Naval turret machinery repurposed for space antennas

What other examples exist of repurposing naval equipment after 16-inch guns were used for hypervelocity testing?

Large satellite and radio dishes often reused warship turret gearing and motors, including machinery sized for cruiser turrets.

Large satellite and radio dishes required precise movement of heavy structures, making surplus naval turret gearing and motors a useful foundation. The machinery had already been designed to rotate loads as heavy as warship gunhouses, so it offered ample capacity for antenna structures. County-class cruiser mechanisms were sufficient for many installations because even an enormous antenna could weigh less than a battleship gunhouse. The example shows how a specialized naval engineering system could find a second life in the space and communications infrastructure of the postwar era.