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“Every turret on a ship, you know, from gun battleships all the way through now with autonomous lidar you see on modern ships, all that comes from the turret that’s sitting in that tank behind ...
The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained for the first time in years while undergoing conservation efforts at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in ...
Amphibious tank which sank during disastrous Operation Smash D-Day rehearsals in 1944 that left six troops dead 'was damaged by reckless divers who knocked off turret and cannon' ...
The bulge found on the turret of a modern tank's main gun is actually a straightforward device ... They're even found worldwide on the 76mm anti-ship missile defense guns used on naval ships ...
From the Blitzkrieg to the Eastern Front, tanks were vital tools of conquest—for good or evil. These five WWII tanks packed the biggest punch.