Disappearing gun
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A disappearing gun, which is a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to be hidden from direct fire and observation. The overwhelming majority of
British 64 pounder rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda
The BL 8 inch disappearing gun of the South Battery, at North Head in Devonport, New Zealand
A U.S. Coast Artillery battery with two guns on disappearing carriages
Annotated photograph of an M1901 Buffington–Crozier disappearing carriage for an M1900 12-inch gun
Maginot Line
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The Maginot Line is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s. Named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, it was constructed on the
Disappearing gun
…associated guns were removed from service in the 1920s. A Fahrpanzer road-mobile turret with 53 mm gun at the Athens War Museum Retractable turret of the Maginot Line In 1893 Germany's Hermann Gruson developed an armored turret for a 53 mm gun called a "Fahrpanzer" (mobile armor) that had both road- and rail-mobile…
Entrance to Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, Maginot Line in Alsace
A soldier from the Cameron Highlanders looks through a periscope in the Fort de Sainghain on the Maginot Line, 3 November 1939.
Food distribution to French troops in Maginot line. 1939.
Casemate of Dambach Nord, Fortified Sector of the Vosges, Subsector of Philippsbourg