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"A smaller 45-meter, 350 mm caliber gun was completed for testing purposes, and Bull then started work on the "real" PC-2 machine, a gun that was 150 meters lon
by Mankhool 12y ago
"A smaller 45-meter, 350 mm caliber gun was completed for testing purposes, and Bull then started work on the "real" PC-2 machine, a gun that was 150 meters long, weighed 2,100 tonnes, with a bore of one meter (39 inches). It was to be capable of placing a 2,000-kilogram projectile into orbit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
- sirdogealot 12y agoInteresting, that's almost exactly how Isaac Newton surmised gravity if I am not mistaken. I wonder what the dimensions of the gun required to send a payload 8,000 times smaller into orbit would be?