Who needs frickin sharks with frickin lasers attached to their heads??

[zoid]

@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 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 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).

[Little_Nemo]

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.

[zoid]

@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?

[Jimson_Jim]

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. 180 rounds a minute! Oh Ya lets make one…

[Inigo_Montoya]

@Encinitas

Does it have a laser?

No but it is mutated. And very ill-tempered.

[LouisB]

@runner pat

How about a full-auto 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.

[silenus]

Well, some do…