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Bastions for force protection and military applicationsBastions for force protection and military applications description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090151293, Bastions for force protection and military applications. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
This application is a continuation-in-part of, and claims priority of the filing date of, U.S. Ser. No. 10/879,678, filed Jun. 29, 2004, and presently pending. The invention relates to a bastion. More particularly, the invention relates to a multiple panel-based bastion system, Which can be used, for example, for military applications and force protection. The use of bastions has been traditional ever since Roman times. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it took the form of wicker baskets filled with earth or stones. In the early twentieth century, sand bags were used. In the later twentieth century bastions took the form of gabion structures lined with geo-textiles. This latter application, was basically the use of elements originally devised for civil works applied to the military use. This structure was rapidly deployable but its main failing was its lack of fire resistance. At best, a fire retardant composite was used in some situations to delay ignition. Use of flame throwers, incendiary bombs, Molotov cocktails and even tracer bullets of machine guns (one every seven in a belt loader) in combat situations destroys the protection afforded by this conventional bastion by igniting its lining or sand bags defenses. Prior art protection barriers suffer from a number of additional drawbacks. Visual impact of prior art protection barriers is unsuitable for deployment within cities and the systems do not provide any concealment option. Deployment for long periods of time is also problematic given that barriers are exposed to environmental agents such as fungus, and UV attacks, that rapidly deteriorate them. Further, prior art protection barriers require intensive maintenance. The present invention seeks to produce a protection barrier or bastion which overcomes the above described prior art drawbacks. A protection barrier or bastion according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a multi-cell structure, for example, for military and anti-terrorist use, consisting of structures conformed by welded wire panels lined with knitted wire or expanded mesh, linked together to constitute a fire resistant cell structure. This structure is filled with sand, crushed rock or granular materials and may be camouflaged. Further, the multi-cell structure is deployable in flat or sloped terrain. The expanded metal mesh or knitted wire mesh lining may withstand a flame thrower attack successfully, without losing particulate filling material through the openings. At the same time the expanded metal mesh or knitted wire mesh lining admits rooting of plants, which helps mitigate the visual impact of the bastions in the cities. Given the nature of the mesh, the plants will grow over the bastions, changing the hard appearance to look as natural fences melding them with the landscape. The expanded mesh or knitted wire mesh lining materials are more suited to resist environmental attacks and are less maintenance demanding than prior art bastions. The wall has a continuous volume, and therefore, behaves like a monolithic rather than an adobe like structure. The infill continuity results in cavities or caverns created by impact of projectiles being filled by material coming from both damaged and adjacent cells, thus, improving the protection offered by the bastion. The bastion may further include a pinned connection system that allows continuity of cells at different heights, and thus, for the possibility of deployment in sloped terrain. To the accomplishment of the above and related objects the invention may be embodied in the form illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Attention is called to the fact, however, that the drawings are illustrative only. Variations are contemplated as being part of the invention, limited only by the scope of the claims. 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