Land battery
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A Land battery is a special type gun emplacement or anti-shipping naval interdiction fortification used in coastal defence to protect areas like anchorages, harbours, and rivers or in restricted waters such as straits or channels, or coastal inland waterways which have the tactical and strategic purpose of area denial to the enemy.
In the modern era, they are primarily only built during time of war such as those constructed in both World War I and World war II against the uboat threat during the years long First Battle of the Atlantic and Second Battle of the Atlantic, or off North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and those most recently constructed in Iran and Iraq as political chips to affect world opinion, and threaten oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz or western Persian Gulf, respectively.
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