alvino
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Giancarlo said:That's why the cannon itself is so huge and long.. late Gerald Bull was the one who was the head of the project had experience of trying to launch projectiles into space. He wasn't exactly successful with those programs, but he made some very scary artillery pieces.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/other/supergun.htm
Ahhhh...so that Splinter Cell book wasn't lying when they talked about Gerard Bull and his Babylon Supergun. It looks smaller than I imagined it to be.