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su·per·gun

 (so͞o′pər-gŭn′)
n.
An extremely large, cannonlike gun designed to shoot projectiles over long distances or to launch satellites and spacecraft into orbit without a propulsion or guidance system, as is needed with a missile.
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supergun

(ˈsuːpəˌɡʌn)
n
(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) any extremely powerful gun
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It also frustrated Saddam's bid to build a supergun which could target Israel.
(2) Lepak was the name of the antiaircraft supergun wielded by the character Yossarian in Joseph Heller's popular novel Catch-22 (1953).
there was 1990 we supergun Saddam "There was no safety gear and nobody had a hard hat -we just used to wear a woolly hat!
(8.) Julian Barnes, 'A First Look at America's Supergun,' 30 May 2016 (www.wsj .com/ articles/a-first-look-at-americas-super gun-1464359194).
In the 1980s he sold Saddam Hussein on the idea of a supergun, dubbed "Big Babylon," with which Iraq could target the capitols of both Israel and Iran.
Except they were sections of the barrel of a supergun designed by a Canadian professor.
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He also BUILDING HITLER'S SUPERGUN: THE PLOT TO DESTROY LONDON Channel 4, 8pm In the spring of 1943, as Allied bombs rained down on German cities, Adolf Hitler was determined to hit back.
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Employing newly constructed "bombards" (including a supergun that could throw a stone ball weighing more than half a ton), the Ottoman forces breached the outer wall of the fortification in one military campaign; the conquest of the city itself quickly followed.
The newly unveiled 'supergun' from TrackingPoint, which emulates the target-locking technology from jets to turn any rifle into an ultra-accurate sniper gun capable of consistently hitting a target from 1.75 miles away, Fox News reported.
And in November of that year, Ken Livingstone, then a Labour MP, told the Commons of claims that Mark had acted as a fixer on a "Supergun" project.