>>heh... make the gun larger bore, stuff cornish game hens with steel >>ball bearing, freeze them, and then you'll have provided reality to the >>urban legend of the FAA having a cannon with which they fire >>chickens through the widshields of test aircraft. *lol* >The reality of the situation is that we *DO* have a chicken cannon in >Canada for that purpose. >Once again, in the interest of Chrome Book 5 - here we go! Taken from a high-tech weapons discussion on rec.games.frp.cyber

The Chicken Cannon
(a compressed air "heavy" weapon)

HVY . -4 . N . P . (variable) . 1 . 1/3 . 20m . VR . 500eb

This weapon is a smooth-bore, muzzle loading cannon using compressed air as the propellant to fire chickens into aircraft cockpits to test for in-flight survivability. Damage depends on what is loaded into it. A generic chicken, raw, does 3d6 stun damage (soft armor not applicable). A frozen chicken does 5d6 stun damage (soft armor 1/4 SP). Other ammo laods are at the referees discression, but Kraft Dinner (cooked) (or most other pastas) deals 1d3 stun damage with a shotgun pattern of 3 meters at max range. The weapon has a four inch barrel, so a lot of different ammo loads could be used, but generally people have stuck to chickens (rubber - 2d6 dmg or real) and foodstuffs. The weapon is mounted on a tripod or pintle mount and attached to a full-sized air compressor. Demonstrations of this weapon at work can be seen on archival copies of the Canadian Television program "Air Farce".