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Type
Equipment
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Summary
The weapons and sensors fitted or carried by ships and aircraft.
Population
510
Unite Type
Gun Model | Turret Model | Torpedo Model | Torpedo Tube Model | Sensor | Anti Submarine Mounting | Armour Type | Turret Pattern
Summary
The weapons and sensors fitted or carried by ships and aircraft.
Types
Primary Supertype Of Type
Summary
 
 
The traditional weapon of the surface ship.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Directors were small rotatable compartments high in a ship which controlled the guns and torpedoes.
 
 
 
 
Radars detected and tracked things above the surface using high frequency radio waves.
Used to control gun fire against attacking aircraft.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sonars detected and tracked things below the surface using sound waves.
 
The traditional weapon of destroyers and submarines, later also aircraft.
 
 
 
 
 
Guns were mounted in turrets. The same turret model was often used in many ship classes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Turret Pattern
How the turrets were positioned on the ship.
Turret Pattern For Main Armament
The main armament pattern are specified quite precisely.
Turret Pattern For Secondary Armament
The non main armament patterns are quite loose.
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