IMO, the "Gun Platform" section should list guns that do not meet the regular IMFDB standard for inclusion. For example, crew served artillery pieces, tank guns, aircraft cannons, stuff like that. The gun platform section is a relatively new thing that has started being used so there are no standards for it, but we should probably come up with some. For example, I think the sections should still be listed by the gun name rather than the vehicle (we are a weapons, not a vehicle database, and just throwing up a "Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter" entry with no information about what weapon it carries, if any, provides nothing).
This leads on to a bigger discussion, of if we are going to allow listing of gun/weapons platforms, should we make a page for them? If for no other reason than as a place to store a bit of information and pictured so that they can be found by other users, rather than uploading multiple images of the same weapon.
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