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    A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Revetments (aircraft). Revetment (a sloped wall) Hardened aircraft shelter Flint, Peter (1985). R.A.F. Kenley. Terence...
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    Hangar (redirect from Aircraft hangar)
    front of a Hardened Aircraft Shelter, a special type of hangar Helicopter hangar of the German research vessel Polarstern A medium-sized aircraft hangar at...
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    Tornado air defence squadron. To accommodate these new aircraft, extensive hardened aircraft shelters (HAS) and support facilities were built. No. 5 Squadron...
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    military aircraft, usually dug into the side of a mountain for protection. It is bigger and more protected than a hardened aircraft shelter (HAS). An...
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    the Sde Teiman detention camp. RAF built Hardened aircraft shelter RAF British built hardened aircraft shelter Training plane in Sde Tayman על המשמר⁩,...
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    concrete with heavy-grade steel doors. A hardened aircraft shelter can typically accommodate two fighter aircraft, along with all required ground support...
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    which defenders can fire weapons. It is in effect a trench firing step, hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades, and raised to improve...
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    bridges, but can also be used against ships up to 10,000 tonnes, hardened aircraft shelters and concrete runways. Design started in the late 1970s at the...
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    'a call to cockpit'. In this scenario the pilot races to the hardened aircraft shelter and does everything short of starting his engines". On 4 October...
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    systems built into the concrete floor of a specially-secured Hardened Aircraft Shelter. One vault can hold up to four nuclear weapons and in the lowered...
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    Brüggen and Laarbruch formed the largest Tornado force in NATO. Hardened Aircraft Shelters were equipped with the U.S. Weapon Storage Security System (WS3)...
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    infrastructure was extremely poor, and no airfields were yet equipped with hardened aircraft shelters capable of protecting Egypt's warplanes in the event of an attack...
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  • June 2011. US rocket-boosted submunition against runways and hardened aircraft shelters. Young, C.W. (1997). Penetration equations (PDF) (Report). Vol...
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    wings of aircraft to stop accidental attacks on Swiss aircraft by Allied aircraft. From 1943 Switzerland shot down American and British aircraft, mainly...
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    Squadron flew from 'Delta Dispersal', with both squadrons using the hardened aircraft shelters in 'Charlie Dispersal' for spare space to house Phantoms when...
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    Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) facilities were built in the northern hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) complex and alterations were made to hangars 1 and 3 and...
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    and a number of these aircraft visited on exercises in the 1970s and 1980s. During 1980–83, twenty-four hardened aircraft shelters (HAS) were constructed...
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    was performed in the 70s. Nowadays very few state built shelters remain intact, although hardened cellars still remain in the basements of most buildings...
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    Force aircraft including 6 MiG-29s destroyed in air-to-air combat. A number of G-4 Super Galebs were destroyed in their hardened aircraft shelter by bunker-busting...
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    control point (ECP) Electric fence Fallout shelter Fire support base Flak tower Hardened aircraft shelter Hesco bastion Kabal Loophole Main line of resistance...
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    War Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II Air raid shelter Blast shelter Fallout shelter Underground living "Comment | Uncovered: the WW2 'Scallywag...
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    adjacent to the Paphos International Airport has a runway, taxiway, hardened aircraft-shelters, and integrated command, control and communication facilities...
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    the facilities to rubble and destroying nearly all of the 50 hardened aircraft shelters. Coalition cluster bombs cratered the taxiways and the Iraqis...
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    designed for use against reinforced concrete buildings, specifically hardened aircraft shelters. Its heavy steel shell allows the round to penetrate the hangar...
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  • Tunnel the A2 near Lucerne. Originally designed as the largest civilian shelter of Switzerland and one of the largest in the world and subject to annual...
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    dispersed aircraft parking, revetments, hardened aircraft shelters, or even underground hangars, to protect aircraft from enemy attack. Combat aircraft require...
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  • intervention in 2011 because in its 43 hardened aircraft shelters were stored almost exclusively decommissioned aircraft, so they were not deemed a threat...
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    has one 3,048 m (10,000 ft)-long runway, located among about 57 hardened aircraft shelters. Tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base. Among them are...
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  • Survey", there were 12 hardened aircraft shelters at FOB MacKenzie in 1991. At each end of the main runway are hardened aircraft shelters knowns as "trapezoids"...
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