Superguns

Superguns

For the arcade game hardware, see SuperGun. For the 1990s United Kingdom political scandal known as the "Supergun affair", see Arms-to-Iraq.

A supergun is an extraordinarily large artillery piece. This size may be due to a large bore, barrel length or a combination of the two. While early examples tended to have a fairly short range more recent examples sometimes had an extremely high muzzle velocity resulting in a very long range.

Depending on the design they may be used to destroy heavy fortifications or are used to bombard an enemy from extremely long range.