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Claims in opening paragraph.

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The claims about the prejudicial beliefs, political pressure, and the gun's potential need to be backed up by some sort of source. An article about the beliefs/pressure that led to the project being scrapped, or possibly some reference to a recognized expert on such weapons (to validate the claims of great potential), could be useful. Otherwise, we should find some way of rewording this opening paragraph. Nihixul 00:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The initial claim that the Birch guns were the first practical SPGs is just rubbish. By the time the Birch guns first appeared the 75 French Saint-Chamond heavy SPGs were being held in reserve as a force in being - they would later be deployed in 1940. The Americans had built a whole series of "motorised gun carriages" - the Mark II with 155mm gun made it to production before the end of WW2. The Holt designed Mark X and Christie SPGs with 155mm guns/8 inch howitzers were considered for production immediately before the US Army artillery board turned back to the horse. The British built 48 Gun Carriers which could mount and fire a 6inch howitzer - the British Army had no clue how to use them. There are articles on Landships II (landships.info) on all of these. Charlie Landships (talk) 09:14, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]