The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag, so its gunner usually was the shortest man in the crew. Gunners on World War II bombers had only a ...

As a ball turret gunner, his job was to fire two .50-caliber machine guns from a small rotating sphere made of metal and glass, mounted on the underside of the B-17 aircraft. The role required ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski, a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, was an engineer and ball turret gunner assigned to the 760th Bombardment Squadron, 460th Bombardment Group ...

Well, [Austiwawa] just finished making a pretty awesome Airsoft gun turret, and decided to make a video tutorial on how he made it. Following along the build only takes about 5 minutes of your ...

The gunner is seated on the left side of the turret and has a square single-piece hatch cover that opens to the right. The twin doors at the rear of the turret are provided for ammunition resupply.

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has ordered Elbit Systems' UT30 Mk 2 turret systems for an unnamed European ...

Inspired by the Eggers, Burke volunteered to become a ball turret gunner, and flew his first mission on September 16, 1943. He was later wounded in action when a German shell came into his turret ...

Well, [Austiwawa] just finished making a pretty awesome Airsoft gun turret, and decided to make a video tutorial on how he made it. Following along the build only takes about 5 minutes of your ...

ACS, an Austin-based defense tech company, is working on an autonomous gun turret system that shoots enemy drones out of the sky.