A gun mantlet is an armour plate or shield attached to an armoured fighting vehicle's gun, protecting the opening through which the weapon's barrel projects...

Look up mantlet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In medieval warfare a mantlet or mantelet was a portable wall or shelter used for stopping projectiles...

weight German Jagdpanther. Its main armament was a 105 mm T5E1 gun in a ball-shaped gun mantlet set into the vertical hull front. The traverse was limited...

the main gun, a larger 76.2 mm (3.00 in) thick gun mantlet that covered the entire rotor shield including the sight and coaxial machine gun barrel was...

turret mantlet from 500 m (550 yd) and the turret front from 1,500 m (1,600 yd). The Panther's 75 mm gun could penetrate the IS-2 model 1943's mantlet from...

has a cast gun mantlet which is better shaped from the point of view of its resistance to armour-piercing projectiles than the flat mantlet of the Mark...

5 in) gun, with 32 mm (1.3 in) armor; the M2A1 had a 51 mm (2.0 in) gun mantlet. Some features of the M2 series, especially the suspension and powertrain...

main gun mantlet with a captured Soviet Luna L-2 infrared searchlight taken from enemy tanks, or either a fixed-mounted .50 caliber M2HB machine gun; Alefs...

the heavy gun better. The gun mantlet needed modification to accept the barrel. Although the 17-pounder was a similar bore to the 3-inch gun M7, it had...

larger gun mantlet bolted externally, and a two-piece KwK 43/4 L/71 gun. Some later G1 models had 'hybrid' G2 features such as the larger G2 mantlet as changes...

the mantlet, covering the entire front of the mantlet. There were 3 holes cut in the plate one for the gunner’s sight, one for the barrel of the gun, and...

shield Transparent Armor Gun Shield Gun mantlet Hillbilly armor Apilan and kota mara, gunshield and bulwark on Malay ships "A Gun-Shield from the Armoury...

vision system was designated XSW-30-U and was mounted above the main gun on the mantlet, offset to the left. It could be removed and stowed in the rear turret...

independently of the turret. The thickest armor used was 25 mm on the gun mantlet and 15–25 mm on the hull front. Power was provided by an air-cooled V-12...

Vehicle Light at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in 2020. Rear Gun mantlet Roadwheels Pepperpot muzzle brake Smoke grenade launcher Laser rangefinder...

testing. It was on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum outside Moscow. Its gun mantlet was painted red. Its chassis number was unknown, either No. 150090 or...

two standard (no modification made) MG 42s on both sides of the main gun mantlet/glacis, firing through a firing port which was protected by an armored...

over rough ground as the turret is unstabilised. Missile Mounted on the gun mantlet, the ATGM launcher is capable of firing the 9M14 Malyutka, (NATO: AT-3A...

was up to 240 mm (9.4 in) and the sides and rear 200 mm (7.9 in). The gun mantlet was 250 mm (9.8 in), and combined with the turret armor behind, the protection...

aiming at tank tracks, or vulnerable margins on the turret ring and gun mantlet, rather than testing their lighter cannon against bow and turret armor...

38 L/42 main gun. Panzer III Ausf. G - Ausf F. with extra armour on the gun mantlet, late production armed with 5 cm KwK 38 L/42 main gun. Panzer III Ausf...

heavily armored gun mantlet with the barrel inside of an armored tube. In May 1939, the Kirov plant received an order for six-hundred L-17 guns. During testing...

maximize effectiveness. The turret armor was 25 mm thick with a 38 mm thick gun mantlet. The glacis plate was 25 mm thick. Side hull armor thickness varied:...

frontal hull armour 100 mm (3.9 in) thick, frontal turret of 100 mm and gun mantlet with a varying thickness of 120 to 200 mm (4.7 to 7.9 in). The Tiger...

cast gun mantlet, which was quickly replaced in production by a better protected larger cast mantlet with three vertical slits for the main gun, a coaxial...

vertical) The front of the turret was further protected by a rounded cast gun mantlet which was 19 mm (0.75 in) thick. Another disadvantage of the M18 was...

energy penetrators is limited to the front of the hull, turret, and gun mantlet, with the exception of the lower glacis. The top armor can effectively...

plate and the "mantletless" cast turret was built, with an internal gun mantlet. Having a shorter hull than the Centurion, the FV4202 only had five road...

howitzer. The gun is facing backwards to preserve the center of gravity. The mount is completely open apart from a mantlet around the base of the gun tube. The...

rifled gun. Main difference between Type 80 and Type 80-I was in the fire control system with the original range finding laser mounted on the gun mantlet incorporated...