Barrage is a military term covering a wide range of structures, devices, or measures for destroying something to constrain or impede the movement of troops and forces.
[2][4] During the Russo-Turkish War in 1877–1878 Russian military engineers continued to develop the practice of using stone fougasses and mine underwater barrages.
[1][2][3][4] As a rule, in those days, the front lines of Russian explosive barrages consisted of self-acting mines, about 656 feet 2 inches (200 meters) behind them were exposed fougasses controlled by wire.
During an assault on Mount High on a position equipped by them on the night of Nov. 26, 1904 on the wire killed by Russian data, up to 150 Japanese soldiers.
[5] During World War I the first designs of anti-tank mines were immediately developed as armored weapons and vehicles appeared on the battlefield.
[4] During the war Russian military engineers – Dragomirov, Gritskevich, Revensky – proposed a number of original designs of various mines, which were used in barrage systems of different purposes.
[4] In the 1920s and 1930s an intensive development of a coherent theoretical basis for the use of barrages on the scale of battle or operation began in Soviet Union.
[1][2][3][4] The experience of World War II greatly enriched the practice of barrage systems, which on land were used in all types of combat operations.
During the Battle of Moscow the Soviets first resorted to the tactic of mobile mining, which was later successfully used many times to counteract Wehrmacht armored wedges.
[1] By scale of application[1]: By location[1][2][3]: By nature of impact[1][2][3]: By purpose[1]: Each individual barrage on the ground is characterized by its depth, length and time of delay of the enemy in overcoming it.