Faster access than browser!
171 relations: Admiralty Pier Turret, Adriatic Sea, Advanced Base Force, Age of Discovery, Amphibious warfare, Anti-ship ballistic missile, Anti-ship missile, Anti-tank warfare, Armor-piercing shell, Artillery, Artillery battery, Atlantic Wall, Battery Chamberlin, Battery Lothringen, Battle of Bataan, Battle of Callao, Battle of Drøbak Sound, Battle of Tarawa, Battle of the Dalmatian Channels, Battleship, Bermuda, BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun, BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun, BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X, Board of Fortifications, British Malaya, Cannon, Cape Spear, Capital cost, Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda, China, Coastal defence and fortification, Coastal fortifications of New Zealand, Connaught Battery, Constanța, Corregidor, Cotentin Peninsula, Croatian National Guard, Croatian War of Independence, Destroyer, Dieppe Raid, Disappearing gun, Dover Strait coastal guns, 1940–1944, English-speaking world, Femöre battery, Ferdinand I of Portugal, Ferry Reach, Bermuda, Floating battery, Fort Amherst, St. John's, Fort Copacabana, ..., Fort Denison, Fort Drum (Philippines), Fort Glanville Conservation Park, Fort Mills, Fort Pearce, Fort Queenscliff, Fort Siloso, Fort St. Catherine, Fort Victoria, Bermuda, French battleship Provence, German coastal battery Tirpitz, German cruiser Blücher, Germany, Gibraltar, Gun laying, Gunpowder, Hanstholm fortress, Harbor Defense Command, Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, Heavy cruiser, Helsinki, Henry II of Castile, High tech, HMS Ramillies (07), HMS Roberts (F40), HMS Warspite (03), Hobart coastal defences, Hoods Tower Museum, Howitzer, Japanese cruiser Takasago, Japanese cruiser Yūbari, Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925), Jet aircraft, Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story, Kingdom of Romania, Kriegsmarine, Kristiansand Cannon Museum, Krupp, Landing craft, Landing Craft Assault, Landing Craft Tank (Rocket), Lisbon, List of coastal artillery, List of coastal fortifications of the United States, List of Portuguese monarchs, Littoral (military), M7 Priest, Machine gun, Martello tower, Materiel, Middle Ages, Military, Military aviation, Missile, Missile guidance, Moulineaux, Naval artillery, Naval aviation, Naval Strike Missile, Ness Battery, Normandy landings, Norway, Organisation Todt, Orne, Oscarsborg Fortress, Oslofjord, Pacific Fleet (Russia), Palmerston Forts, Peter the Great's Naval Fortress, Pointe du Hoc, Portugal, Reinforced concrete, Royal Artillery, Russian battleship Peresvet, Russian battleship Pobeda, Russian battleship Poltava (1894), Russian battleship Retvizan, Russian battleship Sevastopol (1895), Russian cruiser Bayan (1900), Russian cruiser Pallada (1899), Russian Empire, Saint Petersburg, Santa Clara Battery, Scandinavia, Sea denial, Sea lane, Seacoast defense in the United States, Sir George Floyd Duckett, 3rd Baronet, Soviet Union, St David's Battery, St. David's Island, Bermuda, St. George's Island, Bermuda, Station CAST, Suomenlinna, Surface-to-surface missile, Sweden, Swedish Coastal Artillery, Torpedo, Toulon, Tyne Turrets, Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile, United States Army, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, USS Nevada (BB-36), USS Texas (BB-35), Valdivian Fort System, Ver-sur-Mer, Whitehead torpedo, Winston Churchill, World War II, York Redoubt, Yugoslav Navy, Yugoslav People's Army, 100 56 TK, 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70, 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun, 16-inch howitzer M1920, 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun, 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun, 5"/51 caliber gun, 7.5 cm tornpjäs m/57. Expand index (121 more) »
Admiralty Pier Turret
The Admiralty Pier Turret or Dover Turret, is an enclosed armoured turret built in 1882 on the western breakwater of Dover Harbour in southeast England.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Admiralty Pier Turret · See more »
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Adriatic Sea · See more »
Advanced Base Force
The United States Marine Corps's Advanced Base Force (Advance Base Force in some references) was a coastal and naval base defense force that was designed to set up mobile and fixed bases in the event of major landing operations within, and beyond, the territorial United States.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Advanced Base Force · See more »
Age of Discovery
The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Age of Discovery · See more »
Amphibious warfare
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Amphibious warfare · See more »
Anti-ship ballistic missile
An anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is a military quasiballistic missile system designed to hit a warship at sea.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Anti-ship ballistic missile · See more »
Anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missiles are guided missiles that are designed for use against ships and large boats.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Anti-ship missile · See more »
Anti-tank warfare
Anti-tank warfare arose as a result of the need to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks during World War I. Since the first tanks were developed by the Triple Entente in 1916 but not operated in battle until 1917, the first anti-tank weapons were developed by the German Empire.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Anti-tank warfare · See more »
Armor-piercing shell
An armor-piercing shell, AP for short, is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armor.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Armor-piercing shell · See more »
Artillery
Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Artillery · See more »
Artillery battery
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of artillery, mortars, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface to surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles etc, so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Artillery battery · See more »
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Atlantic Wall · See more »
Battery Chamberlin
Battery Chamberlin is an artillery battery in the Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battery Chamberlin · See more »
Battery Lothringen
Batterie Lothringen was a World War II coastal artillery battery in Saint Brélade, Jersey, named after the SMS'' Lothringen'', and constructed by Organisation Todt for the Wehrmacht during the Occupation of the Channel Islands.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battery Lothringen · See more »
Battle of Bataan
The Battle of Bataan (Filipino: Labanan sa Bataan) (7 January – 9 April 1942) represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battle of Bataan · See more »
Battle of Callao
The Battle of Callao (in Spanish, called Combate del Dos de Mayo mainly in South America) occurred on May 2, 1866 between a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez and the fortified battery emplacements of the Peruvian port city of Callao during the Chincha Islands War.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battle of Callao · See more »
Battle of Drøbak Sound
The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in Drøbak Sound, the northernmost part of the outer Oslofjord in southern Norway, on 9 April 1940.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battle of Drøbak Sound · See more »
Battle of Tarawa
The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that was fought on 20–23 November 1943.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battle of Tarawa · See more »
Battle of the Dalmatian Channels
The Battle of the Dalmatian Channels was a three-day confrontation between three tactical groups of Yugoslav Navy ships and coastal artillery, and a detachment of naval commandos of the Croatian Navy fought on 14–16 November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battle of the Dalmatian Channels · See more »
Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Battleship · See more »
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Bermuda · See more »
BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun
The BL 15 inch Mark I succeeded the BL 13.5 inch /45 naval gun.
New!!: Coastal artillery and BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun · See more »
BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun
The BL 6 inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy traveling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun · See more »
BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X
The BL 9.2 inch guns Mk IX and Mk XMk IX.
New!!: Coastal artillery and BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X · See more »
Board of Fortifications
Several boards have been appointed by US presidents or Congress to evaluate the US defensive fortifications, primarily coastal defenses near strategically important harbors on the US shores, its territories, and its protectorates.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Board of Fortifications · See more »
British Malaya
The term British Malaya loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries.
New!!: Coastal artillery and British Malaya · See more »
Cannon
A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Cannon · See more »
Cape Spear
Cape Spear, located on the Avalon Peninsula near St. John's, Newfoundland, is the easternmost point in Canada (52°37'W), and North America, excluding Danish-controlled Greenland.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Cape Spear · See more »
Capital cost
Capital costs are fixed, one-time expenses incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction, and equipment used in the production of goods or in the rendering of services.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Capital cost · See more »
Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda
Several of the islands strung across the South entrance of Castle Harbour, Bermuda were fortified in the early days of the territory, hence the harbour's name.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda · See more »
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
New!!: Coastal artillery and China · See more »
Coastal defence and fortification
Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, an example of an Early Modern coastal defense Coastal defence (or defense) and coastal fortification are measures taken to provide protection against military attack at or near a coastline (or other shoreline), for example, fortification and coastal artillery.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Coastal defence and fortification · See more »
Coastal fortifications of New Zealand
Coastal fortifications were constructed in New Zealand in two main waves: around 1885 as a response to fears of an attack by Russia, and in World War II due to fears of invasion by the Japanese.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Coastal fortifications of New Zealand · See more »
Connaught Battery
Connaught Battery is a World War I era harbour defence battery located north of York Redoubt at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Connaught Battery · See more »
Constanța
Constanța (Κωνστάντζα or Κωνστάντια, Konstantia, Кюстенджа or Констанца, Köstence), historically known as Tomis (Τόμις), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Constanța · See more »
Corregidor
Corregidor Island, locally called Isla ng Corregidor, is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Corregidor · See more »
Cotentin Peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Cotentin Peninsula · See more »
Croatian National Guard
The Croatian National Guard (Zbor narodne garde – ZNG) was an armed force established by Croatia in April and May 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Croatian National Guard · See more »
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Croatian War of Independence · See more »
Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Destroyer · See more »
Dieppe Raid
The Dieppe Raid was an Allied assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France on 19 August 1942, during the Second World War.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Dieppe Raid · See more »
Disappearing gun
A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Disappearing gun · See more »
Dover Strait coastal guns, 1940–1944
The Dover Strait coastal guns were British and German long-range coastal artillery pieces, on the English Channel coasts of Kent, England and the Pas-de-Calais, occupied France.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Dover Strait coastal guns, 1940–1944 · See more »
English-speaking world
Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language.
New!!: Coastal artillery and English-speaking world · See more »
Femöre battery
Femöre battery (also known as "Battery OD") is a facility previously operated by the Swedish Coastal Artillery arm of Swedish Armed Forces.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Femöre battery · See more »
Ferdinand I of Portugal
Dom Ferdinand I (Portuguese: Fernando; 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383), sometimes called the Handsome (o Formoso or o Belo) or occasionally the Inconstant (o Inconstante), was the King of the Kingdom of Portugal from 1367 until his death in 1383.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Ferdinand I of Portugal · See more »
Ferry Reach, Bermuda
Ferry Reach is a three mile (five kilometre) long channel in the north-east of Bermuda, which lies between St. George's Island in the north and St. David's Island in the south south-west of the town of St. George's.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Ferry Reach, Bermuda · See more »
Floating battery
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries a heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Floating battery · See more »
Fort Amherst, St. John's
Fort Amherst is a neighbourhood in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Amherst, St. John's · See more »
Fort Copacabana
Fort Copacabana (Forte de Copacabana) is a military base at the south end of the beach that defines the district of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Copacabana · See more »
Fort Denison
Fort Denison, part of Sydney Harbour National Park, is a protected national park that is a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Gardens and approximately east of the Opera House in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Denison · See more »
Fort Drum (Philippines)
Fort Drum (originally known as El Fraile Island), also known as "the concrete battleship", is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Drum (Philippines) · See more »
Fort Glanville Conservation Park
Fort Glanville Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia located in Semaphore Park, a seaside suburb of Adelaide consisting of a functional 19th century fort listed on the South Australian Heritage Register and some adjoining land used as a caravan park.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Glanville Conservation Park · See more »
Fort Mills
Fort Mills (Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Mills · See more »
Fort Pearce
Fort Pearce is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Pearce · See more »
Fort Queenscliff
Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Queenscliff · See more »
Fort Siloso
Fort Siloso is the sole restored coastal gun battery from the 12 such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Siloso · See more »
Fort St. Catherine
Fort St.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort St. Catherine · See more »
Fort Victoria, Bermuda
Fort Victoria is a disused British Army fort, built to house coastal artillery atop Retreat Hill at the North-East of St. George's Island, in the British colony of Bermuda.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Fort Victoria, Bermuda · See more »
French battleship Provence
Provence was a battleship of the French Navy built in the 1910s, named in honor of the French region of Provence.
New!!: Coastal artillery and French battleship Provence · See more »
German coastal battery Tirpitz
The German coastal battery Tirpitz, consisting mainly of three large 280 mm guns, was the most powerful coastal battery on the Romanian shore during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and German coastal battery Tirpitz · See more »
German cruiser Blücher
Blücher was the second of five heavy cruisers of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, built after the rise of the Nazi Party and the repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles.
New!!: Coastal artillery and German cruiser Blücher · See more »
Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Germany · See more »
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Gibraltar · See more »
Gun laying
Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece, such as a gun, howitzer or mortar, on land or at sea, against surface or air targets.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Gun laying · See more »
Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Gunpowder · See more »
Hanstholm fortress
Hanstholm fortress (German: Festung Hanstholm; Danish: Hanstholm batteri) was a large coastal fortification, built by Nazi Germany at Hanstholm in north-western Denmark during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Hanstholm fortress · See more »
Harbor Defense Command
A Harbor Defense Command was a military organization of the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps designated in 1925 from predecessor organizations dating from circa 1895.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Harbor Defense Command · See more »
Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through early World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays · See more »
Heavy cruiser
The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) of whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Heavy cruiser · See more »
Helsinki
Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Helsinki · See more »
Henry II of Castile
Henry II (13 January 1334 – 29 May 1379), called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricide (el Fratricida), was the first King of Castile and León from the House of Trastámara.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Henry II of Castile · See more »
High tech
High technology, often abbreviated to high tech (adjective forms high-technology, high-tech or hi-tech) is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available.
New!!: Coastal artillery and High tech · See more »
HMS Ramillies (07)
HMS Ramillies (pennant number: 07) was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was completed after the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and saw no combat during the war.
New!!: Coastal artillery and HMS Ramillies (07) · See more »
HMS Roberts (F40)
HMS Roberts was a Royal Navy of the Second World War.
New!!: Coastal artillery and HMS Roberts (F40) · See more »
HMS Warspite (03)
HMS Warspite was a built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and HMS Warspite (03) · See more »
Hobart coastal defences
The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Hobart coastal defences · See more »
Hoods Tower Museum
The Hoods Tower Museum (translit; ත්රිකුණාමලය නාවික කෞතුකාගාරය Trikuṇāmalaya Nāvika Kautukāgāraya) is a naval museum of the Sri Lanka Navy in Trincomalee.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Hoods Tower Museum · See more »
Howitzer
A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles over relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Howitzer · See more »
Japanese cruiser Takasago
was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards in Elswick, in the United Kingdom.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Japanese cruiser Takasago · See more »
Japanese cruiser Yūbari
was an experimental light cruiser built between 1922 and 1923 for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Japanese cruiser Yūbari · See more »
Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925)
The Japanese destroyer was one of nine destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925) · See more »
Jet aircraft
A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines (jet propulsion).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Jet aircraft · See more »
Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story
Joint Expeditionary Base-Fort Story, commonly called simply Fort Story is a sub-installation of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story, which is operated by the United States Navy.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story · See more »
Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe which existed from 1881, when prince Carol I of Romania was proclaimed King, until 1947, when King Michael I of Romania abdicated and the Parliament proclaimed Romania a republic.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Kingdom of Romania · See more »
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Kriegsmarine · See more »
Kristiansand Cannon Museum
Kristiansand Cannon Museum is a museum at Møvik, 8 kilometers west of the town centre of Kristiansand, Norway.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Kristiansand Cannon Museum · See more »
Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, became famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Krupp · See more »
Landing craft
Landing craft are small and medium seagoing vessels such as boats, and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Landing craft · See more »
Landing Craft Assault
Landing Craft Assault (LCA) was a landing craft used extensively in World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Landing Craft Assault · See more »
Landing Craft Tank (Rocket)
The Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) or LCT(R) was developed from the British Mk.2 and Mk.3 Landing Craft Tank (LCT) during the Second World War.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) · See more »
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Lisbon · See more »
List of coastal artillery
No description.
New!!: Coastal artillery and List of coastal artillery · See more »
List of coastal fortifications of the United States
The United States built numerous coastal defenses to defend major cities, ports and straits from the Colonial era through World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and List of coastal fortifications of the United States · See more »
List of Portuguese monarchs
The monarchs of Portugal ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.
New!!: Coastal artillery and List of Portuguese monarchs · See more »
Littoral (military)
In military and naval warfare, littoral combat is operations in and around the littoral zone, within a certain distance of shore, including surveillance, mine-clearing and support for landing operations and other types of combat shifting from water to ground, and back.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Littoral (military) · See more »
M7 Priest
The 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle produced during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and M7 Priest · See more »
Machine gun
A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm designed to fire bullets in rapid succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of 300 rounds per minute or higher.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Machine gun · See more »
Martello tower
Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Martello tower · See more »
Materiel
Materiel, more commonly matériel in US English and also listed as the only spelling in some UK dictionaries (both pronounced, from French matériel meaning equipment or hardware), refers to military technology and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Materiel · See more »
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Middle Ages · See more »
Military
A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Military · See more »
Military aviation
Military aviation is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift (air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a theater or along a front.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Military aviation · See more »
Missile
In modern language, a missile is a guided self-propelled system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as a rocket (although these too can also be guided).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Missile · See more »
Missile guidance
Missile guidance refers to a variety of methods of guiding a missile or a guided bomb to its intended target.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Missile guidance · See more »
Moulineaux
Moulineaux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Moulineaux · See more »
Naval artillery
Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Naval artillery · See more »
Naval aviation
Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, whether from warships that embark aircraft, or land bases.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Naval aviation · See more »
Naval Strike Missile
The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Naval Strike Missile · See more »
Ness Battery
Ness Battery was a crucial element of the defences of the western entrance to Scapa Flow, in Orkney, Scotland, the main fleet base for the Royal Navy in both World Wars.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Ness Battery · See more »
Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Normandy landings · See more »
Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Norway · See more »
Organisation Todt
The Todt Organisation (Organisation Todt, OT) was a civil and military engineering group in the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945, named after its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior Nazi figure.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Organisation Todt · See more »
Orne
Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Orne · See more »
Oscarsborg Fortress
Oscarsborg Fortress (Oscarsborg festning) is a coastal fortress in the Oslofjord, close to the small town of Drøbak.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Oscarsborg Fortress · See more »
Oslofjord
The Oslofjord (Oslo Fjord) is an inlet in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbjørnskjær and Færder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Oslofjord · See more »
Pacific Fleet (Russia)
The Pacific Fleet (Тихоокеанский флот, translit: Tikhookeanskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Pacific Ocean.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Pacific Fleet (Russia) · See more »
Palmerston Forts
The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures, around the coast of Britain.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Palmerston Forts · See more »
Peter the Great's Naval Fortress
Peter the Great's naval fortress or the Tallinn-Porkkala defence station was a Russian fortification line, which aimed to block access to the Russian capital Saint Petersburg via the sea.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Peter the Great's Naval Fortress · See more »
Pointe du Hoc
La Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a cliff overlooking the English Channel on the north-western coast of Normandy in the Calvados department, France.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Pointe du Hoc · See more »
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Portugal · See more »
Reinforced concrete
Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Reinforced concrete · See more »
Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Royal Artillery · See more »
Russian battleship Peresvet
Peresvet (Пересвет) was the lead ship of the three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian battleship Peresvet · See more »
Russian battleship Pobeda
Pobeda (lit) was the last of the three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian battleship Pobeda · See more »
Russian battleship Poltava (1894)
The Russian battleship Poltava (Полтава) was one of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian battleship Poltava (1894) · See more »
Russian battleship Retvizan
Retvizan (Ретвизан) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built before the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 for the Imperial Russian Navy.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian battleship Retvizan · See more »
Russian battleship Sevastopol (1895)
Sevastopol (Севастополь) was the last of three ships in the of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian battleship Sevastopol (1895) · See more »
Russian cruiser Bayan (1900)
The cruiser Bayan (Russian: Баян) was the name ship of the four armoured cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) · See more »
Russian cruiser Pallada (1899)
Pallada was the lead ship in the of protected cruisers in the Imperial Russian Navy.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian cruiser Pallada (1899) · See more »
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Russian Empire · See more »
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
New!!: Coastal artillery and Saint Petersburg · See more »
Santa Clara Battery
The Santa Clara Battery, with its two remaining coastal guns, one a caliber 305mm (12") Ordóñez HSE Modelo 1892 rifle and the other a 280mm (11") Krupp, stands on the grounds of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Vedado, Havana.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Santa Clara Battery · See more »
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Scandinavia · See more »
Sea denial
Sea denial is a military term describing attempts to deny the enemy's ability to use the sea without necessarily attempting to control the sea for its own use.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Sea denial · See more »
Sea lane
A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used route for vessels on oceans and large lakes.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Sea lane · See more »
Seacoast defense in the United States
Seacoast defense was a major concern for the United States from its independence until World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Seacoast defense in the United States · See more »
Sir George Floyd Duckett, 3rd Baronet
Sir George Floyd Duckett, 3rd Baronet (1811–1902) was an English army officer, antiquarian and lexicographer.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Sir George Floyd Duckett, 3rd Baronet · See more »
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Soviet Union · See more »
St David's Battery
St.
New!!: Coastal artillery and St David's Battery · See more »
St. David's Island, Bermuda
St.
New!!: Coastal artillery and St. David's Island, Bermuda · See more »
St. George's Island, Bermuda
St.
New!!: Coastal artillery and St. George's Island, Bermuda · See more »
Station CAST
Station CAST was the United States Navy signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence fleet radio unit at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, until Cavite was captured by the Japanese forces in 1942, during World War II.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Station CAST · See more »
Suomenlinna
Suomenlinna (Finnish), or Sveaborg (Swedish), literal translation Finland Castle, until 1918 Viapori (Finnish), is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands (Kustaanmiekka (sv:Vargskär / Gustavssvärd), Susisaari (sv:Vargö), Iso-Mustasaari (sv:Stora Östersvartö), Pikku-Mustasaari (sv:Lilla Östersvartö), Länsi-Mustasaari (sv:Västersvartö), and Långören) and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Suomenlinna · See more »
Surface-to-surface missile
A surface-to-surface missile (SSM) or ground-to-ground missile (GGM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea and strike targets on land or at sea.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Surface-to-surface missile · See more »
Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Sweden · See more »
Swedish Coastal Artillery
The Swedish Coastal Artillery (Kustartilleriet, KA) has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Swedish Coastal Artillery · See more »
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Torpedo · See more »
Toulon
Toulon (Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Toulon · See more »
Tyne Turrets
The Tyne Turrets were two 12-inch Mk VIII guns from the battleship HMS ''Illustrious'', installed in Roberts Battery at Hartley, near Seaton Sluice north of the Tyne, and Kitchener Battery in Marsden near Lizard Point south of the river.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Tyne Turrets · See more »
Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile
The Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile (88式地対艦誘導弾, SSM-1) is a truck-mounted anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the late 1980s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile · See more »
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
New!!: Coastal artillery and United States Army · See more »
United States Army Coast Artillery Corps
The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States between 1901 and 1950.
New!!: Coastal artillery and United States Army Coast Artillery Corps · See more »
USS Nevada (BB-36)
USS Nevada (BB-36), the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two s. Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the "all or nothing" armor principle.
New!!: Coastal artillery and USS Nevada (BB-36) · See more »
USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.
New!!: Coastal artillery and USS Texas (BB-35) · See more »
Valdivian Fort System
The Fort System of Valdivia are a series of Spanish colonial fortifications at Corral Bay, Valdivia and Cruces River established to protect the city of Valdivia, in southern Chile.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Valdivian Fort System · See more »
Ver-sur-Mer
Ver-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department and Normandy region of north-western France.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Ver-sur-Mer · See more »
Whitehead torpedo
The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Whitehead torpedo · See more »
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Winston Churchill · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: Coastal artillery and World War II · See more »
York Redoubt
York Redoubt is a redoubt situated on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, originally constructed in 1793.
New!!: Coastal artillery and York Redoubt · See more »
Yugoslav Navy
The Yugoslav Navy (Jugoslavenska Ratna Mornarica, Југословенска Pатна Mорнарица), was the navy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Yugoslav Navy · See more »
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska narodna armija / Југословенска народна армија / Jugoslavenska narodna armija; also Yugoslav National Army), often referred-to simply by the initialism JNA, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
New!!: Coastal artillery and Yugoslav People's Army · See more »
100 56 TK
100 56 TK or 100 TK ("100 mm, 56 length caliber, turret gun") is a Finnish stationary coastal artillery gun that utilizes the tank turret from the Soviet T-55 tank with its 100 mm D-10 tank gun.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 100 56 TK · See more »
12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70
The 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70 ("12 cm automatic turret gun model 1970"), also known as ERSTA (Ersättning Tungt Artilleri or "Replacement Heavy Artillery") was developed to defend vital points like seaports from enemy landing ships, as well as area denial and fire support, even on a nuclear battlefield.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70 · See more »
16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun
The 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun and the near-identical Mark 3 were guns originally designed and built for the United States Navy as the main armament for the ''South Dakota''-class battleships and s. At the time, they were among the heaviest guns built for use as naval artillery.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun · See more »
16-inch howitzer M1920
The 16-inch howitzer M1920 (406 mm) was a coastal artillery piece installed to defend major American seaports between 1922 and 1947.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 16-inch howitzer M1920 · See more »
340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun
The 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun (13.4") was a heavy naval gun of the French Navy.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 gun · See more »
38 cm SK C/34 naval gun
The 38 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) naval gun was developed by Germany mid to late 1930s.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun · See more »
5"/51 caliber gun
5"/51 caliber guns (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") initially served as the secondary battery of United States Navy battleships built from 1907 through the 1920s, also serving on other vessels.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 5"/51 caliber gun · See more »
7.5 cm tornpjäs m/57
The 7.5 cm tornpjäs m/57 (75 mm turret gun model 1957) was developed for the Swedish Coastal Artillery in the 1950s as a light and comparatively cheap gun that would replace a large number of mostly obsolete systems for short-range coastal defense.
New!!: Coastal artillery and 7.5 cm tornpjäs m/57 · See more »
Redirects here:
Coast Artillery, Coast Defense Artillery, Coast artillery, Coast-defense guns, Coastal Artillery, Coastal batteries, Coastal battery, Coastal gun, Coastal guns, Defgun, Gun emplacement, KSM-65 100 mm coastal defense gun, Land battery, Shore battery.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_artillery
