Chapter 349 Cosmic Cannon
There is no doubt that in Wen Feng's eyes, Girard Boer is a genius, and he is a genius among geniuses.
If the writing style is correct, the poor Gillard Boole now has a lack of funds for research, so he dares to do anything in the laboratory in Quebec. As long as someone dares to ask for arms, he will provide it with one code, which will of course cause great trouble.
In fact, if we follow the original trajectory of history, Gillard Boole would definitely be in prison, but now it seems that he has just been discovered, and the poor genius scientist is in a lawsuit.
Is this an opportunity?
Wen Feng remembers that as a genius artillery designer, Gillard Boer lacks basic political vision. Even though he suffered a fall in love with this in his early years, he still did not learn from his lesson.
In June 1980, Dr. Boer was charged with smuggling arms and sentenced to six months in prison. His Quebec Space Research Company was forced to declare bankruptcy, and the GC-45 artillery technology was transferred to Austria to continue to develop.
Then until 1982, Boer left the United States and moved to Belgium, and continued to develop advanced long-range artillery technology. He used a 45-caliber 203 mm artillery scheme proposed when he explored the advanced 155 mm artillery technology in the 1970s to design a VSP203 203 mm self-propelled howitzer artillery with a range of 50 kilometers.
Four years later, Wen Feng knew that Dr. Gillard Boer even came to China and invited China to participate in the development of a new 203mm long-range artillery. Not to mention that under the promotion of Gillard Boer, this weapon was later successfully developed. After 33, it was still one of the secret weapons of the Chinese artillery troops. It can be said that with his help, the Chinese artillery industry has moved towards a new **.
Of course, what made Wen Feng even more moved was not this 203mm cannon. Of course, if Gillard Boer had brought it over earlier and then China had a 45-times caliber 203 cannon earlier, Wen Feng would never have any objection. However, Wen Feng's target was the so-called "cosmic cannon" that Gillard Boer had been studying later.
What's the 'cosmic cannon'?
Speaking of this, it was actually related to the later Gulf War, because it involved President Saddam.
It’s not just Wenfeng who saw Gillard Boer’s genius, but actually a thousand-mile horse, and there are always times when people are valued.
Although Dr. Girard Boer's misfortune in Quebec, which made him silent for a while, he was soon attracted by another person, who was Kamal Hussein, the Iraqi Minister of Military Industry, and the son-in-law of President Saddam. He was in charge of the review of Iraq's weapons and equipment manufacturing. He hoped to use Boer's artillery development technology to help Iraq win the Iraqi war, which was of course in a deadlock.
In the next 1985, Iraq received the first batch of arms from Girard Boer - a 200 GHN-45 155mm self-propelled howitzer (Austrian-produced GC-45 gun). In this year, Boer was hired as an adviser by the Iraqi government.
In the following years, with the personal support of Kamal Hussein, Bull successively transformed the Soviet-made 130 mm cannon for the Iraqi military, assisting the Iranian side in developing the 155 mm caliber "Maganon" self-propelled howitzer, and the 210 mm caliber "Efalao" self-propelled howitzer.
Among them, the "Effect" is a giant cannon with a total weight of 48 tons. It uses a 52.5-caliber tube and a range of 57.3 kilometers. This cannon can fire up to 2 shells weighing 120 kilograms per minute. British experts believe that the "Effect" cannon is the best long-range suppression artillery in the world. Its performance and power are no less than any Western artillery of the same type.
In addition, Dr. Gillard Bull also helps Iraq train weapons designers.
It was precisely because of Girard Boer's help that in the late period of the Iraqi-Iraq War, the artillery firepower of the Iraqi army was greatly strengthened, and finally regained the initiative on the battlefield from Iran.
According to statistics, half of the 200,000 officers and soldiers killed in Iran in the Iran-Iraq War were killed in artillery fire.
Girard Boer's talent is indisputable. Because of his outstanding performance and his genius thinking, Iraq shines in the war. In this case, Saddam naturally would never give up him easily.
Iraq had huge funds for oil, and Girard Boer naturally needed a lot of funds to study it. The two sides almost hit it off. So soon in the summer of 1985, Boer signed a new secret contract with Iraq, where he presided over the "Babylon Project" to develop ultra-long-range unconventional weapons that can launch chemical, biological warheads and small artificial satellites - the "Baghdad" cannon.
Wen Feng remembers that the entire plan of the "Baghdad" cannon was divided into two parts: the artillery part and the ammunition part.
The artillery part includes the manufacture of a "small" super artillery sample gun for advanced testing and feasibility assessment caliber of 350 mm, and two for "large" super artillery with a practical caliber of 1 meter.
The ammunition part includes the development of new launch drugs, large power projectiles and multi-stage rockets for guns.
Girard Boer's scientific genius was soon verified again. With high confidentiality, the plan quickly made a breakthrough. A test-type super cannon nicknamed "Babylonian Baby" and a caliber of 350 mm was soon established on the outskirts of Mosul in northern Iraq and tested.
During the shooting test, due to too much charge of the launching medicine, the sealing device of the gun barrel was damaged. Later, after repair, the test could be continued. The results of this test were not known to the results of this test until thirty-three years later, because everyone knew that after the Gulf War, the Saddam regime collapsed, and almost all relevant personnel in the Saddam family were killed in the war. Later, no one knew the result of the "Baghdad" cannon, but at least what the Liao people knew was that it was not used in the Gulf War, so this cannon should have not been studied and made.
As for how to know this cannon, it was written style and later I read many reports and reprinted the British "Defense" monthly magazine published an article titled "Building a Cosmic Cannon for Iraq?", which made him know that Gillard Bull had such a magnificent genius idea.
Wenfeng remembers that the British Gillard Bull was developing a super cannon for Iraq. They claimed that the cannon was powerful. It exaggeratedly could launch satellites or shells into low-level earth orbit, and even develop to a certain stage, and could fully achieve the role of a rocket pusher.
So, the secret of Dr. Boer's helping Iraq to create super cannons was exposed. You can imagine how much lethal it would have to the opponent if such a cannon was used on the military battlefield.
So, the tragedy happened at this time. Everyone knows what Iraq was in the world at that time. It was almost against the entire Western world and was very different from the United States and Israel. The emergence of the "cosmic cannon" immediately made Iraq's opponents very panic, and these opponents include Israel, the United States and almost all European countries...
Shortly after that, Dr. Gillard Bour received an anonymous call, threatening that if he did not immediately cut off relations with Saddam, his life would be lost.
As a genius scientist, Gillard Boole may be extremely knowledgeable, but his sensitivity to politics may be directly negative. In this case, he continued to study without caring, thus leading him to the tragic result.
There are rumors that the assassination was carried out by Israeli special forces. On the evening of March 22, 1990, Bull was shot in front of his residence in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Two assassins fired five shots at the back of his head and back with a 7.65 mm soft pistol. From the shooting situation, he had no chance of survival.
It is conceivable that the genius scientist Gillard Boole fell in a pool of blood, making no sound, and did not alarm anyone.
When the Belgian police later discovered at the scene that Gillard Boole had a secret document placed by the murderer, which marked the European companies in secretly providing parts for Iraq's "super artillery", but the 20,000 US dollars he carried was not short of money. This was obviously a political murder.
When news of Dr. Girard Bour's assassination came out, public opinion was in an uproar. Most people believed that Dr. Bour was a victim of the interests of the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and Iraqi arms groups, and the last one was most likely to be the agents of the Israeli intelligence agency or the Iranian intelligence agency. However, these two countries firmly denied that there was any relationship with Bour's murder. Although the murderer who killed Dr. Bour became a mystery, there was no doubt that the direct cause of Dr. Bour's tragic ending was the super cannons that brought him great honor.
It was then reported that after Dr. Boer's death, a case was seized by the police in several European countries by Iraq's "refining equipment". Experts later estimated that Iraq had obtained 80% of the main materials for manufacturing "Babylonian" cannons. If Western agents did not take action to eliminate Dr. Boer in time, it would have been possible that many countries' troops suffered a painful blow from "Babylonian" cannons in the Gulf War. What would the Gulf War look like at that time? At least it would not make the Americans so easy to win?
When he recalled this, Wen Feng felt sad and unsure, but after reading this newspaper and the genius Gillard Boole, it was enough to make him think a lot. He even thought that if he might install a super cannon on a Chinese aircraft carrier in the future and then bombard it with one shot, he could sweep out all obstacles to sink the enemy's aircraft carrier with one shot. What a shocking result.
When he thought of this, Wen Feng really couldn't help but be moved, so he almost immediately decided to turn this heart into action. China and Southeast Asian waters need a powerful deterrent weapon... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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