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  2. Rooke Battery - Wikipedia

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    The derelict battery can now be found on the Royal Anglian Way which is named after the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment, who refurbished it in August 1969. The path leads up the west side to the top of the Rock passing by this battery and Hayne's Cave Battery.

  3. Disappearing gun - Wikipedia

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    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 Inside a ...

  4. 2B1 Oka - Wikipedia

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    In 1954, the Soviets began work on developing nuclear artillery. The program featured three different self-propelled guns based on the chassis of the T-10 tank: the 2A3 Kondensator 406 mm gun, the 2B1 Oka 420 mm breech-loaded mortar, and the 420 mm S-103 recoilless rifle. While the development of the S-103 was abandoned in November 1956 after ...

  5. 152 mm howitzer 2A65 Msta-B - Wikipedia

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    The 2A65 "Msta-B" (named from the Msta River) is a Soviet towed 152.4 mm howitzer.The "B" in the designation is an abbreviation for Buksiruyemaya, which means towed.This weapon has been fielded in Soviet forces since at least 1987 and as of 2022 is currently in service with Russian front and army level artillery units, as well as the militaries of six other countries, most of them former ...

  6. Abandoned Russian military vehicles are proving very useful to Ukrainian frontline defenders, who have refurbished or jerry-rigged them for special use.

  7. List of military land vehicles of Germany - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, to the split between West Germany and East Germany, through their reunification and into modern-day Germany.

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  9. Fort Serapong - Wikipedia

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    Fort Serapong is a former coastal artillery battery on Mount Serapong hill on Sentosa Island in Singapore, then known as Pulau Blakang Mati. It was one of four major batteries on the island, along with Fort Siloso , Fort Connaught and the Mount Imbiah Battery .