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...

The gun battery was designed by NSW Colonial Government and built during 1893. It is also known as Ben Buckler Gun Battery 1893, 9.2 Disappearing Gun and...

of "RBL" guns that are typically referred to as "Armstrong guns". Rifled breech loader Disappearing gun for the Armstrong Disappearing Gun. Holley states...

less protection than the latter. The disappearing gun was a variation on the barbette gun; it consisted of a heavy gun on a carriage that would retract behind...

is a list of disappearing gun installations. These are artillery installed behind fortification walls with mechanisms that lift the gun for firing and...

were installed on disappearing carriages, with early installations on low-angle barbette mountings. From 1919, 19 long-range two-gun batteries were built...

had four gun batteries: Battery Winchester with one 12-inch M1888 disappearing gun, Battery McFarland with three 8-inch M1888 disappearing guns, Battery...

combination of two disappearing 6-inch guns and two guns on pedestal mounts. Batteries Gillmore and Spear were originally a 7-gun battery under the former...

provided four 6-inch rapid-fire disappearing guns. These batteries were supplemented in 1899 by a pair of 12-inch guns at Fort Sumter. Forts Moultrie and...

most disappearing guns (except the M1897, shorter than the others) were dismounted for use as field guns, while most of the few pedestal guns dismounted...

installed on disappearing carriages, with early installations on barbette mountings. All of the weapons not in the Philippines (except four guns in Canada)...

gun M1888 (203 mm) was a U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps gun, initially deployed 1898–1908 in about 75 fixed emplacements, usually on a disappearing carriage...

World War I, Sir Ernest William Moir produced a design for concrete machine-gun pillboxes constructed from a system of interlocking precast concrete blocks...

the sloped opening. A series of perpendicular "steps" that tapered to the gun port ensured that any incoming fire that struck the inward-facing surface...

p. 341 Gröner, p. 8 Sondhaus, pp. 80–88 "The Moncrieff System of Disappearing Gun Carriages, p. 122 Hodges, p. 33 Burt, p. 85 Wilson, p. 287 Wilson,...

Armstrong gun and automatic naval carriage and slide Describes 25-ton gun supplied to Victoria. From Australian National Archives Mk III disappearing mounting...

on hydro-pneumatic disappearing mountings and Vavasseur slides (inclined slides that absorbed recoil). From 1895 many ships' guns were converted to QF...

defence and fortification Seacoast defense in the United States Gun laying Disappearing gun Anti-ship ballistic missile Chung, Ong Chit (2011). Operation...

Battery Stanley 1 14-inch disappearing gun Battery Mower 1 14-inch disappearing gun Battery Kilpatrick 2 6-inch disappearing guns Battery Sedgwick Pratt...

counterweight disappearing guns Richardson: (2) 12" counterweight disappearing guns Bloomfield: (2) 12" counterweight disappearing guns Halleck: (3) 10"...

Artillery Corps. Most were installed on single gun disappearing carriages; the only installation with four guns in twin turrets was built at the unique Fort...

advantage of the gun lift carriage not found in most US disappearing gun installations was 360° all-around fire. Battery Potter (known as "Gun Lift Battery...

M1895 disappearing guns on Buffington-Crozier carriages. Batteries Hall and Woodruff each mounted two 6-inch (152 mm) M1905 guns, also on disappearing carriages...

disappearing guns at Chulachomklao Fort, Bangkok, Thailand. See File:Armstrong cannon, Chulachomklao fort.jpg A Mk V gun on reproduction disappearing...

M1898 Driggs-Seabury gun with masking parapet (simplified disappearing) mounts, at least 111 of which had been emplaced. The disappearing function had already...

Hudson included an emplacement for the United States' first type of disappearing gun, a 15-inch Rodman on King's depression carriage, which was not widely...

for 8 inch Rifled Breech Loading Armstrong Gun and Hydro-Pneumatic Disappearing Carriage Describes Mk VII gun. From Australian National Archives Instructions...

(305 mm) guns on disappearing carriages, twelve 12-inch (305 mm) mortars, two 10-inch (254 mm) disappearing guns, five 6-inch (152 mm) disappearing guns, and...

by the Spanish in 1812 until 1997. In 1904, it was fortified with disappearing gun installations known as Battery Chamberlin, which can still be viewed...

all-around-fire M1917 disappearing carriage, with elevation increased from 15° to 30°. An additional six of the Army-designed M1919 guns were built and deployed...