RE: Mortars

“It was done Garry, infact these ballistic satalite guns were designed by the same guy who designed the hussein gun. “

Well never actually done I don’t think.

“The gun was designed by gun expert Gerald Bull who was killed by the isrealis for not heeding the advise to get out of the hussein gun bussiness “

Don’t really blame the Israelis here actually. From what I have read this Bull guy was obsessed and probably would have built guns for hitler if given the chance. (He just wanted to build guns and didn’t care who he built them for… perhaps instead of killing him the israelis could have financed a super gun for Israel… Hitler was infatuated with big guns… it would have been quite funny to think the biggest gun built was built by the Jews… }> )

“(Maybe you saw this on discovery channel and made a subconcience connection)”

Certainly he was an influence on my suggestion… though he wasn’t the only dabbler with big guns.

“I personally dont think it would have worked to have multiple charges detonating in succesion simply because of all the empty space behind the charge that would cause danerous preasure variations. “

I have seen the remains of a german gun from WWII which had seperate chambers of to the sides containing explosive charges where the projectile was fired by a standard charge and as it passed these side chambers the charges in them fired too. This allowed pressure to be built up in stages instead of with one enormous charge which would immediately split the barrel. The muzzle velocities were aparantly incredible though the payload was rather small. Barrels burst too, though not for every shot as they would with one equivlent charge.

The one gun I do think holds promise would be an electromagnetic gun on the surface of the moon. It could be several km long and be flat along the surface of the moon. As long as there was no mountain or crater in the way with no atmosphere as long as the projectile exceeds the escape velocity it will leave the orbit of the Moon… I think that is only about 4-5km/s or less. We can manage that with very small EM accelerators on earth so on the moon it will be even easier. Potentially a cheap way to send cargo to mars or the asteroid belt.