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Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.
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Aug 26, 1990 · Gerald Vincent Bull, the world's greatest artillery expert, did not die alone. As the 62-year-old scientist fell to the floor, his lifetime obsession died with him: the dream of building a...
Oct 17, 2005 · Gerald Vincent Bull, the world's greatest artillery expert, did not die alone. As the 62-year-old scientist fell to the floor, his lifetime obsession died with him: the dream of building a...
Jan 23, 2008 · Gerald Vincent Bull, engineer and ballistics expert (born 9 March 1928 in North Bay, ON; died 22 March 1990 in Brussels, Belgium). He studied at the University of Toronto ’s Institute for Aerospace Studies. At the time, he was the youngest person to ever receive a PhD from the university.
Feb 12, 1991 · They'd been monitoring his every move. Yet as he drove to his Brussels apartment on March 22nd, 1990, Dr. Gerald Vincent Bull had no idea that tonight he was the target of a hit squad.
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Mar 21, 2018 · In March of 1990, on the eve of the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein’s top weapons scientist, Gerald Bull, was hard at work on a secret supergun when he was assassinated in Belgium. The prime suspects were the world’s premier spy agencies: Mossad, MI6 and the CIA — but the killer was never caught.
Today more than two hundred G-5 155mm howitzers exist within the arsenals of Iraq. The gun is capable of firing a shell some 40 kilometers, greater than any modern artillery of its type. The G-5 and its ammunition employ one of Bull's favourite techniques.
