A participant wants to inspect the turret connections aboard Wisconsin or New Jersey. They settle tentatively on the term slip rings for the electrical connections between turret and ship. The feature of interest is maintaining those connections while the turret rotates through most of a full circle.
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Slip rings connecting a rotating turret to its ship
The fire-control discussion prompts interest in the electrical connections that keep working as a turret turns.