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Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of " superguns ". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert Gerald Bull .
Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990 [1]) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein 's government in Iraq.
The biggest gun ever designed could have put Iraq at the centre of space exploration, but its story is one of unfulfilled genius, military secrets and murder.
10 Σεπ 2006 · As experts see what is left of Saddam Hussein’s weapons program, they are getting a picture of the obsessive martial mind that ran Iraq for 25 years.
14 Ιαν 2024 · Indeed, within Project Babylon, the Iraqis cooperated with prominent Canadian artillery expert Gerald Bull to develop the so-called ‘super gun’: a 1,000mm artillery piece expected to be capable of reaching a range of 750km.
20 Φεβ 2020 · An insider's account of Project Babylon, the plan to build the largest gun in the world for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It's a story of science, deception and murder.
11 Απρ 2017 · But Big Babylon never made it to Iraq, writes William Park for the BBC. It was part of a failed “supergun” project that sounds like it was could be straight out of the pages of a Bond novel....
