OMG that thing is a MONSTER! Can you imagine the force inside the barrel of that thing projecting such a heavy object so far staggering.....................so where is the sword to match Hit or Miss's weapon and the person to carry it
well we do use bombs now that are filled with cement instead of explosives to limit the effect of innocents and with the added weight can cause a fairly large hole but lol 7ton shells lol our biggest battleships don't fire rounds like that
It all depends on what you want to do... You want to fight someone at a very close range... Like 3-1 meters a sword is probably better... You want to blow up half of a town...A gun is probaby better... If you matched a swords man up agains my big gun at a range of anything less that 5 miles the crew probably wouldn't even be able to load the round in time before he got under the guns minimum firing range and boarded the gun, promply hacking up everyone... and no the gun can't fire directly up and kill itself and the guy with the sword...
That is probably the legendary 'Big Bertha' which was for real indeed. But as said, they only made 2 before the tremendous costs and man-power required to maintain them hit the Germans back in the face.
They did solve that by coming up with the V1 & V2 ballastic missiles.
Still a most impressive weapon, probably THE baddest ever in artillery.
But back to the topic of this, in comparing guns to swords you'll need to calculate mobility and 1 man operation in it. This is about injury aflicted in close quarters by eighter a sword or a gun.
Have to say, guns beat all melee weapons in gruesome effect now-a days. But I do believe that in a fight between a man with a blade and a man with a gun as the are in close quarters, the man with the sword will win. In close range the sword will do far more damage then a gun in the same situation, and it can be put to use in more varied manners.
But eventually, we haven't dropped the swords in wars and picked up guns for nothing.
he never specified in close quarters however if that were the case I would also agree with you...................its also pretty similar with knives and bats in close quarters for effectiveness vs gun.
If range is unspecified in this, the last 200 years of firearm development will put every sword fighter underground. It isn't the same ballgame. Hell, it isn't the same sport anymore.
The odds have to be fair a bit at least, making the talent of the weapons' wielder a noticeable influence in the fight.
Hences my close quarters example. If else, crap: imagine yourselves a expert swordsman with ages of experience, and then some uneducated army rookie aims this at you, tech distorts the odds:
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Yes it is. The GAU-8 Avenger, 30 mm. 7 barrel gatling cannon.
Did you know they build the gun first, but found out they didn't had a plane able to carry it, so they created the A-10 around it.
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