Talk:Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

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[edit] Not used on US vessels

I just removed the following line:

On United States vessels it is not used as a deck gun, instead the Bushmaster chain gun is used in its place.

I do not really understand what this says about the Oerlikon: is it used as a "not-deck" gun, or not used at all ? If it is not, this sentence is not really appropriate: we are not going to list all ships and vehicles on which this thing is not used, are we ? Rama 08:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] woefully lacking in detail

The "Oerlikon 20 mm gun" is/was not just one weapon but a whole family of them. I am therefore going to extend this article greatly. -- Cabalamat 21:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Produced by Hudson

The Hudson Motor Car Company built large numbers of Oerlikon guns during WW2 and also was in large part responsible for the re-engineering of them for mass production. The original Swiss versions were practically hand built like fine watches, slow and expensive to produce. Contact the Hudson Essex Terraplane Historical Society for more information. http://www.hudsonclub.org/hethist/hethisthome.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 11:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)