tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post2233446809397947892..comments2024-03-29T10:07:41.792+00:00Comments on Phil's Workbench: Time for the big guns? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-70824847955005464852018-06-20T08:08:11.289+00:002018-06-20T08:08:11.289+00:00Just to let let you know Boche Buster was to short...Just to let let you know Boche Buster was to short range to be used as one of the dover guns but was position to fire on the Germans if they invaded <br />The guns below are some of the British dover guns <br /><br /><br />BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk VII guns<br /><br />BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mks IX–X guns<br /><br />BL 15-inch (381 mm) Mk I guns<br /><br />And later BL 13.5-inch (343 mm) Mk V3d tank factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02489522067625352594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-926817195270565212018-01-29T13:08:04.780+00:002018-01-29T13:08:04.780+00:00"Sadly, the gun is non-operational so there&#..."Sadly, the gun is non-operational so there's no point in stocking up with ammunition with name of your nemesis on popular web forums inscribed on the outside."<br /><br />Aaarrgh! That spoils the fun!<br /><br />Some of us had really been looking forward to "zapping" (insert name of "favourite" forum troll here).<br /><br />Joking aside, I hope the bogies can be swivelled - as I've been led to believe that rail mounted guns were intended to be "aimed" by sticking them on curved track and moving them along until they were pointing in the desired direction.<br /><br />Somehow, though, I'd imagine that a lot of their military "value" might have been psychological - the perception of this "supergun" bearing down on you, capable of chucking projectiles that could wipe out a large area of a city.<br /><br />In practice, of course, the moment something got chucked out of the barrel, those awfully beastly guys on the other side of the Channel / North Sea would have been aware of the thing's existence - and exactly where it was.<br /><br />In next to no time, every one of the Luftwaffe's bombers would have had the thing in their sights.Huw Griffithsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-79153568381641151482018-01-29T06:07:42.993+00:002018-01-29T06:07:42.993+00:00Certainly an interesting item from Oxford rail.
I...Certainly an interesting item from Oxford rail.<br /><br />I suspect illI end up getting one and suspect they'll be rather popular with the amount of crossover potential there is with such a model.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07864021693263981628noreply@blogger.com