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The big cannon in Serious Sam was fun. It could bowl cannonballs the size of volkswagons through entire platoons of monsters.
I don't use the big guns a lot unless things get nuts. I'm a pistol/shotgun guy, old school gunslinger shit. I am from Arizona after all.
the A-Bomb.The N-bomb
I am from Arizona after all.Ironic since that's one of the few states in the U.S. where owning all sorts of crazy huge personal cannons, full heavy machine-guns etc is perfectly legal.
Someone once tried to convince me that the Magnum used by Dirty Harry was the BFG of real life pistols…
Ironic since that's one of the few states in the U.S. where owning all sorts of crazy huge personal cannons, full heavy machine-guns etc is perfectly legal.
Or so I believe…
BTW the actual gun and ammunition behind the A-10s cannon is used in various light armored vehicleYeah, a big 30mm Bushmaster might use it, or any number of 30mm autocannons really, but of course 30mm is small biccies in terms of mounted single barrel guns. They all have their own unique applications though. :)
The 280mm atomic cannon was obsolete about the same time it was fielded when every 8 inch (203mm) atomic artillery rounds were made and every artillery piece with an 8 inch barrel was that powerful including the old M115 8 inch howitzer. Except the effective range of the gun wasn't outside the effect of the nuclear ammunition. But Dora is still far bigger.
A 30mm or 35mm Bushmaster on a Light Armored vehicle is capable of killing anything on the battlefield except a Main battle tank. But it doesn't destroy real estate as well without a large caliber cannon. Hence the Stryker AGS 
Third favorite BFG.
I have a personal connection to the AGS knowing the guys who wrote its manual. If I hadn't been invalided out the army ten years ago I probably would have been one of them. :(
Gotta love anti-tank rifles like that Finnish weapon. The Ma Deuce was developed originally as an automatic anti-tank rifle. Russians used their anti-tank rifles in WWII to destroy German tank optics, blinding the crew; or destroying the pins that held the track together even though the rifle could not penetrate the armor of the tank.
why even mount the thing on a turrant if it's going to be locked in place?
I believe there's a swedish "tank" that doesn't have a turret…. the whole thing has to be turned to aim and for vertical adjustments they actually have to pull on their tracks… or something…
And a really big part of that design reasoning was to lower the profile- so it could hide from other tanks and whatever other ground based weapons behind minor rises in the landscape.
Great for avoiding line of sight weaponry on the same level. :)
Makes a smaller target too. And no bother with all that extra weight and infra structure that goes into having a turret.
But with helicopters, anti-tank planes and especially unmanned drones…
Well, it's still a good plan against troops, tanks and other ground based weapons.
This prototype Super heavy U.S. T-28 tank is a monster in a similar style…
The back makes it look like a sports car:
Very, very, very slow with MASSIVE frontal armour.
-Some tend to think that having a turret defines a tank. But that's not so. I believe that it's purpose that defines the beast. Tanks, whether with turret or without, are meant to be able stand front line combat and survive heavy fire, unlike self propelled guns, tank killers, APCs and the rest.
But Bravo can say Yay or Nay to that. :)
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