5. project BabylonBabylon projectIn all these crazy plan of Saddam Hussein's regime, one of the most backward and's will have made a giant cannon for the purposes of the water are shelling from a distance, considering the way more reliable than the air force and the missile will get by that point. But then, the idea really was not originally a Iraq so much as it is from the age of 62 Canada Dr. Gerald Bull. The gun extremely ambitious 130 feet in length designed barrels and will have an estimated range of 600 miles, almost the largest artillery piece in the history of mankind. Considering that Gerald Bull developed weapons to Iraq as Al Fao, then the most powerful artillery pieces in the world with a range of 35 miles away with a 109 pound shell, it seems his calculations will have to be more than mere pipe dreams.However, parts of the infamous supergun has never even smuggled into Iraq, let alone assemble and use to destroy anything. In August 1990, eight containers part will cover the barrel of the gun has been seized in Teesport Docks in Yorkshire, England of all places. Bull has to do less. Two weeks before that, he was found dead in his apartment. It has been doubted by experts of his family and that the Mossad Israeli intelligence received with you.4. Big BerthaBig BerthaBertha Krupp is the owner of the Krupp armaments company, the German weapons manufacturer, from 1902 to 1943. It is in "honor" of his four giant cannons that were used in the German invasion of Belgium at the beginning of the first world war have been named, although the original German name is "Dickie Bertha" which translates to even less flattering "Fat Bertha." It fired 800 kg (9/10 of a ton) the casing as far as eight miles.Although only 12 of them have been used during the war to end all wars, the cannon was also possibly the maxim machine gun, the most important weapons in the conflict. It is extremely effective in destroying the Belgian Fort at places like Liege, particularly Fort Loncin which a class completely destroyed when it hit the ammo dump. This allows the German military to move quickly through Belgium to France and came very close to conquering Paris, thus ensuring that the majority of the war on the Western front would be fought on French soil. But their brief is to highlight, since 1916 the Allies began to reinforce the concrete with steel and the casing may not leave through it very well.
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