warfare, to be hull down means that the upper part of a vessel or vehicle is visible, but the main, lower body (hull) is not; the term hull up means that...

Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete...

upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at...

archaic sponson mounting of the main gun preventing the tank from taking a hull-down position, and riveted construction. It was considered by Hans von Luck...

2017. Layton 2013, p. 369 de Kerbrech 2009, p. 195 Layton 2013, p. 372. Hull Down: Reminiscences of Wind-Jammers, Troops and Travellers, p. 279 Anderson...

A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially...

Modified tanks first used in the Normandy Landings Hull-down – Upper part of vehicle is visible, hull is notPages displaying short descriptions of redirect...

barrel, in a hull down position it has very little apparent height and subsequent visual profile to the enemy. It could also lower the hull a further 13...

"heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock. It is used for cleaning or repairing the hull. Before...

Brett Andrew Hull (born August 9, 1964) is a Canadian–American former ice hockey player and general manager, and currently an executive vice president...

and Roy (1881).[citation needed] According to John Gunther, Hull's father had tracked down and killed a man because of a blood feud. His mother was a descendant...

Hull Kingston Rovers (often abbreviated to Hull KR) are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. The club play...

The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...

and this limited the extent to which the IS-3 could take advantage of hull-down positions. The IS-3's pointed prow, so called pike nose, earned it the...

to take full advantage of reclining the vehicle up to ten degrees in a hull-down position. For security reasons early prototypes had a canvas screen covering...

stake in the business in 2006, valuing it at about £90m, Hull and two fellow directors stepped down from the business's board in 2008 after the group made...

Hull Football Club, commonly referred to as Hull or Hull F.C., is a professional rugby league club based in West Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England...

HMP Hull is a Category B men's local prison located in Kingston upon Hull in England. The term 'local' means that this prison holds people on remand to...

armored fighting vehicle (AFV), defilade is synonymous with a hull-down or turret-down position. Defilade is also used to refer to a position on the reverse...

accommodation ladder A portable flight of steps down a ship's side. accommodation ship A ship or hull used as housing, generally when there is a lack...

higher within the turret. The lower hull position relative to the gun may allow better protection in the hull-down position. Another advantage is that...

BMP-1 is unable to engage targets using the 2A28 "Grom" gun from some hull-down positions due to its limited depression, making it vulnerable to enemy...

A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity...

ground or at the top of a ridge, where a vehicle may be able to adopt a hull-down position. If the overwatching unit is in a position to fire over advancing...

depression for Western tanks is -10, which allows for better usage of hull-down tactics). Later models added vertical stabilization to make firing on...

when fired, which limits the ability to cover terrain by fire from a hull-down position on a reverse slope. As with most tanks of that generation, the...

London 0 Hull 4 is the debut album by The Housemartins, released in June 1986. It contains the singles "Flag Day" (#124 UK), "Sheep" (#54 UK), "Happy Hour"...

pilots of the Battle of Britain, in which he was shot down and killed. From a farming family, Hull's early years were spent in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa...

tanks and infliction of nearly 200 casualties. A Churchill tank in a hull down defensive position made a particular contribution to Allied success. In...

AA Mk II Crusader AA tank variant mounting a triple Oerlikon gun in a hull-down position, 19 July 1944 Crusader ARV Crusader self-propelled gun of the...