Maybe to appease this artillery genius. 1968, the Canadian government awarded Dr. Bull the "McGrady Award" with great honor, and the United States passed a secret bill in 1972, giving Dr. Bull the treatment of becoming an American citizen at any time within 10 years. Encouraged, Parr quickly recovered. In the early 1970s, he founded the Quebec Space Research Company of Canada on the basis of his own laboratory, and turned to develop long-range conventional artillery technology.
At that time, the most advanced 155 mm suppression artillery in the world only had a 39-caliber barrel, with a range of only 24 kilometers when launching standard grenades and only 30 kilometers when launching rocket extended-range bombs. In fact, as early as the 1960s, when Dr. Bull was developing the super cannon, he decided that the technology of long barrel and large chamber was an effective means to greatly improve the performance of conventional suppression artillery. This basic principle is clear to all technicians, just whether they can skillfully use it. Rich experience and a talented mind enabled Dr. Bull to design a new type of long-barrel howitzer easily. Shortly after the establishment of the new company, he developed a 45-caliber 155 mm howitzer called GC-45 at 1975.
A good gun needs to be equipped with a good bomb, so Dr. Bull creatively developed MK 10MOD2 155 mm long-range full-caliber Grenade and the world's first long-range full-caliber bottom-discharged bomb. These advanced munitions have broken through the defects of small combat load and poor hit accuracy of rocket extended-range projectiles in the past, and played a vital role in promoting the technological innovation of long-range strike of conventional artillery. In this way, when the 23.5-liter GC-45 155 mm gun with a large bore fired a long-range full-caliber base-bleed projectile, its initial velocity reached 903 m/s and its range reached 39 km. Later, when Dr. Bull used GC-45 gun for shooting test in the Middle East, the maximum range even reached a record 43 kilometers!
1976, the Quebec Space Research Company of Dr. Bull and the Belgian PRB Company jointly established the International Space Research Company in Brussels to continue the detailed design of the GC-45 gun. 1979165438+1October, the international space research company transferred the production license and sales right of GC-45 howitzer to Austrian worster-Alpino company, and since then, the technology of suppressing artillery with 45 times caliber long barrel has spread all over the world. In this way, by the end of 1970s, a large number of variant guns of GC-45, such as GHN45 in Austria, G5 and G6 in South Africa, and ST- 155/45 in Spain, appeared like mushrooms after rain. With his own ability, Dr. Bull started a "45-caliber barrel revolution" in the field of large-caliber suppression artillery in the world, and achieved the first technological leap of western countries 155 mm suppression artillery in half a century, which is a great contribution of Dr. Bull to the development of artillery in the world.
Be locked up and put in prison
As a talented artillery designer, Dr. Bull lacks basic political vision. Even though he stumbled in his early years, he still didn't learn his lesson. 1976 In April, with the secret assistance of a CIA official, Boer signed a contract with South African ordnance company, a state-owned arms manufacturer in South Africa, to export advanced military technologies such as GC-45 155mm howitzer. Unexpectedly,1on August 25th, 977, Parr's company was exposed by the news media because of an accident while transporting artillery shells to South Africa. This incident immediately caused an uproar in the United States, and Dr. Bull was also involved.
1in June, 1980, Dr. Bull was charged with arms smuggling and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. His Quebec space research company was also forced to declare bankruptcy, and GC-45 gun technology was transferred to Austria for further development. After he got out of prison, Bull was a little depressed, but his stubborn personality made him never give up easily. From 65438 to 0982, Boer left the United States and moved to Belgium to continue to develop advanced long-range artillery technology. He used his 45-caliber 203 mm gun scheme put forward in the 1970s when he was exploring 155 mm advanced gun technology to design a VSP203 203 mm self-propelled howitzer with a range of 50 kilometers. 1986, taking the opportunity of academic exchange in China, Dr. Bull invited China to participate in the development of a new 203mm long-range gun. The development of the 203 mm gun, which had been silent for a long time after World War II, reached a new climax with the promotion of Dr. Bull.
From "El Fao" to "Babylonian Baby"
It's a swift horse, and it will always be reused. Dr. Bull's intelligence was once favored by another mysterious figure. This man is Kamal Hussein, Minister of Military Industry of Iraq, son-in-law of President Saddam Hussein. He is in charge of the audit right of Iraq's weapons and equipment manufacturing, hoping to use Bohr's artillery development technology to help Iraq win the deadlocked Iran-Iraq war. 1985, Iraq obtained the first batch of arms from Boer -200 GHN-45 155mm self-propelled howitzer (Austrian GC-45 gun). This year, Bohr was hired as a consultant by the Iraqi government.
In the following years, with the personal support of Kamal Hussein, Bohr successively transformed the Soviet-made 130mm cannon for the Iraqi military, and assisted the Iraqi side in developing the 155mm Maganon self-propelled howitzer and the 2 10mm Erffa Austrian self-propelled howitzer. Among them, "Erffa Ao" is a giant gun with a total combat weight of 48 tons, a barrel diameter of 52.5 times and a range of 57.3 kilometers. This kind of gun can fire at most two shells with a weight of 120kg per minute. British experts believe that "Erffa Ao" artillery is the best long-range suppression artillery in the world. Its performance and power are not inferior to any similar artillery in the west. In addition, Dr. Bull helped Iraq train weapons designers. Thanks to Boer's help, in the late period of the Iran-Iraq war, the artillery firepower of the Iraqi army was greatly strengthened, and finally the battlefield initiative was regained from Iran. According to statistics, half of the 200,000 officers and men killed in the Iran-Iraq war were killed by gunfire.
1In the summer of 985, Bohr signed a new secret contract with Iraq, in which he presided over the "Babylon Project" and developed the "Baghdad" cannon, which is an ultra-long-range unconventional weapon capable of launching biochemical warheads and small satellites. The whole plan is divided into two parts: artillery part and ammunition part. The artillery part includes the manufacture of a "small" super artillery sample gun with a caliber of 350 mm for preliminary test and feasibility evaluation, and two "large" super artillery guns with a caliber of 1 m for actual combat.
The ammunition part includes the development of new propellants, powerful projectiles and multi-stage rockets for guns. Under the condition of high secrecy, the plan quickly made a breakthrough. A 350 mm experimental super cannon nicknamed "Babylonian Baby" was quickly set up and tested outside Mosul suburb in northern Iraq. In the shooting test, the sealing device of gun barrel was damaged due to excessive charge, and the test can be continued after repair.
In Iraq, Dr. Bull found another opportunity to develop super cannons. However, while excited, he soon paid the price-the price of life!
Soul Baghdad
1990 In February, the British "National Defense" published an article entitled "Building a space gun for Iraq? It is pointed out that Bohr is developing a super cannon for Iraq, which can shoot satellites or shells into low-earth orbit. The secret of Dr. Bull's helping Iraq build a super cannon was thus exposed, which made opponents in the western world, especially Iraq, very afraid, and these opponents included Israel, the United States and almost all European countries. ...
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Bull received an anonymous phone call threatening his life if he didn't sever ties with Saddam immediately. The threat soon became a reality. 1On the evening of March 22nd, 990, Bull was shot dead in front of his residence in Brussels, Belgium. Two assassins used his key to open the door and shot him five times in the back of the head with a 7.65 mm miniature pistol. The bull fell in a pool of blood without making a sound or disturbing anyone. The police found at the scene that Bohr had a secret document placed by the murderer, which was marked with a European company that secretly provided parts for Iraq's "super cannon". And Boolean's $20,000 can't be less. This is obviously a political murder. The assassin is a trained professional killer.
The news of Dr. Bull's assassination caused an uproar. Most of them thought that Dr. Bull was the victim of the interests of British, American, South African and Iraqi arms groups, and it was most likely that the agents of Israeli intelligence agencies or Iranian intelligence agencies finally did it. However, the two countries firmly denied that they had anything to do with Boolean's murder. Although the killer of Dr. Bull has become a mystery, there is no doubt that the direct cause of Dr. Bull's tragic ending is the super cannon that brought him great honor.
Later, it was reported that after the death of Dr. Bull, the police in several European countries seized the case of "oil refining equipment" ordered by Iraq. Experts later estimated that Iraq had obtained 80% of the main materials for manufacturing Babylonian artillery. If western agents didn't get rid of Dr. Bull in time, it might become a reality that the multinational forces were beaten to the ground by Babylonian artillery in the Gulf War.