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A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. [ 1 ]
A bunker commonly has two doors, one of which is convenient, and in peacetime use, and the other is strong. Naturally, the shelter must always have a secondary exit which can be used if the primary door is blocked by debris. Door shafts may double as ventilation shafts to reduce the digging, although this is inadvisable.
Reconstructed European wooden keep at Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, France, has a strong resemblance to a North American western frontier log blockhouse A blockhouse is a small fortification , usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes , allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. [ 1 ]
Bunker Name: Survival Condos Location: Kansas, U.S. Estimated Cost: Units start at $3 million. Larry Hall, an engineer-turned-property-developer, transformed decommissioned missile silos into ...
A bunker in southeast Georgia is listed by Harry Norman, Realtors for the "bargain" price of $17.5 million. The luxury apartments within it even have 3-foot-thick walls that can withstand a 20 ...
On D-Day, a mixed group of forced labourers held by German forces take shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker, but are then entombed when the entrances are blocked by shelling damage. By coincidence, the bunker is a storehouse, so the prisoners have enough food and wine to last them for years.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan reportedly plan to build a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker on their Hawaii property.
In addition, bunker design was arranged in "series", the 1939 designs with A and B thickness falling into the 100 series. Later 400 , 500 and 600 series were created, the new series were more designed to enable the casemate to be capable of taking captured weapons than to be stronger, the 400 series was designed for Czechoslovakian weapons.