Talk:Amiens Gun

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There were only two types of 28 cm railroad guns built by the Germans during World War I. The SK L/40 "Bruno" and the K L/40 "Kurfürst". The Amiens gun has been identified as the former by Guy François in his Eisenbahnartillerie: Histoire de l'artillerie lourd sur voie ferrée allemande des origines à 1945. Paris: Editions Histoire et Fortifications, 2006, p. 31. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvment

This article could probably benefit from being rewritten in a more chronological order. The current structure past the lead talks about the unveiling of the captured weapon in Australia first, before talking about the capture (second, fourth, and fifth sections), or providing detailed information about the weapon (the closest the article appears to get is the firing sequence in the third section).

There also appears to be little information about the weapon's design, fabrication, and its history pre-souvenir. The first two may be coverable by a small summary section and a {{main}} link to the article on the gun's type.

There are a number of external links in the text of the article, 'pretending' to be wikilinks. These should be removed from the body of the article (per WP:ELPOINTS #2), and replaced with wikilinks where possible. -- saberwyn 05:32, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Rubbish about the gun being from SMS Hessen =

"Hessen", "Schlesien" and "Schleswig-Holstein" must have kept their main armament as they were in service with the Reichsmarine after WWI and Germany was not allowed to construct any heavy piece of artillery according to the Versailles treaty! I can therefore not understand how one of the guns of SMS Hessen could be made into this railway gun 87.145.94.44 (talk)