Talk:Project Babylon

message: I have this bit set that at least one of the Babylon guns copied the V-3 concept, with multiple firing chambers arranged at angles up the side of the barrel. Can anyone shed any light on this? Noel (talk) 18:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  V-3 descendant? 

message: >> which were disguised as "petrochemical pressure vessels"
The parts shown are really looking like as they were intended for a pressurized vessel (or a vacuum apparatus) commonly used in the industry and research. I would say the flange is designed for a conflat (CF) copper sealing. One can see the edge that would cut into the copper ring. I don't see how this would be useful for a cannon. Is there some other source? What was actually destroyed by the UN inspectors in Iraq?
Re.: 'Barrel-parts':
I have seen Tubes like this before, during my apprenticeship (I'm a trained engine-fitter), during a visit to the Mannesmann-works in Essen. These things are called 'Mannesmann-tubes'; they are effectively seemless steel-pipes. Mannesmann holds the worldwide patents for them- the production-process is a company-secret. A handful of companies worldwide produce the pipes under license. And- by the way: they are not really used for gun-barrels. They are used for high-pressure oil-pipe-lines...83.71.98.235 01:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  confiscation of the barrel parts 

message: Is this serious?  I request all information that was gleamed from that book to be removed as tom clancy exagerates and just plain makes things up.
:Several of the other references are pretty fishy, too, casting doubt on the whole article Nik42 04:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Novel as a source 

message: However, during the 1991 Gulf War the UK Government announced that the parts it had seized were oil pipes and not parts for a gun, as Iraq had claimed throughout. Does this mean that Iraq claimed they were oil pipes, or that they claimed they were parts for a gun?  I'm guessing the first, but I could see Hussein trying to bluff by claiming to have this gun Nik42 04:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous wording 

message: I've deleted from the article the claim that there were "special alloys discovered during the work on Baby Babylon that were unusually strong and light".  It is unsourced and reads like black project conspiracy theory hokum.  Dricherby (talk) 11:56, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exotic alloys 

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