A gun shield is a flat (or sometimes curved) piece of armor designed to be mounted on a crew-served weapon such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher...
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The Transparent Armor Gun shield, or TAGS, is a visually transparent protective gun shield built by BAE Systems made with ballistic glass for US military...
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long, 7.29 feet (2.22 m) wide, 8.17 feet (2.49 m) high (including the gun shield), and weighed 20,000 pounds (9.1 t). Its suspension consisted of semi-elliptical...
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A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand, which may or may not be strapped to the wrist or forearm. Shields are used to intercept specific...
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8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 (redirect from 88mm flak gun)
fitted with a gun shield to protect the crew when engaging ground targets. It was produced by Krupp. Mod 1938 II: Approximately 50 guns were modified...
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M56 Scorpion (redirect from M56 Self Propelled Gun)
self-propelled gun is an American unarmored, airmobile self-propelled tank destroyer, which was armed with a 90 mm M54 gun with a simple blast shield, and an...
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5 cm Pak 38 (category World War II anti-tank guns of Germany)
unique curved gun-shield design differed from most WWII anti-tank guns which had either one flat or two angled and one flat gun-shield plates for ease...
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to be engaged in the pursuit of fleeing enemies. Apilan and kota mara Gun shield History of gunpowder Naval artillery in the Age of Sail Naval tactics...
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for the period, the gun has a shield, including a folding piece below the cradle support. The centre section of the upper shield slides both up and down...
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Type 66 howitzer (redirect from Type 66 gun-howitzer)
some cases a gun-shield is fitted but this is not universal. The Type 66 152 mm (6.0 in) gun-howitzer is a Chinese copy of the Soviet D-20 gun-howitzer built...
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deployed they form a cross. Gun shields – Not all modern guns have shields. Before World War I, shields were intended to provide gun crews with protection at...
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M1 Abrams (section 120 mm gun M1A1)
tiles. A Transparent Armor Gun Shield and a thermal sight system are added to the loader's top-mounted M240B 7.62 mm machine gun, and a Kongsberg Gruppen...
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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...
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artillery piece for its time, except for a lack of a Gun shield for the crew. The lack of a Gun shield was not a major liability, as most artillery quickly...
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the British Army. It was also produced in the MOBAT version without a gun shield, and the ConBAT version with a new spotting rifle attachment. The L6 Wombat...
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Tank destroyer (redirect from Self-propelled anti-tank gun)
which mounted an existing anti-tank gun on a convenient chassis for mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for crew protection. For instance...
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M139 cannon, but that had an upper cover that flipped forward to form a gun shield, or rearward to close up.[citation needed] During the June to August 1974...
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rockets, while the Landing Craft Guns (Large) (LCG(L)) was armed with two QF 4.7 inch guns, eight Oerlikon 20 mm AA guns and two 2-pounder pom-poms. These...
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Sturmgeschütz III (redirect from Stug 3 assault gun)
StuG III Ausf. G from December 1942, a 7.92 mm MG34 machine gun could be mounted on a shield on top of the superstructure for added anti-infantry protection...
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gun (also used, as the 8.8 cm KwK 43, for the main armament of the Tiger II tank) was mounted on the rear of the chassis complete with its gun shield...
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interchangeable and were mounted on a pivot mount fitted with a curved gun shield. The main production models of the Peugeot armoured car were built on...
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shield idea further and commenced engineering general issue gun shields for the M113. These shields became the predecessor to the standardized armored cavalry...
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a shield for 20 years as a match for a 6-inch Mk XI naval gun it held from HMAS Sydney had spotted the shield at location. The naval gun and shield were...
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modello 16. The gun could be broken into three sections, intended for towing by two animal carts. The gun crew was protected by a gun shield. The Italians...
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Canon de 75 modèle 1897 (redirect from M1897 75 mm field gun)
gun had a new gun shield, sprung suspension and pneumatic tires for motor transport. The 75 Mle 1897 was also considered as a possible anti-tank gun by...
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3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz M.15 (category World War I infantry guns)
horizontal opening at about waist level, with just the top of the machine gun's gun shield showing. Infantry would have to close on these positions while under...
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additional offset for speeds up to 900 km/h (560 mph). The gun was normally used without a gun shield, although some multiple mounts on Yamato-class battleships...
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designed as an aircraft gun. The weapon was originally issued with a gun shield. The Villar Perosa was first issued to the infantry in 1916, with mixed...
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Panzerjäger I (category Self-propelled anti-tank gun)
Panzer I turret was removed and a fixed gun shield added to protect the armament and crew. The anti-tank gun was mounted on a pedestal in the fighting...
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