South Korea returned fire from its coastal artillery.

Whole batteries of siege-guns and coastal artillery discharging en masse, ranks of 'em ripple-firing along wall-tops.

The seventy-year-old man in the dressing gown, a retired major from the coastal artillery, as it turned out, was their nearest neighbour.

The Defence Force had been considering selling the land at Watts Peninsula, which includes the strategic coastal artillery battery of Fort Ballance.

Nuke-seeking upstarts such as Iran and North Korea have deployed ships, submarines, coastal artillery and even hovercraft in bold defiance of world concern.