File:Animated gun turret.gif

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العربية: رسم متحرك يوضح دورة التحميل لمدفعية بحرية كبيرة. سلسلة من الأبواب المتشابكة تغلق وتفتح الطريق من مخزن المدفعية لمنع وميض من الانتقال في المسار إلى المخزن.
English: An animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch gun turret Mark 1. The figure represents a person 5' 8" high (172 cm). Note that a series of interlocking doors prohibits a flash from coming down from the gunhouse to the magazine.

The red parts of the turret are armoured.

The blue parts of the turret are the revolving mass.
Date (UTC)
Source

Own work using:

  • Source: See for instance Hodges, P: "Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945", Brasseys, London, 1999
Author Emoscopes
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An animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch gun turret Mark 1. The figure represents a person 5' 8" high (172 cm). One cycle takes about 1 min. A series of interlocking doors prevents flash from the gunhouse from reaching the magazine.

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inception

16 March 2007

media type

image/gif

checksum

3eb27051ff8e6812a1ad43112df145a383098796

determination method or standard: SHA-1

data size

118,789 byte

duration

7.700000000000009 second

height

600 pixel

width

700 pixel

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