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Superguns 1854-1991 - Extreme Artillery From the Paris Gun and the V-3 to Iraq's Project Babylon

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: New Vanguard - Artillery

MSRP old price: $18.00


Product Info

Title
Superguns 1854-1991 - Extreme Artillery From the Paris Gun and the V-3 to Iraq's Project Babylon
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2018
Pages
48
Dimensions
7x9.5x.25"
NKG Part #
2147740377
MFG. Part #
OSPNVG265
Type
Softcover
Series
NVG265

Description

Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power, from William Armstrong's 19th-century "monster guns” to the latest research into hypersonic electro-magnetic railguns.

Taking a case study approach, Superguns explains the technology and role of the finest monster weapons of each era. It looks at the 1918 "Wilhelm Gun,” designed to shell Paris from behind the German trenches; the World War II "V-3” gun built to bombard London across the Channel; the Cold War atomic cannons of the US and Soviet Union; and the story of Dr Gerald Bull's HARP program and the Iraqi "Supergun” he designed for Saddam Hussein. Illustrated throughout, this is an authoritative history of the greatest and most ambitious artillery pieces of all time.