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A barbette was formerly an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top. In modern warfare, a barbette is a remotely controlled housing for defensive guns.
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The Schiffskanone L/35 (Max E) was a 38 cm calibre German naval gun adapted for both railway and fixed barbette mounting and used during the Great War, including for the attack on Verdun in 1916. The Schiffskanone L/35 fired a 38 cm calibre 400 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 47.5 km.
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The Wespe was a German self-propelled gun of the Second World War produced from 1943 to 1945. The Wespe was based upon a Panzer 2 chassis mounted with a fixed armoured barbette on top which was armed with a 105 mm IeFH 18 howitzer. The
Wespe was powered by a Maybach 6-cylinder petrol engine providing a top speed of 40 kmh and a range of 140 km. The five man crew were protected by armour ranging from 10 to 20 mm thick. An unarmed munitions carrier model was also produced.
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The Ilyushin IL-76 (Candid) is a Soviet heavy-duty medium/long-haul military and commercial freighter aircraft. It was prototyped in 1971 and production started in 1974. It is manned by a crew of four, and can carry up to 140 fully equipped troops or 40,000 kg of freight. The military version is armed with two 23 mm cannons in a tail barbette. The Ilyushin IL-86 has a top speed of 850 kmh and a maximum range of 6,700 km unladen.
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The Junkers Ju 388L was a German three-seat photographic reconnaissance aircraft of the Second World War built between 1943 and 1944 when production was abandoned. The Ju 388L-1 was powered by two 1890 hp BMW 801TJ 14-cylinder radial piston engines providing a top speed of 615 kmh and a range of 3475 km when equipped with external tanks. Armaments consisted of a remotely- controlled FA15 tail barbette equipped with two 13 mm MG 131 machine-guns.
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The Myasischev Mya-4 or officially Myasischev 201-M (NATO codename Bison) was a Soviet long-range heavy bomber and reconnaissance aircraft in service from 1956 to about 1990. The Myasischev Mya-4 was powered by four MNPK 'Soyuz' Am-3D turbojets providing a top speed of 620 mph and a maximum range of 5600 km. Armaments consisted of nine Nudel'man-Rikhter NR-23 23 mm cannons firing as a single gun on the starboard side of the nose, twin guns in the tail turret, one remote controlled barbette on the upper fuselage and two remote controlled barbettes on the lower fuselage and up to 9000 kg of disposable stores carried in a lower-fuselage weapons bay (in 1959 a Myasischev Mya-4 piloted by Anatoli Lipko carried a payload of 27,000 kg over a 1000 km closed circuit, setting seven speed-with-payload records). The Myasischev Mya-4 was manned by a crew of seven consisting of two pilots, navigator/bomb-aimer, radar/Ew-system operator and three gunners.
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The Tupolev Tu-22 (Blinder) is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber first flown in 1959 and in service since 1961. The Tu-22 is powered by two RKBM VD-7M turbojets providing a top speed of Mach 1.4 and a maximum range of 6500 km. Armaments consist of a 23 mm NR-23 cannon in a remotely-controlled tail barbette and carries up to 10000 kg of disposable stores in a lower-fuselage weapons bay, usually an AS-4 Kitchen anti-ship-missile.
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The Tupolev Tu-26 (Backfire) is a Soviet four-seater variable-geometry operational/strategic bomber derived from the Tu-22 in an effort to overcome the Tu-22's poor range and indifferent supersonic performance, the process being analogous to that which saw the evolution of the variable-geometry Sukhoi Su-17 series from the fixed-geometry Su-7. The Tu-22 first flew in the late 1960s before entering limited Soviet service in about 1974. It is armed with two 23 mm NR-23 cannons in a remotely-controlled tail barbette and up to 12000 kg of disposable stores carried in a lower-fuselage weapons bay, on two hard points, one under each wing glove, and on two triple tandem racks, one under each inlet duct. The Tu-26 generally carries one AS-4 Kitchen anti-ship missile or two AS-6 Kingfish anti-ship missiles.
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A barbette is an armoured cylinder below a turret on a warship that protects the revolving structure and foundation of the turret.
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HMS Barbette was a British Barricade Class boom defence vessel of 730 tons displacement launched in 1937. HMS Barbette had a top speed of 11.75 knots and carried a complement of 32. She was armed with a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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