The United States military wants to build the most powerful cannon ever created, a “super gun” that can fire an explosive shell more than 1,100 miles. Together with new, hypersonic missiles also under development, the super gun will give the U.S. Army the ability to “rip holes in Russian or Chinese layered defenses,” according to a report by the defense industry news site Breaking Defense, published on Tuesday.
Called the “Strategic Long Range Cannon,” the new gun would have the ability to fire a missile over a distance of 1,000 nautical miles, Army Futures Command General John “Mike” Murray told Congress last year, according to the military site Vamboa. That range is the equivalent of 1,150 miles over land.Read More…
