A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle. When...
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The casemate ironclad was a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and the Union...
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Beehive Casemate is a historical fortification located on the banks of Obelisk Bay, in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Sydney...
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Grand Casemates is a building in Grand Casemates Square, Gibraltar, that was originally a fortified barracks and casemate. It is beside Grand Casemates Gates...
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Casemate Publishers is a publishing company based in the Philadelphia suburbs that specializes in producing printed military history books. They have published...
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Maginot Line. Casemate d'Auenheim Nord is an infantry casemate of the Maginot Line located in the town of Auenheim, in Alsace. The casemate is a simple...
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The casemate du Grand-Lot is an interval casemate CORF of the Maginot line, located in the city of Escherange, in the Lorraine region of France. As part...
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sector of the Maginot Line. The Casemate de Rountzenheim Sud is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog...
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01000°E / 48.82722; 8.01000 The Casemate de Rountzenheim Nord is a casemate of interval infantry of the Maginot Line. The casemate is in the town of Rœschwoog...
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The Casemate d'Oberroedern Sud, also known as Casemate Reiffel and Oberroedern Est, is a pre-World War II fortified position near the Rhine River in eastern...
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The Casemate d'Esch is a pre-World War II fortified position near the German frontier in extreme northeastern France. Built in 1931, the casemate was...
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The Casemates of Ibrahim Pasha (Turkish: İbrahim Paşa Tabyaları), are a number of casemates built by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in 1833 to the north of Gülek...
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Central battery ship (redirect from Casemate ship)
ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development of the (high-freeboard)...
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Grand Casemates Square (colloquially Casemates Square or Casemates) is the larger of the two main squares within the city centre of Gibraltar (the other...
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Mougin turret (redirect from Mougin casemate)
Mougin casemate, which employs the 155 mm Model 1877 gun on a hydraulic traversing carriage within an armored concrete casemate. The casemate has exceptionally...
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Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-04-0. World War II at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions...
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refers to anti-tank variants of existing tank chassis with a well-armored casemate superstructure that mount an anti-tank gun with limited traverse in the...
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The Fort Hommet 10.5 cm coastal defence gun casemate bunker is a fully restored gun casemate that was part of Fortress Guernsey constructed by the forces...
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Ouvrage Cap Martin (redirect from Casemate du Pont Saint Louis)
between Nice and Menton, facing towards Italy. The ouvrage and its advance casemate at Pont Saint Louis controlled the coastal roads along the Mediterranean...
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Fort Monroe (redirect from Fort Monroe Casemate Museum)
months of confinement were spent in a cell of the casemated fort walls that is now part of its Casemate Museum. Around the turn of the 20th century, numerous...
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The Casemate de Wittring is a component of the Maginot Line fortifications in northeastern France. It is located in the Fortified Sector of the Sarre section...
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a Soviet tank destroyer armed with the D-10S 100 mm anti-tank gun in a casemate superstructure. It was used extensively during the last year of World War...
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Object 268. The Object 268 was a casemate design, with a heavily armoured superstructure and powerful 152mm gun. The casemate reached 187mm of rolled homogenous...
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Ouvrage Fermont (redirect from Casemate de Puxieux)
at the same time. A series of detached casemates and observation points surround Fermont, including the: Casemate de Puxieux: Single block with one JM/AC47...
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Empire. Casemate walls could surround an entire settlement, but most only protected part of it. The three different types included freestanding casemate walls...
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The Casemate de Marckolsheim Sud is a pre-World War II fortified position near the Rhine river in eastern France. The casemate was part of an extension...
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Green-water navy Blue-water navy Gun placement Broadside Central battery Casemate Turrets Aircraft carriers Amphibious assault ship Anti-submarine warfare...
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Bock (Luxembourg) (redirect from Casemates (Luxembourg))
and the vast underground system of passages and galleries known as the casemates continue to be a major tourist attraction. It was in 963 that Count Siegfried...
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Ouvrage Bréhain (redirect from Casemate Ouest de Bréhain)
condition when compared to other abandoned Maginot positions. A flanking casemate has been restored and may be visited. Bréhain was approved for construction...
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Grand Casemates may refer to: Grand Casemates, a former casemate and barracks in Gibraltar Grand Casemates Gates, a gate in the northern defensive wall...
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