Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships. In recent[when?] naval usage, a barbette is a protective...

The barbette ship was a type of ironclad warship that was built by several navies between the 1860s and 1890s. The defining characteristic was the use...

Look up barbette in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement. Barbette may also refer to: HMAS Barbette (P 97),...

Barbette Stanley Spaeth is an American academic who is an associate professor at College of William and Mary, and is an expert in Roman mythology. She...

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Barbette for the barbette HMS Barbette was the French privateer Vaillant, launched in 1801 that the...

1973), stage name Barbette, was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas. Barbette attained great popularity...

Barbette Mountain is 3,072-metre (10,079-foot) summit located on the shared border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Barbette Mountain is situated...

HMAS Barbette (P 97) was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian...

Paul Barbette (5 February 1620 in Strasbourg – buried 10 March 1665 in Amsterdam) was a celebrated Dutch physician. After finishing his medicine studies...

disappearing carriages or pedestal (a.k.a. barbette) mountings, and during World War II many were remounted on shielded barbette carriages. Most of the weapons not...

on low-angle barbette mountings. From 1919, 19 long-range two-gun batteries were built using the M1895 on an M1917 long-range barbette carriage. Almost...

mounted on the barbette, the fort's highest level, where they had wide angles of fire and could fire down on approaching ships. The barbette was also more...

Mil Mi-24 gunship for the role. It carries a single gun in an undernose barbette, plus external loads carried on pylons beneath stub wings. In 1972, following...

appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette. It is the first part of The Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in Orphée...

design and had their main armament in barbettes, although the adoption of armoured, rotating gunhouses over the barbettes gradually led to them being called...

were mounted on three types of carriages—a front-pintle barbette carriage, a center-pintle barbette carriage, and a casemate carriage. All of these carriages...

waterline 12-inch (305 mm) armoured belt that extended between the end barbettes. Their decks ranged in thickness between 1 inch (25 mm) and 4 inches with...

with increased freeboard and a gun at each end in barbettes. – stricken 1903. Furieux (1883) barbette ship 5,925 tons. Similar to Tonnant for the same...

barbette to abreast the rear main-gun barbette. It was 4 inches (102 mm) thick from there to the stern while the portion abreast the forward barbette...

mounted on the barbette, the fort's highest level, where they had wide angles of fire and could fire down on approaching ships. The barbette was also more...

Army-designed M1919 guns were built and deployed by 1927 in two-gun batteries on barbette carriages in the harbor defenses of Boston (Fort Duvall), New York City...

gun barbette M4 1943–1948 Battery 121 2 16-inch (406 mm) Navy MkIIMI gun barbette M4 1943–1948 Pennington 2 16-inch (406 mm) howitzer M1920 barbette M1920...

active BCN 520 2 12-inch gun M1895 long-range barbette M1917 1944–1947 BCN 230 2 6-inch gun M1 shielded barbette M4 Not armed unnamed 4 155 mm gun M1918 towed...

barbette to the centre of 'Y' barbette. Oddly, it was reduced to 9 in (229 mm) abreast 'A' barbette. A 6 in (152 mm) extension ran from 'A' barbette forward...

Navy captured her in June 1805. The Navy took her into service as HMS Barbette but never commissioned her or fitted her for sea. It sold her for breaking...

NR-23 23 mm guns. The next prototype, designated Yak-26-3, had a tail barbette with two more such guns, but it was removed altogether after testing. An...

NR-23 Two NR-23 cannons in the tail barbette of the Il-28 bomber. Type Single-barrel Autocannon Place of origin Soviet Union Production history Variants...

ISSN 0169-8834. LCCN 2003055913. Malandra, W. W. (2013). "Iran". In Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions...

Simon (1995). Early Roman Armies. Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-513-6. Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (1996). The Roman goddess Ceres. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-77693-4...

from shore emplacements. The barbette was lighter than the turret, needing less machinery and no roof armor. Some barbettes were stripped of their armor...