Post and discuss really big guns.
Bombards, railway guns, battleship guns.
Why did they fall out of favor?
Will we see really big guns again in the future?
Really Big Guns
Post and discuss really big guns.
Bombards, railway guns, battleship guns.
Why did they fall out of favor?
Will we see really big guns again in the future?
>turks lay siege to city with said big ass guns
>reinforcements arrive, shenanigans ensue, turks have to retreat briefly
>defenders go out, steal the guns
>turks come back, siege a bit more
>leave
tl;dr: no
No
what's stopping those people from spinning wildly when they shoot a gun from the air?
>what's stopping those people from spinning wildly when they shoot a gun from the air?
The weight of a human body.
you are aware of recoil are you not, and the conservation of momentum?
There's approximately two orders of magnitude difference between
>An adult human with weapon and military pack "Spinning wildly"
and
>The momentum imparted to by the recoil of a shot from a rifle
in an environment with an atmosphere.
attach a small rocket tube to the side of a block and then suspend it from a string before lighting the rocket
How fast do you think a human with military pack would begin to spin after firing a single round from a ww1 Rifle if they were floating suspended in midair? I want an actual answer to what you consider "spinning wildly"
where is that force going dumb dumb? you think it's radiating into the gas molecules?
So you cant answer?
The same thing that allows them to fly and maneuver without any wing/control surface.
Germany sealed the fate of the big cannon, the gustav was so big and impractical that it only ever fired like 50 rounds in combat, and was really only useful for propaganda pieces.
Impractical absolutely, but it did get some results.
>Why did they fall out of favor?
garden gnomes killed Gerald Bull, a man who did absolutely nothing wrong
100% chance those Turks sodomized each other on top of that gun
>Will we see really big guns again in the future?
Technology doesn't always advance and after a large enough breakdown, large bore cannons might see use again simply because the tech to create them will always be widespread as will the fortification tech they're most effective against. Much more likely that we'd lose widespread use of complex electronics than steel and concrete.
>Why did they fall out of favor?
Missiles, mostly.