# Talk:28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno"

The barrel length in the infobox is 10.401 m. That's only 40 times 26 cm rather than 28 cm.  In other words, it is only 37 calibers for a 28 cm gun.  What's going on here?  Gene Nygaard (talk) 12:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Figure given in infobox is bore length. Apparently Germany used total barrel length to get the "40 calibers" : 11.2 m / 28.3 cm = 39.58 Rcbutcher (talk) 12:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

"Twenty guns, from the battleships Braunschweig, Hessen, Preussen, Deutschland, Schlesien, and Schleswig-Holstein were mounted on the railroad and firing platform (Eisenbahn und Bettungsschiessgerüst) (E. u. B.) mounts successfully used by other German railroad guns.[" - so 20 guns were taken from 6 ships armed with 4 guns each (that would be 24 guns), from which precise ships? Also considering the fact that units "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 20 railway guns could be produced from these last three ships available! 87.145.94.44 (talk)