Talk:5"/38 caliber gun

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[edit] Asessment

Large, organised with pictures and tables. Worthy of a B, though barely since it lacks bibliography and references. If this gun was on Fletcher-class destroyers it served then with the Hellenic and Turkish navy well into the 1990's. I'll check this out later Ikokki 11:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe that suffient references are now made. Might even qualify for A rating.--MChew (talk) 17:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Title?

Should the metric conversion really be in the title of the article?
—wwoods 19:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It's one of the least wise/intelligent/appropriate things I've seen on Wikipedia, but I didn't want to offend anybody by changing it all by myself. IMHO we should get rid of the "(127 mm)". Lou Sander 20:48, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I noted it a while ago as well, and I thought the name was a bit as silly as changing Otobreda 76 mm to Otobreda 76 mm (3 inch). There was lengthy discussion (that I didn't notice until it was over) at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships/Archive03#Gun_article_names. You may want to reread that before changing the name, or bring up the question to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships since they have discussed it before. --Dual Freq 21:44, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting premission to do a mojor expansion of this article

I'm an old retired Fire Control Technician. Since it was the policy on many ships to cross train people in the Ordnance Division, I have also taken Gunner's Mate courses. And I have served as part of a Mk 12 gun crew, although only during practice shoots.

With your permission, I would like to expand this article, and make some minor corrections. For example the Mk 12 5"/38cal Gun is only the equipment inside the trunnions. Everything outside the trunnions is called the mount. There are Mk 21 mounts, Mk 30 mounts, Mk 28 mounts, and etc. They are mounts that carry one or two Mk 12 5"/38cal Gun Assemblies.

I would like to have a section dedicated just to the Mk 12 Gun Assembly. Including the slide, housing, breech bloc, recoil system, counter recoil system, power rammer, barrel, safety equipment, ammunition, and etc.

Then I would like to describe the various mount types. There is the single open pedestal, single open base ring, single enclosed base ring, and twin enclosed base ring.

I hope I can help. FTC Gerry 23:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Permission granted.Fl295 00:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC)