Big Cannons!

[toot]

Still would be fun though!

JEFF BAZOS, could afford to shoot it!

 

[nightwolf1974]

Does this count?


100 ton gun video
View attachment 84098
(Not my photo, not me in it)

I've seen that before on Forgotten Weapons. I'll take it!

 

[Whitworth]

Just checked, full powder load was 5cwt or 560lbs for a 2,000 lb shell!

15 of them were made, some were fitted to two Italian battleships, the others were installed in Malta and Gibraltar to counter the Italian ships!

Thought that was a Malta gun. YouTube video on them. Armstrong guns I think.

 

[Captndan]

We didn't need an atomic bomb. That monster would have done the job.

 

[Mknight702]

Thought that was a Malta gun. YouTube video on them. Armstrong guns I think.

Yep, Armstrong 100 ton gun.

 

[nightwolf1974]

 

[nightwolf1974]

Now THAT'S a cannon!

 

[zimmerstutzen]

this lil thang has a 35 inch bore.

 

[steam1993]

I will try and find the photo's/video's and post them here of me working on a couple of 30 pound civil war cannons. Each one takes a 2.5 pound charge.

 

[Commodore Swab]

 

[tom_in_vt]

Wow!

 

[Captndan]

Absolutely cool video!

 

[Appalachian Harry]

Coolest thing I’ve seen today!

 

[SOLANCO]

Me thinks that the wonderful folks at the Park service would likely have a stroke if they heard about this terrific idea.

You KNOW bureaucrats have no sense of adventure, no desire for fun, no joie de vivre and no great liking for the rest of us.

 

[ML48]

Does this count?


100 ton gun video
View attachment 84098
(Not my photo, not me in it)

Didn't they use that at Gettysburg???

 

[nightwolf1974]

Didn't they use that at Gettysburg???

No! It's in Malta.

 

[tom_in_vt]

So cool! I could never afford that lol

 

[Captndan]

The powder alone would cost a fortune. Do they still make the projectiles?

 

[springfield art]

When do they shoot the clown out into a net?