Demolish Scratchwood Services Using HMS Belfast's 6 Inch Guns

HMS Belfast is a WW2 light cruiser that's permanently on display on the River Thames in London. It's equipped with a formidable array of 6 inch guns which have as their permanent target the Scratchwood Services cafe on the M1 motorway on the outer edge of north London. (see link for details)

Scratchwood is of no particular merit other than to present itself as a suitable target for the spectacular demolition event which would be the outcome of the HMS Belfast firing its primary weapons. Being one of His Royal Highness's Royal Navy ships, I have do doubt that the weapons and their explosive shells are kept in pristine condition ready for any eventual need to fire at Scratchwood.

This would be an event of some celebration, with the trajectory pathway cleared of its population in case of any unfortunate shortfalls.

A public holiday would be declared, with the opportunity to be part of the large crowds that witnessed the firing of the guns and the corresponding impacts being shown on large video screens.

Pieces of the Scratchwood rubble would be sold off to canny souvenir hunters, with the resulting funds used to secure a rebuilding programme - the replacement perhaps put just out of range, and HMS Belfast's Guns targetted at another location.