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Barbettes are
several types of
gun emplacement in
terrestrial fortifications or on
naval ships. In recent[when?]
naval usage, a
barbette is a protective...
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characteristic was the use of
armored barbettes to
partially protect the ship's main
battery guns,
rather than
heavy gun turrets or
inflexible box batteries...
- carriages, with
early installations on
barbette mountings. All of the
weapons not in the
Philippines (except four
guns in Canada) were s****ped
during World...
- 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...
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remounted on M1
through M4
shielded barbette carriages at new
locations in two-
gun batteries to
complement the 16-inch
guns.
These allowed higher-angle fire...
- Spring, New York.
Rodman guns were
mounted on
three types of carriages—a front-pintle
barbette carriage, a center-pintle
barbette carriage, and a casemate...
- the
gun to
rotate backwards and down
behind a parapet, or into a pit
protected by a wall,
after it was fired; a
small number were
simply barbette mounts...
- The 90 mm
gun M1/M2/M3 was an
American heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank
gun,
playing a role
similar to the
German 8.8cm Flak 18. It had a 3.5 in (90 mm)...
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tiers inside the fort were casemated,
while the
third tier on the roof had
barbette mounts.
Relatively small "tower bastions" of a type
developed by US Army...
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rotating platform inside the
barbette. In the 1890s,
armoured hoods (also
known as "
gun houses") were
added to
barbettes;
these rotated with the platform...
