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- From: Brian Douglass <anasaz!briand@anasazi.com>
- Subject: Re: Secret Weapons Flops Flops
- Message-ID: <Bzs8vA.LK7@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
- References: <BzM9zn.MKK@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:57 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Brian Douglass <anasaz!briand@anasazi.com>
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- In article <BzM9zn.MKK@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> dave pierson <pierson@empror.enet.dec.com> writes:
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- >From dave pierson <pierson@empror.enet.dec.com>
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- >Back again, sniping at Secret Weapons Video. Down to their usual form. Subject
- >this week was "flops, weapons that failed....)
- >Lotsa misinformation about the Paris Gun of WWI (at minimum, their were two, not
- >one and NONE of the film footage appeared to be of the actual gun. That last
- >I would not mention, if that were all. "Failed due to breech wear", nope,
- >failed due to counterbattery fire forcing moves, and loss of front line two
- >attacks.
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- What I remember reading about this gun, is that Krupp determined what the
- barrel wear would be per shot, and cast shells of ever increasing size to
- match the increased bore size due to use. Because of the tremendous
- breech pressures, and powder composition, the barrel wear was extensive.
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- As to counterbattery, while allied searches searched extensively for the
- weapons, they never could find them. And eventually their own wear put
- them out of action.
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- As to footage, apparently the Germans did an excellant job at destroying
- the guns, diagrams and any and all photos, save one or two. That someone
- had found motion footage of the gun in action would have been a gold mine.
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