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Holy Canister Shot Batman!

author Posted by:Sebastian on date Feb 26th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Gun P0rn

Not a new concept in artillery, by any stretch, but there’s some great photography in this video:

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Hat tip to my friend Jason for finding this one.

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tag9 Responses to “Holy Canister Shot Batman!”

  1. Alcibiades McZombie Said,
    February 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    It’s supposed to have an 800 yard range.

    I wonder if it would be legal to mount a blackpowder cannon on a [legally-purchased] tank… Then fire some canister rounds through that.

    It’d probably be easier just to mount a gatling gun… which still would be awesome.

  2. Brad Said,
    February 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Nice. Very reminiscent of the high speed camera shots they do on Mythbusters.

  3. Ahab Said,
    February 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    I wonder how they’d feel about that at my local skeet range.

    Although from a military standpoint, I would have loved to have a round like that for the 76mm on BEAR.

  4. Jared McLaughlin Said,
    February 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am

    I’m not entirely sure why this has taken “research” to develop. AFAIK the M60, with it’s 105mm main gun, had just such a round. I’m not sure if it’s some sort of memory error on my part, but I seem to remember the M1IP’s, which have a 105mm gun, had a selector for APERS-T which is basically the same thing.

    We’d been told they were “researching” how to make these things work in the 120mm. I think they were simply “researching” whether it would work with the Geneva Convention, etc.

  5. Sebastian Said,
    February 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Canister shot is as old as artillery. Most of the research probably went into making the video :)

  6. anon Said,
    February 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    Pretty cool photography. It’s amazing that they can track the thing. Also, you can see the shock wave leading the canister.

  7. Shot gunning from a tank: M1028 | The Firearm Blog Said,
    February 28th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    [...] The M1028 is a 120mm shotgun shell for the M1 tank. The shell holds 1100 10mm tungsten balls. They are apparently lethal up to 700m (765 yards). Here is a video of the shell being fired in slow motion. It shows the shot breaking the sound barrier and the shot pattern (H/T to Sebastian). [...]

  8. me Said,
    March 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    Cool. Only, why was taxpayer money spent to develop this when the Israelis have been manufacturing a 120mm antipersonnel flechette round compatible with NATO-standard 120mm tank guns for 25 years?

    I’m sure this works well and I’m sure it’ll save American lives, but how much cheaper would it have been to buy off-the-shelf from IMI?