HARP Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/harp/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:12:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Iraqi Supergun Section https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/iraqi-supergun-section/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/iraqi-supergun-section/#comments Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:25:28 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5018 This was one of the 26 sections destined to be part of Saddam Hussein’s ‘Project Babylon’ Iraqi supergun project started in the late 80s. The project was the brainchild of Dr Gerald Bull, a Canadian artillery expert who had been involved in the US-Canadian HARP project (High Altitude Research Project) in the sixties. The object […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/iraqi-supergun-section/feed/ 5 HARP Space gun, Barbados https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/harp-space-gun-barbados/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/harp-space-gun-barbados/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:41:36 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3704 Barbados is home to many obvious things; palm trees, beaches, rum and Bajan cuisine, but nobody expects a Cold War relic like the massive HARP space gun. Nor are they likely to stumble across it accidentally. You have to go and find it. The High Altitude Research Project (HARP)ยน was the brainchild of a British […]

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