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Fort St Angelo - Birgu, Malta - Historic Gun Emplacements of Battery No. 4

The historic gun positions of Battery No. 4 at Fort St Angelo in Birgu, Malta, featuring surviving curved artillery tracks, limestone paving and defensive parapets overlooking Grand Harbour.

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.

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