Its task was to attack fortified positions such as bunkers at close range ( see Hobart's Funnies ).

Coupled with this, there was the legal requirement for all supermarkets to store at least one year's supply of canned goods, etc., in blast-proof bunkers in the mountains, along with the requirement of one year's supply of oil ; civilians were required to store at least three weeks of food stuffs in their own shelter.

It was considered that coal bunkers at the sides of the ship added to protection against penetrating shells, but Germany also did not have a reliable supply of fuel oil.

Israel refused, on the grounds that Qatari supplies could be used by Hamas to build bunkers and reinforced positions from which to fire rockets at Israeli cities and towns, and that Israel did not want to get involved in the competition between Qatar and Egypt over the Middle East mediation.

It is likely that six or fewer Shillelagh missiles were fired at Iraqi bunkers ; this appears to be the only occasion in which Shillelagh missiles were fired in a combat environment, from the inventory of the aforementioned 88, 000 missiles produced.

Nearly a half dozen missiles fired at bunkers by Sheridans during Operation Desert Storm ( Iraq / Kuwait ) in January and February 1991.

The landing at the KAAOT pumping lock ran into similar problems with their landing zone but both teams at both locations regrouped and successfully assaulted the pumping locks taking the main buildings and several occupied bunkers.

Today tourists can visit a museum in Vossenack, look at a few of the surviving Siegfried Line bunkers, and take a walk along the infamous Kall Trail.

Another criticism is that bunkers can be built at greater depth to make them more difficult to reach.

* Webarchive: April 25, 1997 Sandia-led research may zap old beliefs about lightning protection at critical facilities ; Triggered lightning tests leading to safer storage bunkers

* During World War II, Sylt became a fortress, with concrete bunkers built below the dunes at the shore, some of which are still visible today.

World War II bunkers at Calais

The satellites and aircraft sensors will be able to penetrate cloud cover, detect chemical traces, and identify objects in buildings and " underground bunkers ", and will provide real-time video at much higher resolutions than the still-images produced by programs such as Google Earth.

Abandoned by the Air Force four years after construction, the fortified concrete missile bunkers long survived as ghostly landmarks, and a deactivated BOMARC missile was briefly mounted, statue-like, next to Paul Bunyan at Bass Park.

German bunkers at Longues-sur-Mer battery | Longues-sur-Mer in France.

The use of plastic pipe tethered with stakes became common, as it allowed for relatively easy reconfiguration of fields and at least some impact-absorption, and was the precursor to the modern inflatable bunker ( in fact, certain common features in inflatable fields, such as " can " and " snake " bunkers, were derived from similar features built with plastic drainage pipe ).

There is a vibrant and lively nightlife which is enjoyed by many especially in the summer, and informal dance music events often take place in abandoned bunkers (' bunker parties ') and more organised events in and around Alderney Week at the Corporation Quarry (' Quarry parties ').

After numerous JNA armored columns failed to take the city, the Serbs began to concentrate their efforts on weakening it by using continual bombardment from at least 200 reinforced positions and bunkers in the surrounding hills.

Trials at Southport, Queensland, in May 1945 were pronounced complete success, and the Projector would have been impressive against enemy bunkers, but the war ended before it was used operationally.

One of the others, most of which lies on a narrow peninsula, which juts into Castle Harbour, has been blocked by munitions bunkers that were built at the harbour end.

The civilian airport is located at the opposite end of the base from the hangars, bunkers and the SEAL building.

Today, one can still see bunkers at Sitio Guadalupe but unfortunately for the tunnels, most were deformed and even destroyed by treasure hunters and land developers.

The caves and bunkers were connected to a vast system throughout central Peleliu, which allowed the Japanese to evacuate or reoccupy positions as needed, and to take advantage of shrinking interior lines.

Flakturm on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg-one of four enormous fortress-like bunkers which were made of reinforced concrete, built between 1942 and 1944 and equipped with anti-aircraft artillery for air defense

* Infantry Casemates ( 4 ): These bunkers were armed with twin machine-guns ( abbreviated as JM in French ) and anti-tank guns of.

The petits ouvrages were generally made up of several infantry bunkers connected by an underground tunnel network to which were attached various buried facilities, such as barracks, electric generators, ventilation systems, mess halls, infirmaries, and supply caches.

These are large reinforced buried concrete bunkers, equipped with armoured turrets containing high-precision optics that were connected with the other fortifications by field telephone and wireless transmitters ( known in French by the acronym T. S. F.

These were buried concrete bunkers designed to house and shelter up to a company of infantry ( 200 to 250 men ), and had such features as electric generators, ventilation systems, water supplies, kitchens and heating, which allowed their occupants to hold out in the event of an attack.

Mine fields were deployed in some areas of Tierra del Fuego and bunkers built in the Chilean side as consequence of the threat of an Argentine invasion.

Also there were numerous bunkers in the area, mostly belonging to the deep defenses of the Westwall, which were also centers of resistance.

The " coffres " (" wall bunkers ") protecting the fort's moats with Hotchkiss revolving cannons had been left unmanned and thus the moats were wide open to enemy entry.

During World War II, the beaches of the Île de Ré were fortified by German forces with bunkers, in order to block a possible seaward invasion.

The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and of underground tunnels.

Three bunkers were set up to observe the test.

While penetrations of 20 – were sufficient for some shallow targets, both the Soviet Union and the United States were creating bunkers buried under huge volumes of soil or reinforced concrete in order to withstand the multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons developed in the 1950s and 1960s.

The German Army, on the defence, held the high ground and were aware of the intended attack ; they had been practically unmolested since October 1914, which had allowed the time needed to construct extensive trench lines and deep shellproof bunkers.

The German bunkers were up to thirty feet deep and could resist artillery fire.

As the fire-bombing campaign took effect, Japanese war planners were forced to expend significant resources to relocate vital war industries to remote caves and mountain bunkers, reducing production of war material.

Bomb shelters and bunkers were built during the war, close to or under most schools and public buildings.

In May 1940 the invaders were stopped by large bunkers

There were numerous supply bunkers, storage areas, barracks, hospitals, and command and control facilities., all concealed from aerial observation by an intricate system of natural and man-made camouflage that was constantly expanded and replaced.

Between 1937 and 1939 the fortifications were expanded with additional bunkers and a large antitank ditch.

Barbed-wire fences were replaced with harder-to-climb expanded metal barriers ; directional anti-personnel mines and anti-vehicle ditches blocked the movement of people and vehicles ; tripwires and electric signals helped guards to detect escapees ; all-weather patrol roads enabled rapid access to any point along the border ; and wooden guard towers were replaced with prefabricated concrete towers and observation bunkers.

The 7th AD expanded Manston by building concrete bunkers suitable for nuclear weapons and upgrading the support facilities for long-term use.