aircraft machine-gun turret
aircraft machine-gun turret
[′er‚kraft mə′shēn ‚gən ‚tə·rət] (ordnance)
An armored enclosure installed in an aircraft for housing the armament and related accessories; it is designed to rotate about one or more axes, thus permitting positioning and firing of a machine gun in a number of directions or angles.
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