Could I get one of these with a C&R ?

[EL1227]

Sunday humor ... MOA be damned.



Guns.com -
The US Army’s Nuclear Cannon: Atomic Annie

Big gun engineer Bob Schwartz at Picatinny Arsenal came up with a design that borrowed heavily from the German’s Krupp-made K5 11-inch railway guns, but modified to be moved on roads by a pair of huge tractors. This gun, labeled the M65 and nicknamed ‘Atomic Annie’, wound up being the largest road-mobile artillery the US ever put into production at some 84-feet long, and a total weight of 83-tons. The 38.5-foot long barrel had a 280mm bore, some 11-inches across.

If so, I wonder if Lee makes a reloading press ?

The round that gave Atomic Annie her nuclear nickname, the W9 warhead, was 11-inches wide, 55 long and weighed 803-pounds. It used 110-pounds of enriched weapons grade uranium, arranged in an advanced ‘ring and bullet’ system that collided when fired and set the device on a 15-kiloton chain reaction by the time it hit the target. This was roughly the same size explosion as the Hiroshima bomb, just in a much smaller package.

 

[Machodoc]

Lee has a press for that, but the dies are on back order.

 

[ma_deuce]

Then Mr. Schwartz went on to design the nuclear hand grenade.

 

[Allen65]

A squib round from that thing would have been pretty bad news for the crew. I didn't know before that those warheads were actually initiated on firing rather than fuzed.

 

[TapRackBang]

A squib round from that thing would have been pretty bad news for the crew. I didn't know before that those warheads were actually initiated on firing rather than fuzed.

Don't worry, they used a really, really long string on the trigger.

 

[RegularJay]

They very recently moved out the one that had been on display at APG for decades.

 

[Smitch521]

I can't imagine how they ever thought such a weapon would be useful. One word- Airplane.

 

[SWO Daddy]

I can't imagine how they ever thought such a weapon would be useful. One word- Airplane.

Korean peninsula....

 

[Arcamm]

AIM had those quite a while back, but $250,000.00 for UPS shipping killed it for me.

Plus the darn thing is only a single shot. They never made one in semi.

 

[Smitch521]

Korean peninsula....

I wonder how many were ever deployed there.

 

[photoracer]

They very recently moved out the one that had been on display at APG for decades.

That's too bad. I used to visit APG on a regular basis to maintain some computer equipment they had in the early 90's. Always went by the museum to walk around and if I was lucky Dr. Atwater was there and we would talk about some military issue from history or about some weapon in the museum. A great place to have lunch.