Meriam kereta api

Jangan dikelirukan dengan Meriam rel, sejenis senjata yang menujah peluru melalui medan elektromagnetik.

Lihat juga: Kereta api perisai

Meriam kereta api, juga dipanggil meriam landasan kereta api, adalah selaras artileri besar, selalunya artileri laut lebihan, dipasang pada, diangkut oleh, dan menembak dari gerabak kereta api yang direka khas. Banyak negara telah membina meriam kereta api, tetapi yang paling terkenal ialah meriam Krupp besar yang digunakan oleh Jerman dalam Perang Dunia I dan Perang Dunia II. Meriam yang lebih kecil sering menjadi sebahagian daripada kereta api perisai. Hanya dapat digerakkan melalui landasan yang bagus, dan boleh dihancurkan oleh pengeboman artileri atau serangan udara, meriam kereta api dihapuskan selepas Perang Dunia II.

Howitzer kereta api 370 mm Perang Dunia I

Imej

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  Krupp K5, Muzium Bateri Todt, Perancis
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  MK-3-12, di Muzium Pusat Pengangkutan Keretapi, Persekutuan Rusia, di Stesen Keretapi Varshavsky, St.Petersburg
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  TM-1-180 di Taman Kemenangan Moscow Muzium Perang Patriotik Besar
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  TM-1-180, Kubu Krasnaya Gorka
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  TM-1-180 dan TM-3-12 Kubu Krasnaya Gorka
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  TM-3-12 Kubu Krasnaya Gorka
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  Meriam keretapi 7-inci (178 mm) Bethlehem Steel, Museu Militar Conde de Linhares, Brazil
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  Laras 28 sm Bruno Jerman dari Perang Dunia I, di Memorial Perang Australia, Canberra

Lihat juga

• Senarai artileri keretapi

Bibliografi

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• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.
• Doyle, David (2011). K5(E) Railgun – Detail in Action. Carollton, Texas, United States: Squadron Signal Publications. ISBN 978-0-89747-635-5.
• Engelmann, Joachim (1976). Armor in Action – German Railroad Guns. Squadron/Signal Publications. ISBN 0-89747-048-6.
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• Lewis, Emanuel Raymond (1979). Seacoast Fortifications of the United States. Annapolis, Maryland: Leeward Publications. ISBN 978-0-929521-11-4.
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• Zaloga, Steven J & Dennis, Peter (2016). Railway Guns of World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-1068-7.

Pautan luar

• "When Artillery First "Took to the Rails"
• 152 mm Finnish railway gun
• "Railwaygun Web Museum". Retrieved April 21, 2005.
• Railway Gun Museum
• K5 Eisenbahngeschutze
• United States Navy Railway Batteries
• US Army Railway Artillery in World War I
• "Gun Train Guards Ends of Panama Canal -- Rolling Fort Crosses Isthmus in Two Hours" Popular Mechanics, December 1934 pp.844-845 excellent drawings in article on the 14-inch M1920 railway gun