[WIP] Playable Iowa - Tech problem

[horsa]

This is a recurring problem I've never solved . I've had it on the Brooklyn, the Fletcher and now the Iowa.

The problem is the player operable gun does not appear in-game.
The ship appears and all else runs fine. No crashes

I've read Mikhayl's post about how to create a new player operable gun (over and over again ). I've looked at the examples of the Clemson, Graf Spee and Yamato. All to no avail. I get the same problem.

These are the files for the Iowa with its new turret -16 inch.
What have I missed or missinterpreted ???

For the Fletcher and (unreleased) Brooklyn I used a workaround but this is not totally satisfactory so I would really like to get it right the text book way .

There's a couple of other things puzzling me :-

1) Is there any significance in the use of "soclu" ( or is it Rumanian for something like "gun")
2) Some of the references have DG at the end. Important ?