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Originally Posted by Gage  Hitler did like to waste his resources on wonder weapons. Didn't Saddam try to build one a few years ago? |
He did. Saddam was gonna blow a big piston down a side-cylinder with explosive, as I understand it, so the supergun itself would have been a giant airgun. Adolf was gonna burn progressive powder charges in side-chambers in a timed sequence. Theoretically I think he expected to throw 600 tons of shells at London a day - but I can only guess where Saddam thought he was going to stick his.
The idea seems to keep coming back as a way of launching stuff suborbitally. Nobody's really made it work yet, but at one time they said that about steam engines and aeroplanes.
Regards,
MikB