The Middle Ground Coastal Battery is a heritage site of an antique coastal artillery battery managed by the Indian Navy on an islet off the coast of Mumbai...
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List of forts in India (section Coastal Region)
(Raigad) Manohargad-Mansantoshgad Markanda Fort Mazagon Fort Middle Ground Coastal Battery Mohandar fort/ Shidka fort Mohangad Mora fort Morgiri Fort Mrugagad...
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maritime history Future of the Indian Navy Indian Coast Guard Middle Ground Coastal Battery Naval Aviation Museum (Goa) Naval Aircraft Museum (Kolkata)...
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155/45mm Sharang Mortar carrier Carrier Mortar Tracked Coastal defence Middle Ground Coastal Battery (Historical) Heavy gun 180 mm gun S-23 Recoilless rifle...
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and 8th centuries. Middle Ground Coastal Battery is a small islet in the Thane creek. It features an antique coastal gun battery of the Indian Navy....
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United States Middle Duck Lake Huron, Ontario Canada Middle Ground Mississippi River, Mississippi United States Middle Ground Coastal Battery Maharashtra...
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apprehension from the Dutch. In 1682, the Company fortified the Middle Ground Coastal Battery isle in the archipelago to curb the sea piracy in the area....
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The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World...
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Longues-sur-Mer battery (German: Marineküstenbatterie (MKB) Longues-sur-Mer; also designated Widerstandsnest (Wn) 48) is a World War II German coastal artillery...
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deployed. There were over forty seven coastal defence locations in Scotland during the First World War. Ardeer Battery, Ardeer, North Ayrshire Cloch Point...
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forts, the first three types often with detached gun batteries called "water batteries". Coastal defence weapons throughout history were heavy naval guns...
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Beacon Hill Battery (also known as Beacon Hill Fort) is a late-19th and 20th century coastal fortification that was built to defend the port of Harwich...
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Army's first proving ground for the testing of ordnance and materiel. The facility was located at Sandy Hook, a narrow coastal spit of land, approximately...
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The Todt Battery, also known as Batterie Todt, was a battery of coastal artillery built by Nazi Germany during World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelles...
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Coastal Artillery Group (4x batteries of 75/27 field guns) Coastal Artillery Group (4x batteries of 122/45 howitzers) 128th Coastal Artillery Battery...
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coastal defence sites began to be re-equipped with modern breech-loading 9.2" naval guns. These comprised the seven two-gun "Mark 10" 9.2" batteries completed...
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Blockhouse (section Coastal fortifications in Malta)
larger fortification, usually a battery or redoubt. The term blockhouse is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Middle Dutch blokhus and 18th-century...
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The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New...
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Yura Fortress (category Coastal fortifications)
group of coastal fortifications built to guard the entrance to Osaka Bay and thus the city of Osaka from attack from the sea. These gun batteries and fortifications...
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with elements of the Ground Forces and other uniformed organizations (since 2023) provide, alongside the Navy, the country's coastal defense capabilities...
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(Reserve) Artillery Battalion Artillery Battery Artillery Battery Artillery Battery Artillery Battery Anti-aircraft Battery Armored Brigade Mortar Company Tank...
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Artillery (section Counter-battery fire)
225 kg (2,701 lb) projectile from its main battery with an energy level surpassing 350 megajoules. From the Middle Ages through most of the modern era, artillery...
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gun". This type of weapon was deployed for coastal defense during the war (an 1862 map shows an external battery of them at Fort Monroe) and more widely...
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these natural defenses by modernizing the port and installing heavy coastal batteries consisting of 180mm and 305mm re-purposed battleship guns which were...
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Batterie Mirus (redirect from Mirus battery)
four 30.5 cm guns. The battery was constructed from November 1941 and through the first half of 1942, and was the largest battery in the Channel Islands...
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Second, the division was to destroy the heavily fortified Merville coastal artillery battery located at Franceville Plage, to ensure that it could not shell...
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Pre-dreadnought battleship (redirect from Intermediate battery)
which turned underwater screws. These ships distinctively carried a main battery of very heavy guns upon the weather deck, in large rotating mounts either...
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North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery (redirect from 109th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery)
and there was an urgent need for batteries of Siege artillery to be sent to France. The WO decided that the TF coastal gunners were well enough trained...
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Kissing Point Fortification (redirect from Kissing Point Battery)
its south-west. The former was built in 1891 as a two-gun battery and part of the coastal defence scheme being established to protect the colony of Queensland...
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have been used when variable energy production is low. Going forward, battery storage can be expanded, energy demand and supply can be matched, and long-distance...
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