I wonder what the cost per shell was in modern dollars.
The gun barrel became contorted after just a few firings. If it had not and a barrage of five to six shells per day continued, Paris would have been evacuated and a negotiated peace would have ensued.
Blog pimp noob. I’m surprised Humblegunner isn’t after you daily.
You joined in November and only post items from that site. Coincidence? Nope.
Since this type of long range artillery was inconceivable at the time, when the shells started exploding, Parisians feared the German Army was in fact taking the city.
Gerald Bull? Project Babylon?
Well, if you limit criteria to Militarily Deployed Artillery, maybe so, but it was nowhere near the various slightly sub orbital artillery that Gerald Bull developed and successfully fired.
As I recall, they required using gradually increasing projectile sizes to accommodate wear on the barrel.
Of course, the big mystery is what happened to the guns.
I would think the sonic blast would be rather life-threatening, if right next to it.
Put it on a tank and we’re all set.
While the poster might be a “blog pimp noob”, that is a cool site with interesting articles. And you don’t have to clink on the link and read them if you don’t want to!
They don’t believe it was a terror weapon? Sounds like the author may have never had artillery fired at him.