By: Arabella-Cox - 4th August 2005 at 10:58
The Russian system is called Bereg and uses a 130mm gun on a wheeled truck based mount. The other vehicles in the unit including rest vehicle, command vehicle etc are all based on the same truck model and the system can operate with the Bal-E which has just been accepted for service. (the Bal-E is the truck launched Kh-35 Uran, with 16 launch tubes per vehicle).
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd August 2005 at 05:34
Q
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st August 2005 at 15:39
The Norwegian coastal artillery gradually turned into the coastal ranger command (specialised naval infantry). All the coastal forts are mothballed now, I think.
By: johnestauffer - 1st August 2005 at 15:36
The Russians have a s/p 13cm coast defense battery (guns, tracking vehicles & f/c vehicles). I don’t know if any have entered service.
By: Ja Worsley - 1st August 2005 at 10:21
Are there any pics of these systems?
By: Forestin - 1st August 2005 at 07:10
Spain has also still coast artillery, thought it is now Mobile
By: Ja Worsley - 1st August 2005 at 06:02
yeah I was reading about them on China Defence!
By: hallo84 - 1st August 2005 at 05:49
Taiwan still have massive coastal guns 200+mm… Just take a search on google you’d be able to find out a lot about them.
By: Ja Worsley - 1st August 2005 at 03:19
Hawk: mate didn’t you mention some time ago that Croatia still has a coastal artillery section in their Army?
By: JGR - 1st August 2005 at 02:22
Finland
It appears that Finland still has coastal artillery (http://www.mil.fi/maavoimat/kalustoesittely/00138_en.dsp). However, according to another link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Navy) traditional artillery is being replaced by missiles.
Take care.
JGR
Sign In
August 1, 2005 at 12:57 am