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The Concertainer, [1] known colloquially as the Hesco barrier [2] or Hesco bastion, [3] with HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications. [4]
A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. [ 1 ]
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, [2] at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, [a] which hosts the activities of several tenant units.
The fortifications included barriers, walls, ammunition bunkers, military quarters and other structures all intended to deter an invasion from the sea. The inside of one of the WWII bunkers found ...
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Completed in 1750, Fort Edward in Nova Scotia, Canada is the oldest remaining military blockhouse in North America. ... or in modern times, be an underground bunker.
After the Battle of Kasserine Pass (early 1943), U.S. troops increasingly adopted the modern foxhole, a vertical, bottle-shaped hole that allowed a soldier to stand and fight with head and shoulders exposed. [4] [6] The foxhole widened near the bottom to allow a soldier to crouch down while under intense artillery fire or tank attack. [4]
There are other military fortifications in coastal Sydney that feature a tunnel warfare system, such as the Georges Head Battery (which was constructed in 1801 and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999), [23] [24] Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position (which was built in 1877 and became part of the Sydney Harbour ...