Supergun affair
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The Supergun affair was a 1990 political scandal in the United Kingdom that involved two businesses, Gerald Bull, members of parliament Hal Miller and Nicholas Ridley, the UK's Secret Intelligence Ser
A section of the Iraqi supergun from Imperial War Museum Duxford
Project Babylon
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Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of "superguns". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP
Supergun affair
…cancelled, and Bull turned to military designs, eventually developing the GC-45 howitzer. Some years later, Bull interested Saddam Hussein in funding Project Babylon. The objective of this project is not certain, but one possibility is that it was intended to develop a gun capable of firing an object into orbit…
Two sections of Big Babylon that have been bolted together at Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson, Portsmouth.