How is a "gun platform" defined?

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Spartan198

I was looking at the R2B: Return to Base page and it lists numerous aircraft, helicopters, and ships as "gun platforms", even ones that don't carry any IMFDb-approved armament (like the B-2 stealth bomber) or don't appear to have any onboard weapons at all (a helicopter carrier).

Furthermore, the author just simply identifies the platform (e.g., an F-15 fighter) instead of identifying the actual gun on said gun platform.

Is there a defined standard here as to what constitutes a gun platform other than "it has a weapon on it"?

I thought he did ID the M61 in the F-15.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

I thought he did ID the M61 in the F-15.

I looked at it again and, yeah, he did. I missed it the first time. For all intents and purposes, the "gun platform" section on the page seems to only be for identifying the aircraft and ships themselves, which I'm sure is not our department.

[SPEMack618]

Yeah, can someone answer me this, I thought we were suppose to limit pages to weapons that could be employed by an idividual rifle company.

ie. mortars, crew served machines gun, and recoiless rifles would be the biggest we went.

So where do vulcan cannons and five inch naval gun come into play?

[Rockwolf66]

Originally Posted by SPEMack618

Yeah, can someone answer me this, I thought we were suppose to limit pages to weapons that could be employed by an idividual rifle company.

ie. mortars, crew served machines gun, and recoiless rifles would be the biggest we went.

So where do vulcan cannons and five inch naval gun come into play?

We list the Vulcan Cannon as there is at least one of them in a Canadian Film Armory. You can see it in XXX or Death Race.

[funkychinaman]

From the rules:

"Though we do list a variety of weapons in the individual movie/TV/anime/Videogame pages, that's just for the sake of being 100% complete for that page. With the exception of grenades (which we do allow), the only weapons which merit an individual page in the GUNS Category are any individual or crew served weapon that fires in a DIRECT FIRE role. Thus an RPG-7 qualifies as does an M134 Minigun. A grenade launcher is also used in the direct fire role. Though a flamethrower is not a firearm, it fires it's payload in a direct fire role (i.e. aimed directly line of sight at the item/person to be destroyed). What we do not allow are weapons which are too large to be operated by either an individual or small crew or are used primarily as indirect fire delivery systems. This disqualifies fuel air bombs, all air dropped bombs, mortars, artillery, IEDs, most explosive ordnance (other than a commonly issued grenade), cruise missiles, or the guns on a Naval battleship. Even the M230 Chain Gun has been used by crews in direct fire roles (not mounted on a helicopter nose) (at least one AC-130 Spectre Gunship has fired an M230 from a side firing platform, manned by the aircraft's gunners). This rule applies to individual pages in the Guns Category. Feel free to identify ANY military weapons system that you can verify on the movie or television pages. The pages have "Gun Platform" sections just for that purpose, which allows us to denote tactical military vehicles, boats or aircraft which possess a primary (and sometimes secondary) offensive armament.? [emphasis mine]