17 cm SK L/40 gun
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The 17 cm SK L/40 was a Kaiserliche Marine naval gun that was used on two classes of German pre-dreadnought battleships the Braunschweig class and the Deutschland class as their secondary battery. Lat
A 17 cm SK L/40 on a Kusten-Mittlepivot-Lafette
17-cm guns mounted in upper turret and lower casemate on starboard side of German battleship SMS Hessen.
A 17 cm SK L/40 gun in the Atlantic Wall.
17 cm SK L/40 i.R.L. auf Eisenbahnwagen.
Casemate
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A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.
17 cm SK L/40 gun
…secondary battery consisted of fourteen 17 cm SK L/40 quick-firing guns, four of which were mounted in single turrets amidships, with the remaining ten in casemates around the superstructure. These guns had a total of 1,820 shells, for 130 rounds per gun and a rate of fire of approximately 6 per minute. To transit…
A mid-19th century artillery casemate at Fort Knox, Maine
An ancient casemate wall at Masada
Embrasures for artillery casemates in the flank of a bastion at the 17th-century Citadel of Arras.
Three tiers of artillery casemates at the mid-19th century Fort Point, San Francisco