Land Coastal Defence (or Land Coastal Command, Polish: Lądowa Obrona Wybrzeża, abbr. LOW), commanded by Colonel Stanisław Dąbek (land forces), was an...

Coastal defence (or defense) and coastal fortification are measures taken to provide protection against military attack at or near a coastline (or other...

fortifications; sometimes separate land defence forts were built to protect coastal forts. Through the middle 19th century, coastal forts could be bastion forts...

Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Protection against rising sea levels in the...

as Land Coastal Defence) and Naval Coastal Command (Morska Obrona Wybrzeża, also translated as Naval Coastal Defence) formed the Coastal Defence Group...

land operations until the end of September 1939. Some 2,800 Polish soldiers under Rear Admiral Włodzimierz Steyer, part of the Land Coastal Defence formation...

were grouped under the Land Coastal Defence (Lądowa Obrona Wybrzeża), commanded by Colonel Stanisław Dąbek and Naval Coastal Defence (Morska Obrona Wybrzeża)...

The Sverige-class coastal defence ships were a class of coastal defence ships that, at the time of introduction, were the largest ships to serve in the...

conducted in diverse terrains and weather environments. Land warfare, by virtue of being conducted in defence of urban and rural population areas, dominates the...

warfare and Coastal defence force of the Royal Thai Navy. This Command is composed of the two Air Defence Regiment and one Coastal Defence Regiment. Even...

operational area. The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three branches: Coastal Defence Missile Artillery Motorized coastal defence troops Naval Infantry...

fighting vehicles Coastal artillery to protect harbours is similar conceptually, but is generally not classified as point defence. Similarly, passive...

Pomorze Voivodeship and Poznań Voivodeship. A separate force, the Land Coastal Defence, was to protect key parts of the coast as long as possible, and most...

Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Coastal Defense Brigade (126 guards. parbo) is a formation of the Coastal Defence Troops of the Russian Navy. Its Military...

the Marine Brigade of National Defense and acting commander of the Land Coastal Defence. As a person of great diligence and great organizational inventiveness...

brigades, the Engineer Battalion, and the National Defence Volunteers Division. The main element of the Land Forces is a single mechanised infantry brigade...

system. The forts on the defensive line were designed with a dual land/coastal defence role in mind, particularly the ones at the extremities but, due to...

Bastion-P (NATO reporting name SS-C-5 Stooge) is a Russian mobile coastal defence missile system. The system was developed together with the Belarusian...

still move. The two coastal defence ships were moved to the harbour in Turku where they were used to strengthen the air defences of the city. They remained...

was a young self-governing colony of Britain. It had developed no coastal defences of any consequence and was becoming increasingly sensitive to how vulnerable...

7th Pomeranian Coastal Defence Brigade (Polish: 7 Pomorska Brygada Obrony Wybrzeża) is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Polish Land Forces (based at...

Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA). The original Norwegian...

Independence, allowed him to act on his conviction that Britain's coastal defences were inadequate to prevent invasion if the Royal Navy was lured elsewhere...

defenses during the German invasion in 1939. The train was part of the Land Coastal Defence. The train was built in September 1939, at the initiative of Kapitan...

stored guns were used in combat on improvised stationary mounts by Land Coastal Defence units in the Battle of Kępa Oksywska in September 1939.[page needed]...

peacetime and the "gray" phase of the conflict. The maritime defence relies on combined use of coastal artillery, missile systems and naval mines to wear down...

at the western outskirts of Gdynia, the Polish commander of the Land Coastal Defence forces, pułkownik Stanisław Dąbek, was in a difficult position. His...

Boka Kotorska Šibenik The Coastal Defence Command was a Royal Yugoslav Army formation which commanded one infantry division and the two fortification...

of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against...

missile. The missile can be launched from helicopters, surface ships and coastal defence batteries with the help of a rocket booster, in which case it is known...