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Thta cannon is "Atomic Annie" She's sitting at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the museum park on post. (I got to run my hand along the baby while I was there!! {Artilleryman for 'I touch loud boom}It's huge... well.. compared to what my unit was using. An M119a1 105mm howitzer just looks kinda dinky compared to Atomic Annie.) That was the first tac nuke fired from a howitzer of any kind in the US. Annie and her descendants were rail transported and deflection was changed by running the car backwards or forwards along it's curved track. (The tracks for these monsters were circular)
Didn't matter much whether or not you were accurate, you just needed to get close. Annie's place in the world was usurped by the Atlas missile and it's descendants. (And the medium range missiles fired from truck.) But tac nukes continued to be developed for the Artillery. Smallest big bang for your tax buck. Nice and 'clean' by way of nukes. (Small area hit. Kinda useless to use a multi-megaton round and vape yourself too.)
And no, I've never seen a tac nuke for Artillery myself. You need a clearance better than mine to see them.. but if we needed them ever, you can bet that would end right quick. But 'Atomic Annie' is still visible to the public, though I bet right now would be poor timing to view her. It being that there's a war on and security is rather 'edgy' at the moment (Who wouldnn't be? Only morons aren't edgy.) But for any FReepers out in Oklahoma near the Lawton/Ft. Sill area... Sill's museum is quite an interesting diversion. And 'Atomic Annie' is worth going to see. Along with Geronimo's gravesite. (He was imprisoned there.) Quite alot of history there.
Laters, Darksheare