Saddam loved his defense technology — the wackier, the better. Take “Baby Babylon,” for instance: “an artillery piece so powerful that it could not only shell his enemies in Tel Aviv and Tehran but also fire a projectile into orbit,” the Times reports.
I would say that Saddams regime was not a model of rationality, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based organization that has studied Mr. Husseins weaponry. He did in some respects share Hitlers fascination with wonder weapons…
Mr. Husseins scientists could not satisfy his craving for wonder weaponry, although they tried often enough.
There was a reported program to create a rail gun, in which electromagnetic pulses would accelerate a projectile to high speeds, research on elaborate multistage rockets and re-entry vehicles, and, before 1991, endless tinkering with weird biological agents. None of it produced anything particularly useful…
Perhaps strangest of all were little Russian armored reconnaissance ground vehicles, somehow evoking Jetsons-style spaceships, made for just one occupant.
And let’s not forget the blinding lasers or the attempted anti-satellite weapons, either.
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How is this any different than the plethora of devices, delivery systems, and weapons being thought up by DARPA?
Mystick, you said what I was going to say. I can’t tell if this is noahmax’s idea of clever parody or not.
So hey, did we find that old supergun? That sucker should go on display in a museum.
re: the Darpa comment, the only difference is that some of Darpa’s tech works. Hitler’s fascination with wonder weapons DID produce rocket engines, after all.
Do some research on a guy by the name of Bull. His specialty was super guns. He was the designer of that gun before he was killed, most likely by the Mossad.
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