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Is there a conventional meaning for "one-ton gun"? [1] I had thought it meant something like a naval gun that fires a one-ton shell, but the article says one was smuggled into Iran in order to assassinate a specific dude. So that suggests that the gun itself weighed 1 ton (= mobile artillery piece I guess). Does that sound accurate? It seems like a weird thing to have done, even ignoring the political and moral aspects of such a hit. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 03:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
I searched for "one-ton gun" on google, and all I could find was that article, so it seems like a bunch of journalists copying one another. However, according to a comment on a Reddit post by u/LimfjordOysters, it is "a gun mounted on a pick-up, with a heavy bomb attached meant for self-destruction." still kinda confusing. It's also not very smart to trust random Redditors, but this was the best I could find. 777burger user talk contribs 04:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Including the explosives, the bespoke device weighed one ton, and was smuggled into Iran in small pieces over several months.[2] So it simply means a device that includes a gun (and a bomb to destruct the device after the killing), weighing one ton, and not any specific type of gun. -- Lambiam 11:30, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
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Is there a conventional meaning for "one-ton gun"? [1] I had thought it meant something like a naval gun that fires a one-ton shell, but the article says one was smuggled into Iran in order to assassinate a specific dude. So that suggests that the gun itself weighed 1 ton (= mobile artillery piece I guess). Does that sound accurate? It seems like a weird thing to have done, even ignoring the political and moral aspects of such a hit. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 03:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
I searched for "one-ton gun" on google, and all I could find was that article, so it seems like a bunch of journalists copying one another. However, according to a comment on a Reddit post by u/LimfjordOysters, it is "a gun mounted on a pick-up, with a heavy bomb attached meant for self-destruction." still kinda confusing. It's also not very smart to trust random Redditors, but this was the best I could find. 777burger user talk contribs 04:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Including the explosives, the bespoke device weighed one ton, and was smuggled into Iran in small pieces over several months.[2] So it simply means a device that includes a gun (and a bomb to destruct the device after the killing), weighing one ton, and not any specific type of gun. -- Lambiam 11:30, 11 February 2021 (UTC)