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Armstrong 100-Ton Gun - Fort Rinella, Malta - Victorian Coastal Artillery in Camouflage

The enormous Armstrong 100-ton gun at Fort Rinella in Kalkara, Malta, showing its distinctive camouflage-painted barrel, massive mounting and historic coastal artillery emplacement overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Fort Rinella - Kalkara, Malta - Historic Ammunition Railway Inside the Fort

Historic narrow-gauge ammunition tracks running through a vaulted limestone chamber at Fort Rinella in Kalkara, Malta, illustrating the ammunition-handling arrangements associated with the Armstrong 100-ton coastal defence gun.

Fort Rinella - Kalkara, Malta - Sunken Passageway and Concealed Fortifications

An internal passageway at Fort Rinella in Kalkara, Malta, showing the limestone walls, recessed entrance, access staircase and grassy defensive embankments that helped conceal the Victorian coastal fortress within the landscape.

Historic Field Gun - Fort Rinella, Malta - Artillery Firing Demonstration

A historic field gun fires during a live artillery demonstration at Fort Rinella in Kalkara, Malta, producing a spectacular cloud of white smoke and glowing sparks above the limestone fortifications.

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