What is "barbettes"

Usage examples of "barbettes".

The barbettes and magazines below those turrets carried only anti-lander ammunition, solid bolts of depleted uranium.

What possesses the Royal Navy to keep on putting their twelve-inch guns in barbettes instead of turrets?

When they put it into one of these fifteen-thousand-tonners and change from barbettes to good rotational turrets, they’ll have a real battleship.

Rising again, the beams exploded against the black-and-white-striped hull, then rose higher still to the first row of barbettes.

Eight monstrous quad-mount barbettes tracked Brim and his speeding attackers as if their director systems had been locked on for a metacycle.

Virgil told Tyler the Maine was a second-class battleship, but had twelve inches of armor around her hull and eight to twelve inches protecting her turrets and barbettes.

Six 8-inch rifles, a dozen 4-inchers, up to ten inches of armor around her turrets and barbettes.

The Victor was still two kilometers off Indy’s port beam, but through the magnification inherent in the ship optical sensory feed, the immense vessel loomed like a passing cliff face, with sponsons, barbettes, field projector arrays, and fairings turning hull metal into a landscape of faceted surfaces and complex topographies, with masts like forest giants, with gun ports grinning down her gundeck modules like bared teeth.

In an attempt to bolster this weakness—unseen by her original designers—at least seventy new, rapid-firing disrupter barbettes had been let-in to her massive hull, and she now bristled like an oversize hedgehog.

The unit was supposed to control three of the automatic impellers in unmanned barbettes on the outer wall.