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Casemate-mounted 5"/50 caliber gun on the USS North Dakota. A casemate is an armoured structure consisting of a static primary surface incorporating a limited-traverse gun mount: typically, this takes the form of either a gun mounted through a fixed armour plate (typically seen on tank destroyers and assault guns) or a mount consisting of a partial cylinder of armour "sandwiched" between ...
A rail system mounted on top of a SIG SG 550 A dovetail rail on a rifle receiver for mounting a sight. A rail integration system (RIS; also called a rail accessory system (RAS), rail interface system, rail system, mount, base, gun rail, or simply a rail [1]) is a generic term for any standardized attachment system for mounting firearm accessories via bar-like straight brackets (i.e. "rails ...
Two cordite stores, with reinforced concrete walls and a steel rocker delivery system that was used to deliver one 80 kg cordite charge at a time to the gun. (4.6m x 7.75m) Ammunition projectile store containing shells (4.5m x 12.6m) Ventilation room (3.0m x 7.7m) Generator room (4.6m x 10.8m) Fuel store (3.0m x 3.5m) Heating plant (3.1m x 3.4m)
While the well standardized Picatinny rail mount (and its less standardized predecessor the Weaver rail) is most known in the U.S., many European gun manufacturers offer proprietary scope base receiver mounting systems for their guns, for example Sako has tapered dovetails, Tikka use a 17 mm dovetail, [5] and there are other solutions such as ...
Protector Lite is a lightweight version for 7.62 mm machine gun with 200 rounds of ammunition carried. [9] Protector Super Lite Protector Super Lite is the lightest version currently available, and is a lightweight (30 kg), man-portable system that can be operated both remotely and manually.
Ares Incorporated is an American weapons manufacturer and firearms engineering company co-founded by the American weapons inventor and developer Eugene Stoner in 1971. The company is based in Port Clinton, Ohio, and produces fire control systems, turret systems, small arms, automatic cannons and industrial machinery.
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10-inch disappearing gun at Fort Casey, Washington State, USA. See Harbor Defense Command for a list of US forts 1890-1945, most with disappearing guns; Fort Miley, California had two 12-inch rifled guns mounted on Buffington-Crozier disappearing carriages; Battery Chamberlin, Presidio of San Francisco. Four-gun battery, with one of the few ...