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'''Warlike''' allows you to explore details and connections between fortifications, ships, battles, military museums and technology. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just plan a grand day out. Sites have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.
'''Warlike''' allows you to explore details and connections between fortifications, battles, military museums, ships, vehicles, aircraft and weapons. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just plan a grand day out. Pages have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.


Part of the part of the '''[https://help.expounder.info Expounder]''' family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses [https://wikidata.org Wikidata] as a backbone to display [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia] data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.
Part of the '''[https://help.expounder.info Expounder]''' family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses [https://wikidata.org Wikidata] as a backbone to display [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia] data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.


For example, just in [[Q67479626|Kent]] [[Q145|UK]], you have [[Q950970|Dover Castle]], [[Q2406192|C-class destroyer]] [[Q5631813|HMS Cavalier]], armed with [[Q1548451|QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V guns]] which took part in [[Q3293979|Operation Grapple]], and [[Q1124859|Oberon-class]] [[Q2811|submarine]] [[Q5633565|HMS Ocelot]] back at [[Chatham Dockyard]] where it was built. [[Q10683167|Subterranea Britannica]] have detailed articles on the [[Q26676412|Gravesend Cold War Bunker]], [[Q113296230|Ramsgate Tunnels]] and [[Q20711474|Fan Bay Deep Shelter]] in their magazine [[Q115785692|Subterranea]].
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The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. '''It only covers British stuff at the moment, but will be expanded to be worldwide.''' Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact [https://www.johnbray.org.uk/ John Bray]
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For example, in the [[Q145|UK]] you have [[Q950970|Dover Castle]], [[Q5087663|Chatham Historic Dockyard]] with the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy's]] [[Q2406192|C-class destroyer]] [[Q5631813|HMS Cavalier]], armed with [[Q1548451|QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V guns]] which took part in [[Q3293979|Operation Grapple]], and [[Q1124859|Oberon-class]] [[Q2811|submarine]] [[Q5633565|HMS Ocelot]] with [[Q5470717|Fort Amherst]] nearby. [[Q10683167|Subterranea Britannica]] have detailed articles on the [[Q26676412|Gravesend Cold War Bunker]], [[Q113296230|Ramsgate Tunnels]] and [[Q20711474|Fan Bay Deep Shelter]] in their magazine [[Q115785692|Subterranea]].
 
The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact [https://www.johnbray.org.uk/ John Bray]
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Latest revision as of 20:56, 7 October 2024

Warlike allows you to explore details and connections between fortifications, battles, military museums, ships, vehicles, aircraft and weapons. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just plan a grand day out. Pages have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.

Part of the Expounder family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses Wikidata as a backbone to display Wikipedia and Wikimedia data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.

  • overviews

    overviews

  • custom searches

    custom searches

  • timelines

    timelines

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia

  • galleries

    galleries

  • tables

    tables


For example, in the UK you have Dover Castle, Chatham Historic Dockyard with the Royal Navy's C-class destroyer HMS Cavalier, armed with QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V guns which took part in Operation Grapple, and Oberon-class submarine HMS Ocelot with Fort Amherst nearby. Subterranea Britannica have detailed articles on the Gravesend Cold War Bunker, Ramsgate Tunnels and Fan Bay Deep Shelter in their magazine Subterranea.

The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact John Bray

It has 63,382 pages on 22,187 sites, 14,792 objects, 16,049 classes, 85 subpages, 212 areas, 3,099 events, 3,084 organisations and 46 publications.

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