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The Boulton Paul Defiant and the naval Blackburn Roc were two late-1930s British fighter aircraft that carried their armament in turrets giving them a wide range of fire including upwards ; the fire of several fighters could then be brought to bear on a target together.
The armament of warships also changed with the invention of the rotating barbettes and turrets, which allowed the guns to be aimed independently of the direction of the ship and allowed a smaller number of larger guns to be carried.
The angle turrets on the second floor are carried on three plain corbels and do not show at all in the inside of the building.
The maps carried over from SOCOM have undergone minor changes such as turrets and breaches being added, daytime maps being switched to night and some paths being blocked, while others have been opened.
Larger and later dreadnought battleships carried superimposed or superfiring turrets ( i. e. one turret mounted higher than and firing over those in front of and below it ).
In time the number of turrets carried and the number of guns mounted increased.
The power of the US 75 mm HE round used in the M3 75 mm was found to be markedly superior, and a number of Churchills in operation in Italy had guns scavenged from Sherman tanks and fitted to their turrets to give the Churchill NA75 ( NA coming from " North Africa " where the conversions were carried out ).

turrets and four
These ships displaced 1, 850 tons and were armed with eight guns in four twin turrets and four torpedo tubes.
These had four turrets mounting two 30. 5 cm guns arranged in two turrets either end, with the inner turret able to fire over the outer.
It also featured two retractable / rotating artillery turrets as well as four field guns firing from side bunkers (" Casemates de Bourges ") and two retractable twin Hotchkiss machine gun turrets.
The front entrance was on the west front, which was embellished with four towers or turrets, and the great hall in the medieval tradition was on the east side of the courtyard, where the Painted Hall remains the focus of the house to this day.
The stair turrets are topped with spirelets and the central section is topped by a gable which contains four lancet windows topped by two round quatrefoil windows surmounted by a mandorla containing Christ in Majesty.
Each tower was of four stories, and was originally capped by four turrets about above ground level.
One of the four corner turrets contains the staircase, but the other three provided extra accommodation rooms at each level.
The aircraft, four of the final production B. VIIs, had to be taken out of storage and specially modified by removing the mid-upper gun turrets to mimic 617 Squadron's special aircraft, and cost £ 130 per hour to run, which amounted to a tenth of the film's costs.
It is often surmounted by a mural crown with five or four turrets.
The first prototype was further enhanced with four smaller turrets, two with 37 mm guns and two with machine guns.
Howl's castle is a tall, black building with four thin turrets.
The B-29 Superfortress, introduced later in the war brought the innovation of four remotely operated twin-gun turrets on its fuselage, controlled through an analog computer sighting system sighted from any of a trio of hemispherical clear-glazed stations, with only the rear tail gunner position on the plane directly manned by a crewmember.
The new palace, secondary in the king's interest to Henry's Whitehall Palace, was constructed between 1531 and 1536 in the red-brick Tudor style around four courtyards: its gatehouse ( illustration ) survives on the north side, flanked by polygonal turrets with mock battlements, fitted with Georgian sash windows.
In previous battleship designs, the primary battery often consisted of four large caliber guns in two turrets, one in the front of the ship, and one aft.
Jean of Estampes builds surprising it house of entry in the shape of keep, confined of four turrets and crowned of a covered way, like the tower.
The tower is a large, square building with four corner turrets, located about 80 metres above sea level.
It is made of red bricks and granite and a four turrets with a central clock tower.
In the corners, above roof level, four turrets serve as stabilizing anchors.
The rectangular fortification consists of two towers, a single gate and two watch turrets in the four corners.
It is decorated with over 25 arches and two small towers ( each with four corner turrets ) rising above the road surface.

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The grave, about half-way between his home and the blue turrets of a small church, rose above the forms and spaces of gently undisciplined pastures of green, the sounds of birds, the silence of other graves and the casual paths through small forests.
Some of the thirty-two round towers and eight turrets are still preserved to this day.
To avoid listing to the side, turrets are usually located at the centre of the vehicle on vehicles that are capable of amphibious operations.
Today, missiles ( generally mounted on similar turrets ) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns.
Today, missiles ( generally mounted on similar turrets ) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns.
The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.
It was heavily fortified with concrete walls and turrets of T-34, Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks.
William Smith's designs were amended by Prince Albert, who took a close interest in details such as turrets and windows.
At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.
The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work with turrets, gargoyles, and battlements.
Some M4s made for the Engineer Corps had the blades fitted permanently and the turrets removed.
The second batch of the class gave the guns high-angle turrets for anti-aircraft warfare, and the oxygen-fueled ' Long Lance ' Type 93 torpedo.
These were followed by the J Class and L class destroyers, with six guns in twin turrets and eight torpedo tubes.
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.
Elaborate and showy dishes were the result, such as tourte parmerienne which was a pastry dish made to look like a castle with chicken-drumstick turrets coated with gold leaf.
At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.
A Lancaster without turrets could fly faster and be much more maneuverable.
In response, many HMMWVs have been fitted with basic gun shields or turrets, as was the case with M113 APCs after they were first deployed in Vietnam.
The Eagle can be fitted with a wide assortment of armaments which can be manually or remotely operated turrets.

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