Yup, without wanting to belabour things, the guy's correct, in the specific example of towed artillery ... even their self-propelled stuff is considerably newer.

While I'm sure there are newer, better towed guns out there, I'm unsure what makes a piece with decades of real-life reliability testing a bad gun?

Might also be worth noting with regard to the 240mm howitzer M1 that nobody makes howitzers that big any more. Most nations top out at 155mm these days - that packs plenty of punch and is considerably more mobile than the monster WWII howitzers, the WWII-era 155mm howitzer being just under half the weight of the 240mm. It's just that Taiwan, with purpose-built bunkers for those M1s, simply doesn't need that mobility.

Yup, without wanting to belabour things, the guy's correct, in the specific example of towed artillery ... even their self-propelled stuff is considerably newer.

While I'm sure there are newer, better towed guns out there, I'm unsure what makes a piece with decades of real-life reliability testing a bad gun?