In the 1890s, armoured hoods (also known as "gun houses") were added to barbettes these rotated with the platform (hence the term "hooded barbette"). Barbettes were an alternative to turrets with a barbette the protection was fixed, and the weapon and crew were on a rotating platform inside the barbette. When this meaning of the word "turret" started being used at the beginning of the 1860s, turrets were normally cylindrical. Rotating gun turrets protect the weapon and its crew as they rotate. A modern gun turret is generally a rotatable weapon mount that houses the crew or mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in some degree of azimuth and elevation (cone of fire). Loading of ammunition is also often done by automatic mechanisms.Ī gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim. JSTOR ( September 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī modern naval gun turret (A French 100 mm naval gun on the Maillé-Brézé pictured) allows firing of the cannons via remote control.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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