Tank battery
Armored batteries are gun stands covered by armor plates or armor sheet metal .
First, in 1869, Hermann Gruson produced such armored batteries in chilled cast iron , inspired by Schumann's armored stand . This was later emulated in France .
The armored batteries consisted mainly of pillar and notch plates in the front and the cover plates on top. The pillar plates are rounded and rise to the rear to allow enemy projectiles to slide off. The cover plates form the transition to the casemates attached to the rear .
The tank batteries, which Colonel Vogl had been building at the fortifications of Tyrol since 1885 , consisted of granite masonry with a backward sloping front wall. Each gun stand was closed by a loop plate made of compound steel ( composite material ), which was based on cast iron or cast steel blocks and whose transition to the vault was formed by a steel dome.
Armored batteries have lost their importance in the modern military and are only used occasionally.