Iraq Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/iraq/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:47:51 +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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