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Show Our Largest Mobile Gun Hurls Projectile 14 Miles The world's largest mobile gun is the TJ. S. army's 240-mm. howitzer, howit-zer, which is towed by a truck, carrying some of its parts, at speeds up to 40 miles an hour, according ac-cording to Collier's. Primarily designed de-signed to destroy fortifications, it has a 27-foot barrel and shoots a 360-pound projectile more than 14 miles. England's, largest mobile gun fires a 100-pound shell only eight miles, and Germany's counterpart, also using a 100-pound shell, has a range of only seven miles. |