Digitalization can serve also illegal activities

Digitalization can serve also illegal activities

1. Digitalization makes possible to hide illegal weapon sales

When we are talking about weapon trade, there are two ways to export weapons to the countries, what are in the weapon trade ban by the United Nations. That means that selling guns and other weapons to those countries causes punishments, and that will make this kind of thing addictive way to earn illegal money because the weapons are really good merchandise for the businessmen, who sell guns to the dictators of the third world. And there are two ways to make those deals.

Another is that the weapons would be sold directly to that nation, and another is that those gun dealers would sell the drawings to those nations, and the digitalization would make possible to send the necessary files to that country by using PDF:s. In this case, the weapon developed would sell the drawings to some actor, who has no ethic or moral way to think will make the plans and instructions, how to make those guns or other weapons themselves.

2. Case: Gerald Bull (1928-1990)

When we are thinking about history, we must remember that the man, whose name was Gerald Bull, sold his skills to South-Africa and Saddam Hussein. The thing, what causes that this man, who was the top artillery specialists and cannon makers in the history did not cause suspects was that this man worked at home. In some stories, man-made plans for the products in his home, and then put them to mail, and this thing kept him away from suspects.

He worked for the US.military, and there were tales, that Bull sold his weapon development skills to the countries, what were worse than South-Africa. Gerald Bull created G5 Howitzer for the South-African military and the success of that cannon caused, that it's still in use.

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

3. Was Bull surrender for hiding things like Saddam's super cannon?

Or actually, he was convicted of the unauthorized weapons sell to the South-Africa for 6 months in prison, because that country was under the weapon sell ban. Or Sometimes I have thought that there is a possibility, that Bull surrendered in purpose, because that 6 months imprisoned could cover more and larger projects, what were covered by this conviction. Gerald Bull died by gunshot in 1990, but there are still questions, that how many Gerald Bulls is in the world even today.

The thing, what makes somebody suspect that kind of things is that South-African 155mm. G6 mobile Howitzer has many similar details with Swedish mobile Howitzer, and there are thoughts that those systems might have made by the same people. But it's possible that South-Africans have modeled those systems themselves.

Thoughts about V-3 "The high-pressure pump" (Hochdruckpumpe, HDT) or "London cannon"

Thoughts about V-3 "The high-pressure pump" (Hochdruckpumpe, HDT)  or "London cannon"

V-3 cannon

V-3 (Vergeltungswaffe 3)was one of the most interesting weapons of the Second World war, and it has been in the base for the modern "super cannons" like Saddam's legendary "Babylon" cannon, what was not actually the multi-chamber cannon. "Babylon" was one kind of giant "Bazooka", and there were plans to shoot Scud-missiles through it. The tube would sink in the water, and then the hatch in the back would open, and the water pressure would pull the rocket out from the tube.

The V-3 was multi-chamber cannon and that kind of artillery equipment have problems with synchronization of the explosives, what is installed in those chambers. In the modern versions of multi-chamber cannons, those explosives are launched behind the ammunition by using computers, and when grenade would pass the chamber, the explosives would detonate one after one, what denies the massive rise of pressure in the tube.

When we are thinking the V-3 weapon it has been installed in one fixed site in northern France, and this was one of the biggest problems in that cannon. If there would be the perfect site for that cannon, would the launch rate increase to 300 grenades in an hour. But that was mean that the base has got perfect layers and lots of men to reload the tube and clean it but in field conditions the fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Bcce-ogQQ

The cannon site at Mimoyecques, northern France (Was V-3 meant for a multi-purpose solution, what could also be used for anti-aircraft purposes?)

In the northern France site were multiple V-3 tubes, and the greatest weakness about this site was that those tubes were fixed, which means that they couldn't turn any direction. When allied located that bunker, they attacked against it by using 5000 kilograms "Tall Boy" bombs. But there were plans to make that weapon more suitable for the field use. In that "field model" there would be the stick in the middle of the tube, and it would be turned by using two trucks or tanks, what was driving circular track.

The idea was to make that weapon collapsible and the tube was planned to take in the fire position in pieces, what would put together, and then that weapon could be turned to direction, where the users would want to turn it.  The real effect of V-3 was mostly psychological. But when the people are looking at the fortress of Northern France they might think that this weapon might be meant for some other purposes. The fear was that the entire city would rounded by this kind of V-3 cannons, and they would be used also as the anti-aircraft artillery, what could cause losses for the allied pilots if they would try to fly across the line of V-3 cannons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon