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    Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. In modern...
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    Swedish Coastal Artillery (Swedish: Kustartilleriet, KA) has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866. The Coastal Artillery was formed...
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  • 120 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70  Sweden Cold War 120 12 cm mobile coastal artillery gun m/80  Sweden Cold War 120 120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892  Russian...
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    artillery may also refer to the arm of service that customarily operates such engines. In some armies, the artillery arm has operated field, coastal,...
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    a coastline (or other shoreline), for example, fortifications and coastal artillery. Because an invading enemy normally requires a port or harbour to...
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  • CDXXXVIII Coastal Battalion DXXXIX Coastal Battalion 28th Coastal Artillery Grouping CXXIV Coastal Artillery Group (105/14 howitzers CCXV Coastal Artillery Group...
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    Bereg (Russian: Берег; "Coast") is a Russian 130 mm self-propelled coastal artillery gun, which was developed in the 1980s (entering service in 1988) and...
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    mobile coastal artillery piece m/80 (Swedish: 12 cm rörlig kustartilleripjäs m/80 or R Kapj 12/80), also known as KARIN, was a 12 cm Swedish coastal artillery...
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    The 56th Artillery Command is a two-star command of the United States Army that serves as the Force Field Artillery Headquarters for U.S. Army Europe and...
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    peacetime for maintaining the forts with their garrison artillery (or coastal artillery), were the first regular artillerymen, organised in 1540 under the...
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    for coastal or frontier defence. During the 18th century "battery" began to be used as an organizational term for a permanent unit of artillery in peace...
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    used in the context of the Swedish Army with the exception of the coastal artillery and naval infantry which belongs to the Swedish Navy. Storregementen...
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    (Artillery test commission) gave design guidelines for a new coastal artillery carriage. Krupp made a design and got an order for a single coastal carriage...
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    and military fortifications. A military facility of the US Army Coast Artillery Corps on Galveston Island was established in the late 1890s. Construction...
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    Coastal Defense Artillery Regiment 448th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion 478th Army Coastal Defense Artillery Battalion 480th Army Coastal Defense...
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  • invasion, the fortifications in Norway were primarily based around coastal artillery, but also included anti-aircraft batteries, tanks and infantry forces...
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  • Artillery has been one of primary weapons of war since before the Napoleonic Era. Several countries have developed and built artillery systems, while artillery...
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    fortresses, including coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division and the guns of the siege artillery. The RGA was...
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    180 mm Pattern 1931–1933 (category Coastal artillery)
    Soviet Navy in World War II, which were later modified for coastal artillery and railway artillery roles. They were the primary armament of the Soviet Union's...
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  • TELAK 91 – 152 mm self-propelled gun Rocket artillery 122 RAKH 76 122 RAKH 91 227 RAKH 07 Coastal artillery 57 55 J 100 56 TK 130 53 TK Mortars Lance Grenades...
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  • Cheval)), 1 or 2 line infantry battalions, and sometimes a regional artillery/coastal artillery company. The National Guard of Paris for example had 12 Legions...
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  • upon to provide naval artillery fire support to the land forces operation in the coastal region within their range. Railway artillery involved large guns...
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    Gothenburg Coastal Artillery Defence (Swedish: Göteborgs kustartilleriförsvar, GbK) was a unit of the Swedish Coastal Artillery which operated from 1942...
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    The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States...
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  • March 1940, included a small amount of naval warfare. Finland had coastal artillery batteries which took part in battles along its coast. Naval activity...
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    Finnish-language contexts. The Finnish Navy also includes coastal forces and coastal artillery. The current Commander of the Navy is rear admiral Tuomas...
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    Krasnaya Gorka (Красная Горка meaning Red Hill) is a coastal artillery fortress in Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located on the...
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  • –2002) Marvika orlogsstasjon(?–2002) Ulsnes orlogsstasjon(?–2002) Coastal artillery was part of the Navy organisation from 1934 until it was disbanded...
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    operational area. The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three branches: Coastal Defence Missile Artillery Motorized coastal defence troops Naval...
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    the war the Kriegsmarine was responsible for coastal artillery protecting major ports and important coastal areas. It also operated anti-aircraft batteries...
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