Coastal artillery
Videos
Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.
An Ottoman redoubt of the Dardanelles Fortified Area. The weapon is possibly a German-made 28 cm SK L/40 gun on a coast defense mount.
50-pounder Model 1811 Columbiad (7.25 inch or 184 mm bore) and center-pivot mounting designed by George Bomford as an experimental coastal defense gun. This gun was built in 1811 as a component of the Second System of US fortifications.
Japanese 11-inch howitzer firing; shell visible in flight
A model of site no. 4 Heliodor Laskowski's Artillery Battery No. 31 (XXXI)
The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through
The harbor of Manila and surrounding areas
12-inch (305 mm) mortars of Battery Way, Fort Mills in 2007.
12-inch (305 mm) gun on a disappearing carriage, generally similar to other 10-inch through 14-inch disappearing batteries.
Fort Drum. Temporary wooden barracks on the fort's deck are visible near the fire control tower.