The Army Is Building A Cannon Capable Of Firing From Nashville To NYC | |
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User ID: 77898262 Philippines 10/20/2019 06:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Another stupid money pit by a military going down the drain fast. While other countries are ahead of us in state of the art hypersonic weapons, we are developing a useless cannon that will fire rounds that might cost ONLY $400,000 to $500,000 each shot. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78019970 In a recent interview, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville told Defense News: “A lot of that comes down to cost. If we are able to develop the strategic, long-range cannon system, the rounds may be only $400,000 or $500,000 compared to multimillion-dollar rounds. Cost does matter, and we are concerned about cost. There are some, definitely, physics challenges in doing these types of things, and that is the trade-off.” Atomic Annie probably cost 1/10th of what they'll spend on this project. If we are going to spend $500k to take something out, I want a couple AC130's firing everything they got. BTW, my original degree is Military Engineering from West Point. Guns are cheaper than missiles. That's why arty is still important. For my senior class project, I designed a recoilless 8 inch gun to fire rocket assisted nukes 100 km. The APC chassis could carry more rounds that way than it would if we carried solid fuel missiles. In the early days of the USAF and cold war, the USAF didn't have accurate A2A missiles. So they armed interceptors with MB-1 Genie nuke (1.5 kt yield) tipped A2A missiles. My father is a USAF Korean/Vietnam vet who was a Nav/Bombadier. In Korea, he flew in B-29's and A-26 Invaders on night missions using the SHORAN bomb targeting system. In Vietnam, he flew interdiction missions at night in the AC-130 Spectre as Nav/"Surprise Package" and Black Crow operator. It was an early version of night vision and FLIR. They would orbit above 10,000 ft (out of range of SA-7 SAM's) and pick off VC targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail. They used to 20mm vulcan cannons for anti-personnel, 40mm bofors on trucks and the 105mm M102 howitzer (recoiless) on armored vehicles. When I worked at STL, I worked with Physicists, Engineers and Operators on C4S integration testing for remote sensing of WMD's. Visited LLNL, LANL and of course many "area's" North of the Las Vegas HQ. You are born with the truth, then taught a lie. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78097673 Greece 10/20/2019 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | +[- 78096920:MV80MTY3Njc2Xzc1NzQ1MzU0XzY2QzFFOEM4] Quoting: Perseus -haha, kid 58 yo reading military matters and history from my 13 and also artillery man (when you want to talk about hellfire on enemys head you ask the men for the job, artillery men, like napoleon ;) do you like all types of music as long as its played very loud? i like rock, quitar gods players preferably without vocals, very loud but not only, i also listen psychedelic music not necessarily loud sometimes in backround as i read glp |
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