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Just how reliable is the source quoted?

In the article text "The gun had an early form of horizontal sliding-block breech and it fired separate-loading, bagged charges and projectiles." - Sliding wedge breeches had been around in various forms since the 1860s so this one can't be an early one. - Bagged charges don't work with sliding wedge breeches because there's no obturation. One way around this was to use a Broadwell ring but this fell out of favour int he 1890s when smokeless powder and much higher breech pressures became common. The usual German approach was to use bagged propellant with one or more bags inside a cartridge case - this provided the obturation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlie Landships (talk • contribs) 02:24, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]