Project Babylon began life as three superguns; two full-sized Big Babylon 1000mm calibre guns and a prototype 350mm calibre gun called Baby Babylon. The full-size Big Babylon barrel would have ...

Project Babylon was Saddam Hussein’s audacious plan to build the world’s largest artillery piece in the 1980s. Its intended use: launching satellites - or devastating projectiles. Canadian ...

One of the barrel segments of the Iraqi space gun project. Iraq’s supergun effort was called Project Babylon and ran from 1988-1990. Out of possibly four different models of super guns planned ...

He manufactured the smallest gun of the project, Baby Babylon, and components for the Big Babylon, which was to be big enough to fire projectiles three feet across. According to Park, Bull ...

In 1988, he decided it was the right time to finish what he started long ago: building a working space gun. He managed to convince Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to fund Project Babylon ...