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Gerald Bull - super gun engineer, mysteriously murdered (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It was clearly that shifty s.o.b behind him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What’s a super gun?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Can launch very heavy objects to very high altitudes. Some engineers would like to use them for assisting payloads into orbit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Mysteriously murdered? he pissed off so many different countries the only mystery is how he lived as long as he did before Saddam's people / Mossad / Iran / Turkey / US intelligence assassinated him.