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The TH10 had a 4,800 mm (190 in) wheelbase and a 110 PS (81 kW) DS10 diesel inline-six. [1] Around the time of introduction, the BH10 bus was introduced, with the same chassis and nose. [ 2 ] In 1954 the TH11 appeared, followed by the 125 PS TH12 in 1955. [ 3 ]
In its most basic form, a forward operating base consists of a ring of barbed wire around a position with a fortified entry control point, or ECP. An ECP is a controlled entry and exit point of the FOB and typically has positions to protect personnel against personnel-borne improvised explosive devices ( PBIED ) and vehicle-borne improvised ...
The Burroughs 416L SAGE component (ESD Project 416L, [65] Semi Automatic Ground Environment System) [49] was the Cold War network connecting IBM supplied computer system at the various DC and that created the display and control environment for operation of the separate radars [65] and to provide outbound command guidance for ground-controlled ...
In addition, bunker design was arranged in "series", the 1939 designs with A and B thickness falling into the 100 series. Later 400 , 500 and 600 series were created, the new series were more designed to enable the casemate to be capable of taking captured weapons than to be stronger, the 400 series was designed for Czechoslovakian weapons.
In United States agricultural law, a farm’s base acreage is its crop-specific acreage of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, soybeans, canola, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sunflowers, and rice eligible to enroll in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1101-1108).
A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps. FSBs follow a number of plans, their shape and construction varying based on the terrain they occupy and the ...
An Indian Wehrmacht volunteer in a Tobruk DFP along the Atlantic Wall, 1944. During the fighting in North Africa (1942–43), U.S. forces employed the shell scrape.This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and small arms fire.