Show A GUN uncle sam having bad a taste of war Is preparing for any experience ot he kind which may visit upon him eastern papers tell of n the future a monster gun now building in this country this new weapon will hurl a steel weighing fifty five dounda me length of an aver ago man the enormous distance of twenty four miles with a velocity of nearly feet per second its extreme range Is twenty anve allos at ithe highest point of ats flight the projectile will rise feet the firing point or about item miles in the air taking mount everest as the highest mountain in the world this shell will go nearly four miles above its highest peak the rapidity of fire of this gun is said to be about ten ebors a minute and that it would be possible to fire shells and have them all in the air before the firsts one struck ithe earth twenty tour miles from the gun the time of flight of the projectile Is 3 10 sec aads cads after traveling through this unparalleled distance of the shell has a striking velocity left sufficient to penetrate five inches of steel while its bursting fragments would kill and a regiment of men in no time as designed will rev the new gun the science of gunnery as it will likewise outclass in its tar reaching and qualities all existing types of army affa navy guns now in use by any power this marvelous deadly engine of war Is an improved type of the brown segmental tube wire gun of four and a half inch ical itier the united states government is now testing two of theae and a ten inch of make at sandy hook |