cannons
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Watch A Bowling Ball Get Shot Out Of A Cannon And Smashed Into Pieces
Video: Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a…
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Five Ancient Cannons Rescued From Blackbeard’s Sunken Ship
Looking like something straight off Davy Jones’s ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean, five cannons saw air for the very first time in almost 300 years yesterday as they were lifted from what’s believed to be legendary pirate Blackbeard’s sunken ship.
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Check Out This Awesome Image Of The US Marines Firing Artillery At Night
These are the US Marines with Lima Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment. This is how I imagine some battle in Tatooine in the next Star Wars. They are firing Lightweight Howitzers during a night exercise. This is how the US Marines wish you a Merry Christmas, people. [Flickr]
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Monster Machines: US Army Finally Puts A Giant Laser Cannon On A Truck
It’s been 114 years since Orson Welles first described the nefarious “Heat Ray” in The War of the Worlds. And finally — finally — the US military is on the cusp of deploying a mobile high-energy weapon of its very own. Luckily, it’s designed to fry incoming artillery and mortar threats, not the whole of…