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Salient may refer to: Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory; Salient (geography), an elongated protrusion of a territory; Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude; Salient pole, a projecting electromagnetic pole of a field coil
A salient, also known as a bulge, is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. The salient is surrounded by the enemy on multiple sides, making the troops occupying the salient vulnerable. The opponent's front line that borders a salient is referred to as a re-entrant – that is, an angle pointing
A salient, panhandle, or bootheel is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
Redan (a French word for "projection", "salient") is a feature of fortifications. It is a work in a V-shaped salient angle towards an expected attack. It can be made from earthworks or other material. [1] The redan developed from the lunette, originally a half-moon-shaped outwork; with shorter flanks it became a redan.
The Rzhev salient had value and tied down disproportionate numbers of Soviet troops, but it is unclear if the salient was worth the loss of around 20 high quality divisions for offensive or defensive operations elsewhere in 1942. The abandonment of the salient was necessary in 1943 to create reserves for the front as a whole.
A salient in military terms is a battlefield feature that projects into an opponent's territory and is surrounded on three sides, making the occupying troops vulnerable. . Throughout World War I along the Western Front, troops engaged in mine warfare, using tunnelling and trench strategies without coordinating their attacks with one anot
As the German momentum in the north slowed, the Soviets launched Operation Kutuzov on 12 July against Army Group Centre in the Orel salient, directly north of the Kursk salient. The Bryansk Front, under the command of Markian Popov , attacked the eastern face of the Orel salient while the Western Front, commanded by Vasily Sokolovsky , attacked ...
Russian attacks on the salient in the following months were carried out every week by the same brigades and regiments, and heavy on armor. [198] There were reports of a desolated assailant of Ukrainian troops in Glushkovsky district following a strategic encirclement.