# Who needs frickin sharks with frickin lasers attached to their heads?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448 "2011-07-27T00:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/21 "2011-07-27T05:47:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Almost like battleship rounds? A ten-inch shell was a standard battleship round a hundred years ago. > > Just to give people some idea here’s a [picture](http://www.freewebs.com/philippineamericanwar/Monadnock%20Unexploded%20shell%20fired%20by%20the%20USS.jpg) of two soldiers standing next to a ten-inch shell. Now imagine firing those off at a rate of three per second. > > The perfect weapon if you were trying to sink Cuba. Try [these](http://www.battleshipyamato.info/weapons.html) on for size. > [@](#): > > Yamato’s nine main guns, mounted in three turrets, were the largest to ever crown a warship. They fired shells 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter, and each armour piercing shell weighed as much as a small car. They also could strike at an unprecedented range of 25 miles (40 km). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/22 "2011-07-27T06:14:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Yamato’s nine main guns, mounted in three turrets, were the largest to ever crown a warship. They fired shells 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter, and each armour piercing shell weighed as much as a small car. They also could strike at an unprecedented range of 25 miles (40 km). Wimpy. Now if you want real firepower you’re talking a German 800mm rail-mounted siege gun. The shells for that were thirty-one inches across and weighed seven tons apiece. Of course that was merely the biggest gun that ever saw combat. The French had a 975mm gun in the 1830’s. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/23 "2011-07-27T06:19:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Wimpy. Now if you want real firepower you’re talking a German 800mm rail-mounted siege gun. The shells for that were thirty-one inches across and weighed seven tons apiece. > > Of course that was merely the biggest gun that ever saw combat. The French had a 975mm gun in the 1830’s. I thought we were talking naval guns - no? ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/24 "2011-07-27T13:36:43Z")
I was section chief on an 8" self propelled howitzer. Thats about 203mm. Those rounds weighed 200 pounds. It had a 100 m. kill radius. The recoil was great enough that the gun had a bull dozer blade on the rear end to be emplaced in the ground to absorb impact. [See here emplaced](http://www.moddb.com/groups/artilleryloversgroup/images/m110-howitzer). 180 rounds a minute! Oh Ya lets make one… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/25 "2011-07-27T13:45:51Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Does it have a laser? No but it _is_ mutated. And very ill-tempered. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/26 "2011-07-27T13:52:45Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > How about a [full-auto grenade launcher?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_19_grenade_launcher) I prefer a more personal interaction; I want my target to have time to say, “Oh, shit,” just before I pull the trigger. Grenades don’t seem to have that personal touch. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448/27 "2011-07-27T15:28:36Z")
[Well, _some_ do…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77uY4FTWwvE) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-needs-frickin-sharks-with-frickin-lasers-attached-to-their-heads/590448.md?page=1)