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If I lived in England, I know where I would be on June 25th, 2011. I'd be at the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset. They bill the place as the world's largest tank museum and might be right, and they've got some pretty rare machines too. During regular days the machine hosts plenty of exhibitions, and even tank rides, but this June is Tankfest. This 2 day festival will include British Army demonstrations, and late model gear, combat demonstrations and, in a nod towards the ongoing operations in Libya, a mock battle set in 1943 Tunisia. Some big iron will be there, Tiger tanks, and a rare British assault gun developed towards the end of WW2, the 78 ton Tortoise.
The following video is from Wonkarar007's channel and shows Tankfest 2008.
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It looks to me that when cannon were just getting popular, gunners were already juiced up to get more than one shot off before reloading. There seems to be many ways to get there also, as this 3 shot experimental cannon from Henry the VIII's time, now in the Royal Armouries, took the volley gun approach.
The gun that really gets me going though is this 3 shot revolver cannon. I found this picture on Wikimedia Commons, and am not quite sure what or where it came from, but suspect it's in France somewhere, and possibly in the 1952 film, Hôtel des Invalides. If so, it's probably in the Musée de l'Armée. Very unique gun!