Barbette of the French ship Redoutable (1876). See also For other ships of the name see French ship Redoutable.

Illustration of the barbette in relation to other parts of a battleship turret.

For the early 20th Century female impersonator, see Barbette (performer)

A barbette is a protective circular armor feature around a cannon or heavy artillery gun. For the military installation see Barbette Barbette was an American Female impersonator, high wire performer and Trapeze | NOTE Throughout this article "cannon" is used as BOTH the || singular and plural Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet (defensive wall) rather than through an opening (embrasure). French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people A field gun is an Artillery piece Originally the term referred to smaller Guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a Roof or structure. The term embrasure, in Military architecture, refers to the opening in a Crenellation or Battlement between the two raised solid portions or Merlons The former gives better angles of fire but less protection than the latter.

Before the complete introduction of the fully enclosed armoured gun turrets, a barbette was a fixed armoured enclosure protecting the gun. A gun turret is a device that protects the crew or mechanism of a projectile firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions The barbette could take the form of a ring of armour around the gun mount over which the guns (possibly fitted with a gun shield) fired.

In warships from the age of the dreadnought forward, the barbette is the non-rotating drum beneath the rotating gun turret (properly known as the "gunhouse") and above the armoured deck on a warship. A battleship is a large heavily armored Warship with a main battery consisting of the largest Calibre of Guns Battleships were A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a Ship. It forms the protection for the upper ends of the hoists that lift shells and their propelling charges (e. A shell is a payload-carrying Projectile, which as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling though modern usage includes large solid projectiles g. cordite) from the magazines below. Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom from 1889 to replace Gunpowder as a military propellant

When applied to military aircraft, a barbette is a position on an aircraft where a gun, or guns, are in a mounting which has a restricted arc of fire when compared to a turret. The word is frequently used to describe the tail gunner position on bombers such as the B-17 Flying Fortress. Tail Gunner is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

The term "barbette" is often used with military aircraft of World War II, to name a remotely aimed and operated gun turret, which itself has no human presence directly within its mechanics-the German Messerschmitt Me 210 and Me 410 Hornisse had twin remote turrets, one per side, for rearwards defense, the Heinkel He 177 had such a turret for its forward dorsal defense, and the famous American B-29 Superfortress had four such remote turrets, two dorsal and two ventral, each with twin M2 Browning guns, with only the tail gun position being "directly" manned. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse ("Hornet" was a Luftwaffe Heavy fighter and Schnellbomber of The Heinkel He 177 Greif ( Griffin) was a long-range bomber of the Luftwaffe. This article is about the.50 caliber M2 machine gun For the.30-06 M2 machine gun see M1919 Browning machine gun.

See also

• Disappearing gun#Naval application, a failed intermediate step between barbettes and gun turrets

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