Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

The conversion was relatively simple ; the launch unit was placed on the extreme rear of the cargo platform at the rear of the M548 carrier, and the tracking system placed inside the cabin at the front of the vehicle, projecting through the roof through one of the turret bustles.

The couple settled at the manor of Huntingfield, described as " enchanting, with a legend for every turret ... A splendid gallery ran the length of the house, the Great Hall was built around six massive oaks which supported the roof as they grew ".

A doorway in the turret opens out some two metres above the present roof line.

267 was to have used FuG 8 and FuG 5 radio sets, with the most notable external changes being a 2 metre long rod antenna mounted on the turret roof and a Sternantenna D (" Star antenna D "), mounted on an insulated base ( the 104mm Antennenfuss Nr.

268 used FuG 7 and FuG 5 radios with a 2 metre rod antenna mounted on the turret roof and a 1. 4 metre rod antenna mounted on the rear deck.

* BT-7M ( 1938, prototypes designated A-8 ; sometimes referred to as BT-8 ): new V-2 diesel engine replacing earlier gasoline engines, three DT machine guns: coaxial, in P-40 AA mount on roof and in a ball-mount on turret rear.

The turret roof was the same thickness as the hull roof and engine deck:.

On the roof of the turret is an ATGM launcher, on Russian vehicles this fires AT-5 Spandrel missiles, but on export models it normally fires AT-4 Spigot missiles.

In the turret, the tank commander sat beneath his roof hatch, while the gunner was situated to the left of the gun breech and the loader to the right.

The hotel had a mansard roof and a central turret.

A single Fritz-X passed through the roof of " C " turret and killed the turret crew and a damage control party when it exploded in the lower ammunition handling room.

Bathurst's Courthouse ( c. 1860 ) designed by colonial architect James Barnet stands in a prominent city position and is neo-classical style with octagonal Renaissance dome, a doric portico with pediment, octagonal tower with turret, stone facings and brick pilasters, a colonnade of Doric pillars, a sage-green roof, red bricks, yellow bricks and long lines of sash windows.

A turret can have a circular top with crenellations as seen in the picture at right, a pointed roof, or other kind of apex.

Period photographs show some modifications to the basic design, namely the omission of the bow machine gun, re-installed on a pintle mount in the roof of the turret, and a small searchlight fitted in front of the commander ’ s copula.

These were stored in 6-round boxes: three on the hull side wall, 8 boxes in the turret overhang and one ready box above the gun on the turret roof.

The gunner's position, looking down from the turret roof.

* Leclerc T6 to T8: have an added air conditioning system on the back roof of the turret, and an extra splash guard added to the front hull.

The church is built of flint with stone mullions and edges, and has an attractive tiled roof but no tower or turret.

ERA bricks are also located on the turret roof and provide protection from top-attack weapons.

The secondary armament consisted of two. 30cal Browning machine guns, one in the bow of the hull and one coaxial machine gun in the turret, and a. 50cal Browning M2 on a pintle mount on the turret roof.

If the ammunition storage area is hit, a blow-off panel in the turret roof would direct an explosion upwards away from the crew compartment.

The system is activated when the laser warning system alerts the tank commander, who responds by pressing a button on his control panel which automatically orients the turret towards the threat.

The small gun turret in the upper nose blister was replaced with a. 30 in ( 7. 62 mm ) machine gun, its barrel run through a flexible ball socket ; the separate bombadier's window was replaced with a flat plex-i-glass panel in the lower center of the nose combing.

For example, a main battle tank will usually have the heaviest armour on the hull front and the turret, lighter armour on the sides of the hull and the thinnest armour on the top and bottom of the tank.

These weapons may be mounted on a pintle, affixed directly to the vehicle or placed in a turret or cupola.

The greater the recoil a weapon on an AFV is, the larger the turret ring needs to be.

* 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the, killing 47 sailors.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Early on, the Soviets built the KV-2, a variant of the KV-1 heavy tank with a short-barreled 152 mm howitzer mounted in an oversized turret.

The absence of a turret also meant that tank destroyers could be manufactured significantly cheaper, faster and more easily than the tanks on which they were based and fou8nd particular favor when production resoureces were lacking.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' mounting installed just aft of the Otobreda 76 mm | 76 mm gun turret on the Japanese Self Defense Force Asagiri class destroyer DD 158 Umigiri, photographed 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

It has a large flat-plate turret with slightly chamfered sides, vertical rear and very chmfered front and a large A-frame crane on the front of the turret.

One theory is that this was caused by a design fault in the ammunition loading system to the main gun turrets, so that an enemy hit on the turret set off an explosion in the magazine, thus sinking the ship.

Batch operations are performed similar as to on a single stage press, but to switch dies, the turret is simply rotated, placing another die in position.

On many IFVs, a coaxial machine gun is mounted on the turret along with the main armament.

The ships had ten 30. 5 cm guns, losing two of the center side turrets but gaining an additional turret astern on the centre line.

Between 1908 and 1912 two Moltke class battlecruisers were constructed, adding an extra turret on the centre line astern, raised above the aft turret, but still using 28 cm guns.

** A gun turret explodes on the U. S. battleship Iowa, killing 47 crew members.

This vehicle is fitted with a Halon fire suppression system and a weapons mount similar to that on the M109 turret, usually mounting a Mk 19 grenade launcher for local defense against infantry and light armored vehicles.

Sometimes these unspent propellant charges remained on the turret floor due to the emergencies at the time, and in either case, all of the remaining serviceable 152mm shells still remained caseless, albeit attached to their warheads, and sleeved into a re-usable white nine-ply nylon bag which was form-fitted to hold the propellant portion of the shell.

The tank mounted a huge auto-loader turret on top of a very short chassis, so short that there was no room for a driver in the front hull.

Ordnance wise, only one rotating gun turret ( the turret ), out of the two rotating artillery turrets on the fort, was partially manned.