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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,

    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,

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

  3. Ahab Said,

    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,

    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,

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

  6. anon Said,

    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,

    [...] 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,

    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?