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#3. The Biggest and Most Impractical Gun Ever

 

The Original:

 

M65 Atomic Cannon

 

Nothing spurs an arms race like a big, giant, phallic gun. From the very first moment the cannon was invented, something electric came alive inside the male mind, and from that point on no man could bear to be on the side that didn't have the biggest. This is why, in 1953, the U.S. developed the M65 Atomic Cannon, and nine months later every artilleryman's wife gave birth.

 

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Somehow, it just feels better to spend money on this than health care or education.

 

Look at that shit. It's more than 80 feet long. The shells are 11 inches wide. If we ever get around to building our giant robot, we know exactly where we're mounting that baby.

 

We can't imagine how fast the Soviets worked to build their own, seeing their own testosterone levels dropping at an alarming rate every minute it remained unfinished.

 

The Sad Soviet Copy:

 

2B1 Oka Nuclear Cannon

 

It only took them until 1957, when they banged out this:

 

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"Project Rasputin was a complete success, comrades."

 

BOOM! That barrel is more than 65 feet long. The shells were 16.5 inches across. And with the ability to lob a nuclear warhead 28 miles, you'd think the Soviets might actually have the U.S. beat in this competition.

 

The only issue here, really, is that in the course of making a gun that would restore their manhood, the Russians also made one that would destroy itself after every single shot. The recoil was so massive it tore out the transmission, damaged the drive sprockets (the treads), smashed the gun mounts and basically twisted most of its other parts into an unrecognizable shape.

 

When the gun was first unveiled to the public, Western observers thought it was fake because it was just too cartoonishly big.

 

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Christ, you could use other tanks as ammunition for that thing.

 

Then there was the whole issue of how they were untransportable because the guns were too damned big. And we're betting that if you brought up any of those issues with the gun's designers, they would answer, "Sir, you are missing the point."

 

 

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