The V-3 gun was somewhat smaller than the Bull guns like Project Babylon. The Bull guns were designed as an alternate method of orbiting small satellites and were intended to be much larger and longer ranged (750km or LEO for the smaller 'Baby Babylon' gun)than the comparatively small and short ranged V-3.
Bull did build a couple of smaller test guns, but never did finish a full-up implementation of his design. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > Still pikers, the Germans were actually building this thing in WWII. > (RAF bomber command killed the "London Gun") but a smaller version was > used to shoot at the channel ports after D-Day. > > V-3 "London Gun" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon > > Lots of information at the bottom of this page, (with pictures for the > Java enabled). > http://www.nat-military-museum.lu/pageshtml/museumspecial.php > > Stephen Moore wrote: >> Gonz wrote: >> >> >>> Well, if you want to really get into that range, take a look at this beast: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon >>> >>> It was supposed to be a 1 meter gun (about 39 inches)!! >>> >>> rg >>> >> Not quite so big as the Saddam gun, but this one actually saw service >> (of a sort) during WWII: >> >> http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/railgun/Content/Railwayguns/German/Dora%20index.htm >> >> Seriously large projectiles... >> >> Stephen Moore >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
