How the Mastermind Behind South Africa's G5 Howitzer Was Assassinated: Why Gerald Bull Had to Go
On March 22, 1990, five bullets from a silenced pistol ended the life of Dr. Gerald Bull outside his Brussels apartment. The killers left $20,000 in cash untouched in his pocket. This wasn't a robbery—it was a highly coordinated, professional state-sanctioned execution. Dr. Gerald Bull was an obsessive engineering genius who built the devastating GC-45 howitzer, which later became the backbone of South Africa's legendary G5 Howitzer. When the South African Defence Force (SADF) faced an extreme artillery gap against Soviet-supplied hardware during the Angolan Bush War (Operation Savannah), it was Gerald Bull's technology that completely broke the UN arms embargo and shifted the balance of power in Southern Africa. But Bull didn't stop there. Driven by a lifelong obsession to build a "Space Gun," he took millions from Saddam Hussein to launch Project Babylon—a secret Iraqi program to build an absolute supergun capable of launching payloads up to 1,000 km away. In doing so, the brilliant but politically reckless scientist crossed a lethal red line. Who pulled the trigger? Was it Mossad, the CIA, or MI6? Discover the dark history of the international arms trade, the secret alliance between Armscor and the Space Research Corporation, and how Bull's own weapons ended up facing American forces during the Gulf War. If you enjoy deep dives into cold war covert history, military tech breakthroughs, and forgotten geopolitical cover-ups, make sure to like, comment with your thoughts on who ordered the hit, and subscribe to Sabotaging Africa for more. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Execution on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 00:45 - The Youngest PhD: Who Was Gerald Bull? 02:00 - Project HARP: Shooting for the Edge of Space 02:50 - Inventing the GC-45 & Breaking Distance Records 04:05 - South Africa’s Artillery Crisis: Operation Savannah 05:00 - Smuggling 30,000 Shells: Armscor & The Embargo 05:50 - The Birth of the Deadly G5 Howitzer 06:35 - Arrest, Prison, and Exile to Brussels 07:45 - Supplying Iraq and China: The Multi-Sided Arms Dealer 08:35 - Project Babylon: Saddam Hussein’s Giant Supergun 09:35 - Crossing Israel's Red Line & Mossad's Warnings 11:00 - The Break-Ins and Shadowy Tradecraft 11:25 - March 22, 1990: The Assassination Team Strikes 12:20 - The Disinformation Campaign & Solved Files 13:10 - Historical Irony: The G5 Outranging the US in the Gulf War 14:55 - The Tragic Legacy of a Reckless Genius #GeraldBull #G5Howitzer #MilitaryHistory #ColdWar #ProjectBabylon #Mossad #SADF #HistoryDocumentary
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