• Question: have you ever designed your own weapon?

    Asked by branflakes123 to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: James Vokes

      James Vokes answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      No. I don’t know if I’d want to.

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      Other than a spud gun – no!

      Military weapon systems are REALLY expensive and complicated. They take teams of people and quite a long time to design and build.

      ……..Maybe my next job will be working on a project like that…..

    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:


      Hello Branflakes,

      No, Ive never designed a weapon – Weapon design is the job of a ballistics engineer and designer. Im an aircraft engineer so my job is to fix the planes.

    • Photo: Omar Mustufvi

      Omar Mustufvi answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      I once made my own trebuchet and that was a lot of fun, but no not really…

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