Word: gunmount
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Only months after this incident, that same ship blew up its forward gunmount, killing or blinding many members of the crew. "In order to forgive myself," says Hagerty, "I went and formed a legal organization called the Lawyers Military Defense Committee...
Once outside, Liddy hopped into the driver's seat of his panzer tank. He was distressed to find a parking ticket tucked under the gunmount. At last, he unfolded the paper. It was a blind memorandum, a standard CIA message with no saluation, no signature. The message read...
SURFACE-TO-AIR* missiles, designed to bring down enemy aircraft, are gracefully tapered objects, 10 to 15 ft. long and 1 ft. or less in diameter. They are launched from a kind of gunmount. On their tails they have four fixed fins arranged at right angles to one another. These keep the missile stable in flight, like the feathers of an arrow. The control surfaces are four small, triangular, movable fins one-third of the way back from the missile's nose. They can steer the missile, roll it and even give it lift, like an airplane in flight...
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