Terrifyingly powerful weapons like giant guns had ended up in museums on Earth with the rise of rocket artillery and missiles.
The 203 mm 2S7M self-propelled gun was the largest-caliber artillery piece still in service.
War burned through money, always demanding attention to efficiency and cost.
But compared with the higher costs of rocket artillery and missiles, giant guns still had some advantages.
Of course, the main thing was that giant guns were cool enough!
Rockets and missiles launching amid fire and thick smoke certainly could not match the spectacle of a giant gun shaking the earth as it fired.
When the drone found a suitable target, Herad had the spectators in the square move at least fifteen meters away.
After confirming that the surrounding area was clear, he nodded to the Goblin engineer.
"All right, open fire!"
At his command, the Goblin engineer immediately unlocked the cover with a key, then pressed the red firing button.
The instant he pressed the firing button, the vehicle jolted violently, followed by a tremendous boom like muffled thunder.
Then gray smoke enveloped the area around the vehicle.
It was dust kicked up by the muzzle blast.
Hearing the chaotic complaints outside, Herad suspected that a fifteen-meter safety distance was not quite enough.
The muzzle blast probably would not hurt anyone.
But this dust storm was a real nuisance!
The desert lacked everything except dust.
While people complained about how much dust the shot had raised, the enormous shell had already flown into the stratosphere and was still climbing.
For a shell to travel far, flying level simply would not work.
Only by first flying high could it trace a parabola into the distance.
That was also why long-range artillery always fired with its muzzle pointed at the sky.
As the shell flew