ATOMIC CANNON

[Hardside65]

02:07 - There´s nothing so quiet than a loaded gun . (H.Heine)

[Lavalambtron]

wtf you wrecked a good video

[timgaylehughes]

go annie go(:

[Rickyrab]

The nuclear warhead fired by Atomic Annie had an explosion about the size of the Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy" - 15 kilotons ("Little Boy" was somewhere between 13 and 18 kilotons).

[sethzky77]

It's now located on Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. I saw it out of the trench, must be at least 15 feet tall and about two train engines long. The words, "Atomic Annie" are painted in white on the barrel. The rest of the cannon is painted army green.

[MrCWilding]

I bet it's good for killing the weeds in the garden though eh? lol

[steelbrzz]

And they all died of cancer....

[confusedCoyote]

We will all glow together when we go...

[Burnz2much]

13 miles.. arty sucked back then. x.O

[Burnz2much]

Hookup!.. Standby!.. Fiya!.. :p miss those days allot.

[ViennasNachos]

They should have used that in Iraq & Afghanistan.

[Procharmo]

Atomic bombs, atomic missiles, atomic guns, atomic rifles. When Cutty Ranks recorded Six Millions way to die. He wasn't joking!!

[1pixle]

haha love the title

[nucleardeath07]

This is interesting and cool but completely unnecessary and already obsolete for the time. A bomber could do the same job and is far more mobile and safer. Missiles were also just starting to come into their time around then as well. But hey, at least we can say we made an atomic cannon :D

[ChromiumSilver]

An air burst trigger would have to be utilized here. the risk of fallout is much too great. 13 miles is not enough to escape the radioactive debri's thrown up upon impact.

I would be certain most of the operating crew died of cancer or other radiation related disease.

[riceicles123]

@ChromiumSilver Actually the radius for fallout of a standard nuclear weapon is around 2-5 miles, you must be thinking about a Hydrogen Bomb.

[Gichnni]

This was like 60 years ago.... Just imagine now what they got at Area 51... It's creepy !

[MrPennyworth007]

you can even see the shell being fired!! how cool is that?

[monkeyman1140]

I'd hate to have a misfire and have the shell land 100 feet from the gun

[thedreamdealer]

Why didn't they mount this on a battleship?

[MrPennyworth007]

@thedreamdealer cause the radiation would still get to the crew on the ship

[TextFreeley]

OMG

[stjepanzero]

holy shit ai cant hear antithing noooooooo plug your ears realy

[melis256]

It is a shame that tactical nuclear weapons are banned...

[carsomedan]

I regret to inform you all that I have lost the original video somewhere in my vast pile of videos and will no longer be able to post the original

[GUNNY89]

i saw atomic annie when i went to aberdeen

[ArmoredSheepdog]

Man, it's too bad they dont have Predator drones dropping those on AlQaida and the Taliban

[kenotooth]

ugh...do you realize how stupid it is to even have thermonuclear weapons?

[mastersduhgree]

@kenotooth Your absolutely right.They would most likely be used in retaliation.Then like hiroshima and nagasaki....deep regret afterwards.Now that they are invented theres and ever growing concern that they will be used as an offensive weapon.Most likely iran.Its actually been an eye opener that russia had never used them in that manner.They seem to possess some humanitarian concern instead of what we honestly expected of them....that was savagery.

[kenotooth]

Indeed. Time should be spent on improving atomic defense, not atomic capability, which it certainly has been. It is completely unnecessary to have atomic weapons, when we are developing laser defensive technologies

[mastersduhgree]

@kenotooth Yes yes ...and we should drop them altogether and make a world wide effort and concentrate on developing a fuel and engine that will replace gasoline and diesel because we cannot deny any longer that they have reached the climax of thier levels.If we do not find a replacement there will be a desperation in agriculture to farm our food supply and transport to markets even just across a county.Can you imagine starvation on a scale that will panic the world?

[jpongsin2002]

lolol

[user92126]

There was 14 of these tests

[rhetrozenberg]

ThanX for sharing this old propaganda piece on the atomic cannon.

[Sweetthang9]

Plug my ears? Yeah, cause it was so loud....

[2Manchu70]

Yeah, I saw this gun when I was stationed at Ft Sill. Interesting idea, but no thanks.

[nodadbad420]

while the troops when to "TAKE POSITION " in the sleep trenches there where intentionally exposed to atomic fall out,,,

[smoky90210]

Atomic Annie is on display about to blocks from my Barracks.

[Sierra688]

A big goof on the original "Anzio Annie" rail gun that tormented the Allies during Operation Shingle.

[muffinman404]

Carsomedan You make good videos

[xRa01]

that gun has only fired once what the video falled to say is it killed all who fired it by radiation

[voodoodanny]

@xRa01 What's your source?

[schopper456]

wtf? is this fake? a camera would survive that? or am i wrong?

[poitertoip]

well it was real footage. im guessing the cameras were destroyed but the film was recordedin a small station miles away.... but it would leave one to question how it captured the footage of the trees bending back. maybe theyre contained in concrete doohickeys.

[8kaki]

no, it's real.. they put camera into steel armour..

[riceicles123]

lol 0:57 "the big gun"

[OnnomonnomonnO]

what are that smoke strips near by place before and during every nuclear explosion? .....(in this video it is on right side from place of attack)

[Zardoz1977]

good question, people can see it before the detonation

[proaudiohd]

They fire little rockets up before the blast. They used the smoke trails as a visual reference to see how the shock wave traveled through the air.

[ozzyscruggs1]

Craftsmanship used to make things to kill lots and lots of other people never ceases to amaze me. I guess not everything is made to last.

Be a real bitch if it jammed in the barrel.

[Boomboomboominmyroom]

Oh shit never thought of that

[Ecselsiour]

This is indeed a fucked up world!

[bombercat123]

yes it sure is

[diegoz2009]

the yield was 16 kt in a 524 Foot Airburst

[speedinginmyporsche]

Fucking gave me a hardon

[SAMPMoviesTFS]

carsomedan, this happened in year of 1953 and cause of some s*** happened when this bomb destroyed, i think it exploded twice as more they expected, they stopped producing atomic cannons in year of 1957, there's no way to buy new one :P

[hrdknox2000]

what was the tonnage/megatonnage of this weapon?

[JRYANG9000]

i can see the cannon as it went out

[KC0TCH]

I have seen this gun, it is on display at the US Army Field Artillery Museum at Fort Sill Oklahoma.

[etranger84]

hm, i cannot see any effect of the shockwave on these smokeflares?!?!

[Nuker1337]

yes there is an effect on the smoke and those rocket trails, you can see that they are moved a few hundred feet due to the shock wave.

[carsomedan]

my favorite part of the movie is when the guy says THE BIG GUN 0:58

[kofkok]

Does anybody know what the little smoke columns on the left side at 2:45 are?

[kofkok]

*edit* I mean right side. sorry Im dyxlesic

[1200strong]

They are smoke rockets for scaling purposes I'm pretty sure.

[bluemonster7754]

The smoke rockets were deployed right before the blast to measure its shockwave velocity. It was the scientist's only way of tracking them during that time.

[kofkok]

Thank you for explaining that. I have always wondered what those were for.

[DangerousSociopath]

Yes. They are smoke flares that are used to measure blast radius and other things. You will often see them in videos of nuclear tests/

[kofkok]

Thanks.

[PepperWhite62]

Dust a few of these Mark VIIII shells off and use them in Iraq and bring our boys home.

[porthpatho78]

Bill O'Reilly visits Youtube?

[PepperWhite62]

What's your plan? To negotiate with Al Quieda?

[porthpatho78]

Isolate them by reengaging with the youth they usually recruit from.

[PepperWhite62]

Interesting concept but it's neccesary to kill to win war.

[porthpatho78]

Somehow I dont think dropping a few nukes is necessarily going to be the best way to go about the task of killing them off though. What about civilian deaths?

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[marmaloon]

That's got to be the nastiest mushroom cloud of all the tests! :eek:

[ExperimentalArmy]

no Castle Bravo is :)

[marmaloon]

You have your favourite; I have mine.

[LukasM86]

just imagine an atomic artillery barrage that would really demoralize the enemy

[carsomedan]

That relly would be a scary thing. BUT COOL!!!

[metalkat77]

@carsomedan And today the actual artillery guns can firer nuclear heads.

[antkiller13]

I'm sure they won't feel a thing

[Fredman5551]

@LukasM86 i think thatll do a little more than just demoralize them, haha

[LukasM86]

@Fredman5551 yeah it would be more like vaporize them. haha

[1polonium210]

Fking awesome! That 280 mm Mark 3 delivered the same explosive force as Fat Man (Nagasaki) or Little Boy (Hiroshima).

[ralucagymnast]

Little boy was 12 kilotons, Fat Man, far more efficient plutonium implosion weapon 22 kilotons Shot Grable-this one- delivered a 15 kiloton artillery shell,developed by Ted Taylor et al. The one unexpected feature of this test was a pre-cursor loading, which was a 500 mile per hour wind over a short area.

[drumerdude5656]

oh shit, dem niggas are fucked

i hate chad hoffman, hack his computer

[KC0TCH]

I have seen Atomic Annie at the US Army Field Artillery Museum at Fort Sill Oklahoma.

She is beautifull.

[drumerdude5656]

dude, this is awesome, not gunna lie =]]]