Pintel Mounts

[Duke]

Forgive my lack of military experience and knowledge, but can someone please give me a description of a pintel mount (re: auto-cannons, etc.)?

 

[hunter]

Forgive my lack of military experience and knowledge, but can someone please give me a description of a pintel mount (re: auto-cannons, etc.)?

Any war moving with a jeep and a machinegun mounted in the back.

A tank with a machinegun mounted at the observation/commander's hatch.

Basically is a weapon on a swivel mount that can cover a wide arc and be raised and depressed to some degree.

 

[ChalkLine]

Yep, a pintle is a pole mount that is fixed in one position. In some vehicles, like post WW2 half tracks, you could move the mount around the vehicle.

Pintles are very old tech; ring mounts with armour protection should be the bare-minimum. In Iraq now the old problem with pintles has cropped up and they're being superceded by armoured weapon positions - essentially light turrets for the gunner's protection.

 

[Icosahedron]

I never really figured out the difference between a 'pintel' and an 'open' mount in Striker. I guessed at it twenty years ago and stuck with my guess, but maybe someone can shed some light on the difference, for my sake as well as Duke's?

 

[veltyen]

In Iraq now the old problem with pintles has cropped up and they're being superceded by armoured weapon positions - essentially light turrets for the gunner's protection.

I wouldn't say that.

Remote turrets are more what they're being superceded by.

From Army Times