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To: Ford Fairlane
The 30 cm gun for the BOLO program late 80's to early 90's was better, also developed by Rheinmetall.

That's freakin' BIG. Do you have any links with pics?

59 posted on 11/20/2002 7:57:34 PM PST by thatdewd
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To: thatdewd
I don't know of any off the top of my head, I might have some on disk somewhere.

All that was actually assembled was the chassis

The engineers working on it were mostly right out of college & had read all of the BOLO series by Keith Laumer& the Hammer's Slammers books by David Drake, they were a bunch of sci fi junkies

A lot of the development was coordinated by FMC/United Defence, GE & CAT used a bunch of the data to punch the AC locomotives up to 6000 HP

They were also considering a railgun instead of the 30 cm gun.

60 posted on 11/20/2002 8:10:44 PM PST by Ford Fairlane
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