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QALANDYIA, WEST BANK - OCTOBER 9: Israeli border policemen move into position near to the separation barrier during clashes with Palestinians throwing rocks and bottles on October 6, 2009 in Qalandyia, south of Ramallah, West Bank. Israeli border police and army clashed with Palestinians for several hours as Palestinians prepare for a general strike on Friday to protest the continued strife surrounding a holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
Israeli Defence Force officer cadets from the Geffen Battalion at Training Base 1 during a field training exercise - storming straight into thorny bushes and dense vegetation, preparing them for the anything they may encounter in the next conflict – January 2012
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israel - Yahalom Unit Exercise
Special unit of the Corps of Engineers, Yahalom, held a demonstration exercise at the urban warfare facility – 4th March 2012
Yahalom unit is the most elite unit of the Engineering Corps and one of the IDF's elite units. This is the professional body that provides a solution for operational purposes in sabotage, bomb disposal, dealing with the threat of tunnels and the like.
Photos: Ftian Ibrahim - IDF Spokesman Unit
Israeli Defence Force Recruits for a Field intelligence unit during their basic training course - 2011
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israeli Soldiers from a number of Different Infantry Brigades training with the TOW Anti-Tank Missile System – 3rd October 2011
Haruv Battalion Drill - Kfir Brigade
Israeli Soldiers from the Haruv Battalion of the Kfir Brigade - The battalion drill took place at a training base in southern Israel – 10th September 2012
Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Israeli soldiers patrol along the border fence between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria next to the Druze village of Majdal Shams on May 20, 2011, as Israel boosted security in the Golan Heights, sending troops and police to the northern region and denying access to non-residents amid fears that protesters could repeat May 15 demonstrations that saw dozens breach a security fence and enter from Syria.
Somalias Defence Minister Mohamed Sheikh Hassan makes a speech during the 54th Anniversary of the Somali National Army held at the Army Headquarters on 12th April 2014. AU UN IST PHOTO / David Mutua
If you look to the top right of the picture the natural erosion has fashioned the rock and vegetation into what looks like profile of a Lion.
When wielding a camera instead of weapons of war it is much easier to capture the defences at Tantallon. The formidable outer earthen ramparts are quickly walked past on the level path that snakes in front of and through the earthworks so as to make good targets of the attackers. The current defenders Historic Environment Scotland guardian this structure and many others in Scotland. The helpful guides safely preserve the expansive ruin and provide the on site shop of many wonders. Nowadays Tantallon Castle is best very gently and very courteously approached rather than attacked. With a brief stop at the entrance and gift shop the potential of a great visit is easily unlocked. Tantallon has seen defence, aggression and now tourism. It is a superb historic and beautiful site to daunder around. The link below should provide access details including, price and opening hours.
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Tantallon Castle Near North Berwick, East Lothian, EH39 5PN
Historic Environment Scotland
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/tantall...
Left to right: Damir Krsticevic (Minister of Defence, Croatia) talking with Jim Mattis (US Secretary of Defense)
Israeli Defence Force Recruits for a Field intelligence unit during their basic training course - 2011
Israeli Soldiers from The Nitzan 636 special unit called "Chameleon" – the unit operates in the West Bank – seen during a training exercise – January 2012
Israeli Soldiers from The Nitzan 636 special unit called "Chameleon" – the unit operates in the West Bank – seen during a training exercise – January 2012
Soldiers from the Israeli Army Nahal Brigade during a large scale training exercise on the Golan, November 2010
Original visit photos from 2013 – www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/9QptB12vKi
– Coastal Defence/chain Home Low Station M136 –
The site of a Coastal Defence/Chain Home Low (CD/CHL) Radar Station at Pakefield. It was built by the British Army to monitor shipping and aircraft during World War II. CD/CHL sites opened from 1941 and comprised either a Nissen hut or brick/concrete operations block with an aerial gantry mounted on the roof and a separate standby set house for the reserve power.
Staff were billeted where possible, but some stations had a small layout of domestic hutting situated within one mile of the site. The station closed by December 1942 and by 1978 the site was used for quarrying. Aerial photography from 1978 shows that the site was a quarry and its associated buildings. It is unclear if any of these buildings were originally part of the radar stations.
Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II. The name refers to CHL's ability to detect aircraft flying at altitudes below the capabilities of the original Chain Home (CH) radars, where most CHL radars were co-located. CHL could reliably detect aircraft flying as low as 500 feet. The official name was AMES Type 2, referring to the Air Ministry Experimental Station at Bawdsey Manor where it was developed, but this name was almost never used in practice.
The system had originally been developed by the British Army's research group, also based at Bawdsey, as a system for detecting enemy shipping in the English Channel. It was built using the electronics being developed for the aircraft interception radar systems, which worked on the 1.5 m band. This high frequency (200 MHz), for the era, allowed it to use smaller antennas that could be swung back and forth to look for returns, in contrast to the enormous fixed antennas of the 6.7 m wavelength (45 MHz) Chain Home system.
When the war began, the Luftwaffe began mine-laying missions where the bomber aircraft would fly almost all of their mission at low altitude. Chain Home could only see targets above 1.5 degrees over the horizon, so these aircraft only became visible at short range. Robert Watson Watt seized several dozen of the Coastal Defense (CD) systems that were in final construction and installed them at CH stations and key locations along the seashore to fill this critical gap in the coverage.
CHL remained an important part of the Chain network for the rest of the war, and was retained in the post-war era until it was replaced during the ROTOR upgrades by the AMES Type 80. The electronics, notably the high-power transmitter, was also re-used in a number of other systems, including the AMES Type 7.
CHL traces its origins to early experiments with aircraft interception radar systems in 1936. These were developed as a short-range radar that would be used to close the gap between Chain Home's (CH) approximate 5 miles accuracy and the visual range of a night fighter pilot at about 1,000 yards. Developed by a team at Bawdsey Manor led by ''Taffy'' Bowen, the new radar had to operate at much shorter wavelengths in order to limit the antenna sizes to something that could be practically fit on an aeroplane. After considerable experimentation, the team settled on a set working at 4ft 11in wavelength, about 193 MHz in the VHF band.
In early experiments with the new set, the team found that detection of other aircraft was problematic due to their target's relatively small size, but especially due to reflections off the ground. The latter caused a very strong signal that appeared to be at a range equal to the aircraft's current altitude, and everything beyond that was invisible in the resulting clutter. This meant that a typical night bombing run by German aircraft at 15,000 feet altitude would only become visible at that range, far less than the desired minimum of 5 miles (26,000 ft).
These same experiments demonstrated an unexpected side-effect. As the aircraft flew around over Bawdsey, which is located on the coast of the English Channel, the team found strong constant returns that they later realised were the cranes at the Harwich docks, miles away. Other smaller returns were quickly identified as boats in the Channel. These were being detected at ranges far beyond the maximum range against aircraft, in spite of the antennas not being designed for this role.
The potential of this discovery was not lost, and Robert Watson-Watt asked the team to demonstrate the concept in a real-world setting. A series of military exercises in the Channel in September 1937 provided a perfect test. On 3rd September the team's test aircraft, Avro Anson K6260, detected several Royal Navy ships in the Channel, and the next day repeated this performance in spite of almost completely overcast skies. Albert Percival Rowe of the Tizard Committee later commented that ''This, had they known, was the writing on the wall for the German Submarine Service''.
Information sourced from –
www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
This is my entry for the theme bending contest. This is the alternate build to the set 7196 Chauchilla Cemetery Battle. As you can see there is two knights guarding the passage to a kingdom, with an opposing enemy.
2fm's Dave Sherry swam the River Liffey live on air, Dublin CD's Water Rescue Crews were at hand to assist
Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers arrive to an army base as some 16,000 reserve troops are drafted in, on November 16, 2012 near southern border, Israel. Conflict between the Israeli military and Palestian miltants has intensified over the last few days, with Israel striking some 130 targets overnight.
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israel Defence Force officer cadets from the Geffen Battalion at Training Base 1 during a field training exercise - storming straight into thorny bushes and dense vegetation, preparing them for the anything they may encounter in the next conflict – January 2012
Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, following a protest against the expansion of the nearby Israeli settlement of Halamish on March 26, 2010.
Sequoia are actually amazing. Their bark protects them from bugs, fire and cold and it will regrow around fire scars or other damage.
QALANDYIA, WEST BANK - OCTOBER 9: Israeli border policemen take position during clashes with Palestinians throwing rocks and bottleson October 6, 2009 in Qalandyia, south of Ramallah, West Bank. Israeli border police and army clashed with Palestinians for several hours as Palestinians prepare for a general strike on Friday to protest the continued strife surrounding a holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.