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?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what's stopping those people from spinning wildly when they shoot a gun from the air?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >what's stopping those people from spinning wildly when they shoot a gun from the air?
        The weight of a human body.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you are aware of recoil are you not, and the conservation of momentum?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            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.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              attach a small rocket tube to the side of a block and then suspend it from a string before lighting the rocket

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                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"

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                where is that force going dumb dumb? you think it's radiating into the gas molecules?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you cant answer?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The same thing that allows them to fly and maneuver without any wing/control surface.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Impractical absolutely, but it did get some results.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did they fall out of favor?
    Jews killed Gerald Bull, a man who did absolutely nothing wrong

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    100% chance those Turks sodomized each other on top of that gun

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did they fall out of favor?
    Missiles, mostly.

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