A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim...
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The Tucker gun turret was a fast-traversing electrically powered gun turret widely described as having been mounted on World War II bombers and on some...
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turret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Turret may refer to: Turret (architecture), a small tower that projects above the wall of a building Gun turret...
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carry a compact 16-in/50 turret and designed the ships with barbettes too small to accommodate the 16-in/50 Mark 2 three-gun turret that the Bureau of Ordnance...
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A ball turret is a spherical-shaped, altazimuth mount gun turret, fitted to some American-built aircraft during World War II. The name arose from the...
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M60 tank (redirect from M60A1 turret)
develop the Type B compact turret and the XM81E13 gun variant. The M60A1E2 finalized the turret design with the use of a compact turret which reduced exposed...
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On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise...
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hinged parts. Elevation of the gun relies on the upper part of the turret moving relative to the lower part. Oscillating turrets have rarely been used. Their...
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Fjell Fortress (section The main gun turret)
of Fjell Fortress thus remains uncertain as of 2008. To mount the main gun turret at the fortress, it was necessary to dig 17 metres vertically into the...
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Naval artillery (redirect from Naval gun)
the 45-calibre BL 12-inch Mark X gun in five twin gun turrets. These could deliver a broadside of a maximum of eight guns and could be elevated up to +13...
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Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement...
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machine gun'): Used as a vehicle-mounted machine gun for tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles. Utyos-M: Naval twin 12.7 mm machine gun turret (used...
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Mark 16 gun was used in the main batteries of several pre-war and World War II US Navy light cruisers. They were primarily mounted in triple turrets and used...
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aircraft. The Fernbedienbare Drehlafette FDL 131Z remotely-controlled gun turret system used either a single or, more commonly, a pair of MG 131s for dorsal...
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gov.au.[permanent dead link] "4.5 inch Gun Turret". Flickr - Photo Sharing!. 16 April 2006. "4.5 inch Gun Turret". Flickr - Photo Sharing!. 16 April 2006...
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Gun L/54 (full English product name: Bofors 105 mm Automatic Gun L/54 In Turret For Coastal Defence), was a Swedish fully automatic dual purpose gun turret...
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vehicles. However, the highly mobile, power-operated gun turret featured on the Combat Car, the "Tucker Turret", earned the interest of the United States Navy...
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Naval Automatic Gun L/50 (full English name: Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/50 In Naval Twin Turret), also known as Bofors 120 mm gun model 1950 and the...
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interchangeability of the guns, the battleships fitted with the 14-inch/45-caliber guns often had guns of various Marks installed on each turret. In the 1930s, the...
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power-operated turret, mounting a single Lewis gun and propelled by compressed air. The company licensed a French design of an electro-hydraulic four-gun turret which...
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carried their main armament in a fully enclosed casemate rather than a gun turret. Although this limited the field of fire and traverse of the armament...
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M4 Sherman (section Turret)
the previous mechanical design but moved the main 75 mm gun into a fully traversing central turret. One feature, a one-axis gyrostabilizer, was not precise...
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a protective circular armour support for a heavy gun turret. This evolved from earlier forms of gun protection that eventually led to the pre-dreadnought...
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Tail gunner (redirect from Tail gun)
tail gunner is usually associated with a crewman inside a gun turret, the first tail guns were operated from open apertures within the aircraft's fuselage...
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toolholders projecting out to all sides, and thus vaguely resembled a swiveling gun turret. Capstan lathe is the usual name in the UK and Commonwealth, though the...
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14"/50-caliber Mark B guns and was also used for the follow-up South Dakota class. These battleships carried nine guns in three three-gun turrets. The gun was an improvement...
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SMS Leitha (section Gun turret)
Maros. The superstructure was enlarged, and the turret was replaced by a single modern 120mm L/33 gun in a smaller armored mounting. Also, a modern secondary...
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A turret gun is a type of multi-shot hand-held firearm. It is a variation on the percussion revolver, designed with chambers in a drum mounted so it would...
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flat-panel gun turret, designed to reduce its radar signature. In sustained firing operations (Mode III), the gun is operated by a six-person crew: a gun captain...
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Weapon mount (redirect from Coaxial gun)
vehicle. A gun turret protects the crew or mechanism of a weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions. A turret is a rotating...
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