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Ouvrage Mont Agel is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The 1930s ''ouvrage'' was built in and around the earlier mountaintop Fortress of Mont Agel. The ''ouvrage'' forms a backup to the main curtain of Alpine Line forts, and was not initially planned as part of the Alpine Line proper. Its intended function was primarily to provide heavy, long-range artillery support from a location well to the rear of the line. However, the planned 145mm heavy guns were never installed. Its site on Mont Agel, at an altitude of , is the highest point in the vcinity of Nice and Menton and commands the entire coastline, as well as the approaches from Sospel to the north. The site is now occupied by ''Base Aérienne 943'' of the French Air Force and functions as an air defense control station. ==Description== The ouvrage consists of three entry blocks (including a terminal for an aerial tram) with a guard block, one infantry block, two artillery blocks and one observation block facing Italy. The mountaintop position is unusual in having two 75mm gun turrets: due to restricted fields of fire, most Alpine ''ouvrages'' had their guns in casemates. Mont Agel, with its commanding site, could make appropriate use of turreted guns. A 145mm gun turret was planned, but not built.〔Kaufmann 2006, p. 68〕 *Block 1 (personnel entry): no armament. *Block 2 (materials entry): no armament. *Block 3 (aerial tram entry): no armament. *Block 4 (entry guard block): two machine gun ports and one machine gun turret, intended to defend the three entry points in Blocks 1-3. *Block 5 (artillery turret block): two 75mm/1933 guns in one retractable turret. *Block 6 (artillery turret block): two 75mm/1933 guns in one retractable turret. *Block 7 (infantry block): one machine gun/observation turret. *Block 8 (observation block, ''Observatiore Est de Mont-Agel''): one machine gun port, one machine gun turret and one machine gun/observation turret. Block 8 is not connected to the rest of the complex by a gallery. The Maginot blocks are concentrated in a relatively small area on the west side of the summit plateau, to the north of the Séré de Rivières ''reduit''. They are not used by the French Air Force installation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ouvrage Mont Agel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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