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    Concertina wire or Dannert wire is a type of barbed wire or razor wire that is formed in large coils which can be expanded like a concertina. In conjunction...
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    military science of fortification, wire obstacles are defensive obstacles made from barbed wire, barbed tape or concertina wire. They are designed to disrupt...
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    called roll forming. Like barbed wire, razor wire is available as either straight wire, spiral (helical) coils, concertina (clipped) coils, flat wrapped...
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    on impact, 28 had been hit by debris in the form of airplane parts, concertina wire, and items on the ground. Sixteen of the fatalities occurred in the...
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    control of a border." At the time, the barrier was a single coil of concertina wire. Throughout the morning, Schumann became distressed by West Berlin...
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  • device Wire transfer, a method of sending money directly between banks Barbed wire, steel fencing wire Chicken wire, a mesh of wire Concertina wire, a type...
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  • Weapons, the Bangalore Blade blasted a gap roughly five meters wide in concertina wire, and created a trench deep enough to detonate most nearby anti-personnel...
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    Trench warfare (section Wire)
    to use the coils of barbed wire as delivered only partially stretched out, called concertina wire. Placing and repairing wire in no man's land relied on...
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    barbed wire is used. Bangalore torpedo Barbed Wire Act 1893 Concertina wire Isaac L. Ellwood Jacob Haish Kansas Barbed Wire Museum Razor wire Wire obstacle...
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    attachment system. The scabbard lacks the wire cutter of the M9 for use when assaulting beaches or other concertina wire–fortified obstacles. List of individual...
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    features, or other barriers to prevent escape. Multiple barriers, concertina wire, electrified fencing, secured and defensible main gates, armed guard...
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    to near and far ambushes. Drills on how to breach barbed and concertina wire with wire cutters and assault ladders were taught as were techniques on...
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    complete the fence by the end of the year. The fence, which features concertina wire, is being built by contractors and a deployment of 900 soldiers at...
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    traps, obstacles (such as concertina wire and landmines), and long-range artillery fire. Further, the SADM included a Field Wire Remote Control System (FWRCS)...
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  • October 30, 2023, Moses ordered Border Patrol agents to stop removing concertina wire installed by the government of Texas with the purpose of deterring...
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    American troops blockaded roads leading into the city with Humvees and concertina wire. They also took over a local radio station and handed out leaflets...
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    Blast shelter Blast wall Border security Bomb shelter Buoy Bremer wall Concertina wire Defensive fighting position British "hedgehog" road block Czech hedgehog...
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    Anti-Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS), consists of double-row of fencing and concertina wire 8–12 feet (2.4–3.7 m) in height, and is electrified and connected to...
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    Court of Appeals that prevented Border Patrol agents from cutting concertina wire, which the National Guard had been using to make a fence in Shelby...
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  • excavating anti-vehicular ditches, installing gate locks, constructing concertina wire obstacles and fougasses, and setting up listening post/observation...
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    Kuwait by Iraq. The border barrier, made of electrified fencing and concertina wire, is braced by a 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) and 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) trench...
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    through a 5 feet (1.5 m)-high barrier of concertina wire separating the parking lot from the building. The wire popped "like somebody walking on twigs."...
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    used exclusively by the US military as an R&R center. Barriers of concertina wire blockaded access from the adjacent beaches. The hotel recouped much...
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    which would be 4 m (13 ft) high and would use multiple layers of the Concertina wire. The cost of the project was estimated at €150 million and the Lithuanian...
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  • wire to secure military operations. The 1965 escalation of the Vietnam War was accelerated by the successful penetration of ten foot high concertina wire...
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    stringing a concertina wire barrier which could have stopped the car before reaching the roadblock, but the soldiers "didn't like to use concertina wire at night...
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    components Arrow slit Abatis Banquette Wire obstacle Wire entanglement Concertina wire Barbed wire Razor wire Bartizan Bailey Inner bailey Outer bailey...
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    booby-traps, obstacles such as concertina wire and landmines, and long ranged artillery fire. Further, the SADM included a Field Wire Remote Control System (FWRCS)...
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    City and the huge defensive effort positioned there. Small fences of concertina wire marked the shoreline and models of artillery pieces lined the shore...
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    cranes to install towering panels of metal bars. They have also strung concertina wire and wrapped it around barriers to reinforce the border. On January...
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