Pintle

These are assemblies to fit a weapon, and can also be found on hardpoints, ring turrets and gun carriages. Not all vehicles can be fitted with pintles. Unarmoured vehicles require structural reinforcements to receive hardpoints.

A simple hole where to fit a weapon, usually found facing forward on dashboards, firing slits, head boards, and small craft bows, but can take any facing.. Regular pintles can take HMGs up to 12.7mm, but firing rockets, missiles, or recoilless weapons from them is generally a terminally bad idea due to the backblast. 14.5mm and 20mm weapons can be used with reinforced pintles, but depending on the vehicle it might be a tight fit.

Allows a 60º rotation or more, depending on the room available for the user to move, 60º elevation and 20º depression