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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

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Babylon: The Biggest Gun Anyone Has Ever Thought to Build

In 19 88, sedam hussein signs a contract with gerald bull to produce more normal artillery. But he also has a contract to make the gun of his dreams: Project Babylon. The full sized big babylon barrel would have been a hundred and 56 meters in length, with a one meter bore. In total, it would have weighed 15 hundred and ten tons,. far too big to be transportable, and so instead would have been mounted at a forty five degree angle on a hillside.

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