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Originally Posted by Lucifer Baphomet  As far as I remember, he planned to, but I don't think it was built.
I do remember construction materials for it being intercepted and making the news |
On furter investigation, I stand corrected..
"After the First Gulf War, the U.N. Special Commission received documents on July 18th, 1991 from Iraq which stated that Iraq had, indeed, constructed a 45-meter sub-size supergun prototype (nicknamed 'Baby Babylon') with a 350-mm bore, and had been designing and importing components to build a much larger (1000-mm bore) version known as 'Babylon'. U.N. teams located and destroyed components of the larger gun, the existing smaller gun, and stored propellant and manufacturing facilities for ammunition and propellant for both. Testimony before the commission from defectors indicated that the gun was too inaccurate to be used for conventional bombardment (the potential range of the Iraqi superguns was estimated to be around 1,000 km) and that the guns were intended for the delivery of WMD against Israel and American targets in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. They further indicated that the Iraqis were researching means of using the superguns to launch weapons designed to destroy or blind hostile spy satellites."