Sentence examples for rotating turret from inspiring English sources

And then, like a machine gun on a rotating turret, he went around the table one by one and questioned every claim he had just heard.

It is typically fitted with a rotating turret that permits objectives of different powers to be interchanged with the assurance that the image position will be maintained.

These models feed the granulation through the die table, taking advantage of the centrifugal force created by the rotating turret for a rapid and uniform die fill.

The great majority of postwar tanks continued the traditional configuration of driver's station at the front of the hull, engine compartment at the rear, and rotating turret at the centre.

Its low profile and two-gun rotating turret had never been seen on the waters of the world before, though the Monitor's designer and builder, John Ericsson, already held a contract for 20 additional ships.

At one end is the driver's seat — actually, a rotating turret with a computer screen and a joystick — along with a host of cameras, lights and sensors that would let the rover be driven by remote control, or even to make its way along the barren plains of the moon or Mars with a degree of autonomy.

Behind the soldiers came a logistical convoy of armored flatbeds carrying crated cargo and escorted by "gun trucks" — armored Humvees with machine guns in rotating turrets.

Since the tanks' rotating turrets had to absorb the recoil of their guns, these were usually smaller in calibre than ordinary field cannon, so that, employed as artillery, tanks were costly and only moderately effective.

Instead, he stayed, and organised a series of general strikes, including one that shut down most of Zimbabwe's remaining businesses last week.He also tried to organise street protests, but these were greeted by hovering military helicopters and armoured vehicles with machineguns mounted on rotating turrets.

The North's Monitor design of rotating turrets — once described as "a cheese box on a raft" — and the South's casemate design of sloped sides — "a floating barn, sunken up to the eaves, and lined with cannon ports" — looked nothing alike, but the designs did have common purposes and philosophy.

The U.S. Army developed a specialized category of tank destroyers that resembled self-propelled guns in being relatively lightly armoured but that, like tanks, had rotating turrets.