Talk:42 cm Gamma howitzer

Not in service in WWI ?
The article says it was not used in World War I. Then shouldn't it be removed from the German WWI artillery template, and also have the WWI artillery category removed ? As it stands now there is a conflict.Rcbutcher (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell it spent the war on Krupp's proving ground. But since it existed during the war and could have been used had they felt like it, I think that it should remain as is. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

42 cm Kusten-Kanone Modell 1886
Krupp also exhibited a big gun at the 1889 Paris exhibition, but I'm not sure which one it was. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 05:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I was wrong about that, they displayed a large gun in 1867 in Paris (and also in 1876 in Philadelphia--a 14 inch one), and were criticized by the French for their "solely nationalist" exhibition. So, in 1889 in Paris they didn't display any guns. Apparently this was only a temporary restraint for when the expo was on French soil; they saved money for the Chicago exhibition (just kidding, but this 1983 show seems to have cost Krupp one million dollars) where they apparently hoped to get new customers, and apparently did get some, but Latin American ones. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 05:41, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * They also had a 40 cm 80 ton gun exhibited earlier in 1880 at Dusseldorf. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 05:52, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Mörser?
This title isn't clear and unnecessarily uses the German word "Mörser", which is not easily recognisable as "mortar" which is the English word. We WP:USEENGLISH. It should be at 42 cm Gamma mortar. There is the other question about whether, like Big Bertha, this is technically a howitzer rather than a mortar. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:38, 26 May 2020 (UTC)