Sentence examples for firing platforms from inspiring English sources

Ship-borne helicopters also serve as firing platforms for antiship missiles and are used to carry warning and surveillance radars, typically sharing information with their mother ships.

By the 1470s, towers were being cut down to the height of the adjacent wall, and firing platforms of packed earth were built behind walls and in the lower stories of towers.

Counter-castles could be used to either act as firing platforms for siege weaponry, or as bases for controlling the region in their own right.

Larger ships also had wooden castles (xylokastra) on either side between the masts, similar to those attested for the Roman liburnians, providing archers with elevated firing platforms.

Arrowslits and barbicans were incorporated into the defences, with multiple firing platforms built into the walls to allow the massed use of archers.

During the 13th century, a set of earthworks were built around the outside of the walls, which may have been the firing platforms for these trebuchets.

Mr. Schumann also noted that it had been mounted on a workshop-grade stand, which serves as firing platform.

The tank-like vehicle that serves as the firing platform can lob 240mm mortar rounds up to 20 kilometers away, and they carry over 70 pounds of explosives.

Over 200 cannon and gun ports were set within the walls, and the fort formed a firing platform with a shape that allowed many lines of fire.

The dock was protected by a wall later named the Gunners Walk and a firing platform that may have housed a trebuchet siege engine during the medieval period.

Due to the inaccuracy of the submarines' range-finding equipment, coupled with the unstable firing platform of a submarine at sea, specific targeting was impossible.