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.
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
Jagdtiger
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The Jagdtiger is a German casemate-type heavy tank destroyer of World War II. It was built upon the slightly lengthened chassis of a Tiger II. Its ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 186.
Jagdtiger (S/N 305020) while displayed at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum's former site at Aberdeen, Maryland, in 2008
A wooden mockup of the Jagdtiger presented to Adolf Hitler on the 20th of October 1943, seen here behind the Italian medium tank Carro Armato P 26/40
Rear deck and engine bay of Jagdtiger 305004 in The Tank Museum, Bovington. The two circular grilled apertures at left and right are for the radiator cooling fans.
Model of the eight-wheel, Porsche suspension variant