorry, ‘peach’ should be ‘PEACE’.
Sounds expensive, trying to outsmart Newton’s laws. Maybe stealthy drones could provide a platform.
This is nonsense.
There will never be a “gun” that shoots 1,000 miles and hits its target.
The system must be powered post-launch and maneuverable.
Never say ‘never’.......................
“We want to be able to hit moving targets and targets obscured by uneven terrain.”
LOL. Aliens travel here from faraway galaxies, and THEY can’t even hit a moving target! >8-p
That’s right. And they improve much of it, especially jet fighters.
Iron Dome missiles
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Other FReepers disagree with you. What say you now? There is nothing that can shoot down artillery.
The real problem was that he was months from putting something into orbit. And the rocket guys kept having failures. He would have beaten them if they had not pulled his funding.
And, even worse, his program was cheap .
Of course it doesn't scale up the way rockets do, but at that time popular opinion was not going to see that. The rocket guys were afraid of being shut down
The system must be powered post-launch and maneuverable...
We are closer than you think. We already have powered post-launch and maneuverable. We just can't reach out 1000 miles yet.
My point is that would not be a “gun”.
It would be a powered cruise missile launched from a gun barrel.
Would be a great way to put cubesats in orbit.
The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to 70 kilometres (43 mi) away and whose trajectory would take them to a populated area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
Thanks.
Why not simply use smart rockets which have already been invented? Aren’t they cheaper?
Someone was on drugs when they wrote this. An effort to get to 100 nm would be significant.
You know the Army.
If it ain’t expensive they don’t want it!...............
LOL!.................100 nm to ME is 100 NANO-METERS!....................
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