I am sure that RK can confirm that in the Artillery branch of the US Army, when a field artillery piece has been fired faster than it's authorized maximum rate of fire, thereby exceeding its specifications, that it will exhibit a similar characteristic as seen in these photos, known to artillerymen as "tube droop"
Oops, I should have started this antecdote with "this is no BS"... sorry ...I forgot the protocol... <img border="0" alt="[hiha]" title="" src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" />