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Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 64 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Chain shot but it has to be fired from a double barrel cannon

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    If you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    i had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Thing is, the cannon ball IS the pressure valve. And since one of them will invariably go faster than the other one, the whole thing will be even less unpredictable with one half of the chain still in the barrel

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Or why not load them linearly into a single barrel. It'd shoot out straight but would likely develop asymmetries and build up a moment of inertia eventually resulting in the bolas motion they're likely intending.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure they fired chain shot from single barreled cannon. On ships, they have two cannonballs connected with a chain and they powder the barrel and load them both in the barrel, then when they fire it the balls spread out and it takes down rigging and masts on ships.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    They did, but I love how unpredictable the double barrel cannon was and that the inventor thought it was a success

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I never even knew about it thanks for the link will have to check it out. Seems if you didn't fire at exactly the same time the gunner crew would get wasted, which was not uncommon back then in any case. Being a cannon gunner was not a great job. Early exploding shot was really dangerous too.

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