- Nov 14, 2010
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Sunday humor ... MOA be damned.
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The US Army’s Nuclear Cannon: Atomic Annie
If so, I wonder if Lee makes a reloading press ?
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.