All these guns used a screw elevating mechanism instead of the old system of wedges and had an improved sighting apparatus.
2.
The threads of the traversing and elevating mechanisms are of the sight has been reported for the Type 3, and the sight for the Type 97 will not fit.
3.
Because driver's hatch was moved from the glacis plate and positioned so that he exited the vehicle perpendicularly instead of crawling out of the hatch, his seat received an elevating mechanism.
4.
The crew on " Nautilus " discovered that one of their six-inch guns was malfunctioning in the elevating mechanism and would slip, causing the shell to over-shoot great distances from their intended target.