My afternoon with Atomic Annie

[dvandom]

Overlooking I-70 on the way to Junction City is an old piece of artillery that was only in active service for a couple of years, and was never used in combat...thankfully. Atomic Annie, a towed artillery designed to lob nuclear bombs up to 20 miles away in a hypothetical European conflict. Today, I finally remembered to bring along a camera on a day I deemed nice enough for a climb uphill, and took some pictures. Given the somewhat slower load times on dvandom.com these days (due to massive pingspam from porn sites, as mentioned earlier), here's just links:

• From the bottom.
  
• Signage 1, Signage 2.
  
• M1 Howitzer.
  
• M3 Howitzer.
  
• View from the top.
  
• Composite pic of Annie.
  
• Rear view, with mock shell.
  
• One last shot of Annie.
  

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Somewhere I've got a video clip of an atomic shell being fired via howitzer (obviously just a test) -- pretty nifty. And I still don't think its placement on the Mormon trail is a coincidence. Rather...a warning....

Still, I've never actually gone up and taken a look at the cannon on I-70, but passed it a million times. Thanks for the look up there....

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

...

Dude! I've seen that on Mail Call, but getting to go up close. Sweet!

[tvsgrady.livejournal.com]

Neat!

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

And you'd want it to be 20 miles away, too.

Never use a grenade you can't toss further than its blast radius.