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The Amiriyah shelter was used in the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War by hundreds of civilians. According to the U.S. military, the shelter at Amiriyah had been targeted because it fit the profile of a military command center; electronic signals from the locality had been reported as coming from the site, and spy satellites had observed people and vehicles moving in, and out of the shelter.
The facilities were divided into two categories: "surface" and "underground". The "surface" facilities were actually the "softest", and included maintenance hangars of metal construction, and HAS of concrete construction. In total, the Yugoslavs have built no less but 200 HAS on different airfields in Iraq during the 1980s.
The GBU-28 (Guided Bomb Unit‐28) is a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) class laser-guided "bunker busting" bomb produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York. It was designed, manufactured, and deployed in less than three weeks due to an urgent need during Operation Desert Storm to penetrate hardened Iraqi command centers located ...
As the managing director of Vivos, a Del Mar, Calif.-based company that's building a network of luxury bunkers throughout the U.S., Vicino and his firm sell shares in 200-person underground pods ...
A U.S. government aerial photo of munitions bunkers at Al Qa'qaa, 17 March 2003. The Al Qa'qaa high explosives controversy concerns the possible removal of about 377 tonnes of high explosives (HMX and RDX) from the Al Qa'qaa facility by the Iraqi insurgency, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Home prices may be double-dipping and dripping downward across the U.S., but there's one real estate market that's looking up, way up: luxury underground bunkers and bomb shelters. Frustrated by a ...
Bunker Name: Koolau Ranch Location: Kauai, Hawaii, U.S. Estimated Cost: $100 million. Zuckerberg’s Hawaiian estate reportedly includes a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker designed to protect ...
Yugoslavia established a large engineering and technology presence in Iraq soon after Saddam Hussein came to power. [1] [2] Upon the 2003 Iraq invasion, Western military analysts referred to maps and advice from former engineers of the now-defunct [3] Serbian company Aeroinženjering, which had built Saddam Hussein's underground bunkers along with many airports in Iraq by the 1980s.