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Other nations built castles in Afghanistan using the same HESCO bastion [1] techniques shown in the article, don't think they were as interesting shapes though.
by rjsw 6y ago
Other nations built castles in Afghanistan using the same HESCO bastion [1] techniques shown in the article, don't think they were as interesting shapes though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
- gonzo41 6y agoYeah they were usually just a boring circle. But there was a time around 2007 in Iraq I traveled through a combat outpost that was made with 15 meter high concrete walls and had turrets (which also held guns) on 4 sides. It was a proper little castle. Though the enemy in Iraq did have a lot of mortars so the patrols stationed did see causalities from indirect fire.
- jack_riminton 6y agoYes our patrol base in Afghanistan was made partly of these and partly of the adobe mud walls of the compound we were in. This shape would've been really useful, as on more than one occasion people were able to sneak up by utilising the visibility dead-zones