Talk:Jaivana cannon
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"Eight people and one elephant were also reportedly killed by the shock wave and many houses collapsed in Jaipur" I have removed the above sentence, as first of all Jaipur was yet to be built at the time which the Jaivana was casts. Apart from that despite of all the myth, the Jaivana has actually been subjected to review by historians/military historians. According to R.S. Khangarot and Praptap Singh Nathawat 'It is proved beyond doubt that the cannon was fired more than once. The cannons which are never fired have a very smooth bore. But it is not so in the case of Jaivana. The barrel has markes inside, which occur after each fire. The recoil of the Jaivana would not have been more than four feet. That this cannon required space as big as a football field to fire becaue if its recould is only a (another) myth.Maharaj Devraj 12:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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The true range of this cannon is likely shorter than even the lowest guesses given. to give an idea of scale, the Iowa class battleship's main armament fires a 16 inch, aerodynamically shaped, 1 ton projectile out of a modern rifled barrel, and reaches a maximum range of 38 kilometers. The idea that a round iron ball propelled by crude black powder could attain greater range is laughable.
Please note that the projectile of the Iowa class battleship is 1 ton (1,000 KGs) as you say, while the Iron ball is only 50 KGs, there is a substantial difference there. For this reason I will remove your presumptuous opinions. Visit Jaigarth yourself and perhaps proper scientific calculations could be performed through some kind of simulation program. Maharaj Devraj 12:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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