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To: NFHale

Thanks.


88 posted on 05/14/2018 3:27:44 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

I’ve always had an interest in German railway guns. Massive beasts...

It was more a terror weapon than anything else. Sort of like “look, we can hit you from WAAAAAY over here, and you can’t do a damn thing about it.”

There was guy named Gerald Bull back in the 80s, if I recall correctly, he was contracted by Saddam Hussein to build a “super cannon” for them. He got... interrupted permanently ... before he could finish it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull


89 posted on 05/14/2018 3:38:37 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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