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2017-03-20 Home Front: WoT

Here are the design plans for Trump's border wall

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 They should add a few bear traps, fire ant mounds, swinging logs on ropes, and trip wire air horns to enhance their chances in the bidding process. (Just my opinion)

Posted by Jusoger Glereper2282 2017-03-20 00:05|| 2017-03-20 00:05|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-20 00:08|| 2017-03-20 00:08|| Front Page Top

#3 No bid shall be considered successful unless it proposes the use of alligators with fricking lasers on their foreheads.

Posted by Steve White 2017-03-20 00:09|| 2017-03-20 00:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Green solar-run lasers are cool
For keeping poor kids from their gruel.
The hours of darkness
Are equally heartless
As up pops the nuclear fuel.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-20 01:09|| 2017-03-20 01:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I would think that we would learn a lot from the Israeli experience. The wall should be part of an overall system.

I had a colleague in USGS who worked in South Korea installing seismometers and thousands of miles of cables to detect NORK digging under the DMZ.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-03-20 09:39|| 2017-03-20 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 As I recall from my time in Korea they would bore to the line then plant engineered charges to bring the ceiling down as a exit ramp.

Big enough transit for armor or a 'deuce' but often simply forward logistic storage.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-20 10:27|| 2017-03-20 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 How does the Israeli wall compare?

About 90-95% of the barrier will be constructed as a "multi-layered fence system"[24] with the IDF's preferred design having three fences, pyramid-shaped stacks of barbed wire on the two outer fences, a lighter-weight fence with intrusion detection equipment in the middle, an anti-vehicle ditch, patrol roads on both sides, and a smooth strip of sand for "intrusion tracking".[25]
The barrier contains an on-average 60-metre (200 ft) wide exclusion area.[26] The width of some sections is larger (up to 100 metres (330 ft)) due to topographic conditions.[27] The width of some sections (about 6% of the barrier) is 3 metres (9.8 ft) where the barrier is constructed as a concrete wall up to 8 metres (26 ft) high. These sections are narrower, require less land, and provide more protection against snipers. Wall construction is more common in urban settings, e.g., Qalqilyah and Jerusalem, and in areas where people have been killed by snipers Wiki

Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-20 15:02|| 2017-03-20 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Walls are fine but without appropriate Rules of Engagement they won't matter.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-03-20 19:24|| 2017-03-20 19:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Walls contain as well as prevent entry.
What are the blow-in-place provisions?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-20 22:02|| 2017-03-20 22:02|| Front Page Top

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