And they would anyway be of limited use, because Iraq's arsenal would be enough for only a one-off artillery barrage.

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That's only one small part of the Air Defense Artillery's planning, which has really been going on for weeks.

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The Army said the World War I gun was the largest surviving of all the UK's artillery pieces and one of only 12 surviving in the world.

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