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Border wall prototype construction wrapping up
ABC 10 News ^ | Oct. 18, 2017 | Laura Acevedo

Posted on 10/18/2017 8:03:44 PM PDT by conservative98

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) -- Contractors working on the border wall prototypes have a week to finish their models.

10News got a tour of the construction site on Wednesday morning. Construction started on Sept. 26.

(Excerpt) Read more at 10news.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; borderwallprototypes; trump; wall
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To: conservative98

If you think the Mehsicans are mad now, wait til they start getting duns from our debt collectors.
Or better yet, garnishments on the debt owed for this wall they made necessary.


21 posted on 10/18/2017 8:55:17 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: conservative98

6 doesn’t look like it’d hold up in a strong wind, unless it’s zig zag’d.

None of the others feature see-through. design.


22 posted on 10/18/2017 8:56:26 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: b4me
"I was thinking they would be thicker walls."

One of the prototypes has a particularly thick concrete base - looks to be about six feet thick where people on the ground might try attacking with a jackhammer, ramming with a truck, or blasting.


23 posted on 10/18/2017 8:56:36 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: bigbob

HA!

The graffiti freaks will be feverishly spray-painting clothes on them.


24 posted on 10/18/2017 8:59:51 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: conservative98

Thanks for posting these. The site objects to my adblocker.

Wall #3 in post 6 looks too flimsy at the bottom. The cartels would attach chains and hooks to their Chebbys and yank those bars out, or whatever they are.


25 posted on 10/18/2017 9:19:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Wall is only good if Manned by Troops. Idea: Form a new Branch of the Military—The Border Guard—Like the Coast Guard on Land. Put forts on Border, give em armored cars and propeller driven planes—P-51s maybe to strafe illegal “spies” in the five mile kill zone. Maybe some Robots as well—armored and armed with chain guns. Make the wall air tight! Only guarded gates provide access.


26 posted on 10/18/2017 9:33:10 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: tumblindice

Drone footage of ‘Trumphenge’ (prototypes:) at YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0xRx_P-nw


27 posted on 10/18/2017 9:40:22 PM PDT by deks
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Yeah, funny, just a minute ago, I posted this on a different thread:

>> once we get ISIS under control, why shouldn’t we reassign the military with the duty of defeating the Mexican terrorist threat?


28 posted on 10/18/2017 9:43:03 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: b4me

Sensors will pick up all activities around, on and under the fence.


29 posted on 10/18/2017 9:45:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: jonrick46

Don’t see no Claymore mounts on them


30 posted on 10/18/2017 10:03:59 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: b4me

concrete can be cut.


31 posted on 10/18/2017 10:24:56 PM PDT by Aria
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To: stars & stripes forever

Direct link to drone footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=bx0xRx_P-nw


32 posted on 10/18/2017 10:45:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (From now on refer to them as the Weinstein Democrats and the Weinstein media.)
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To: fhayek
Pockets of scorpion nests. Gotta think outside the box.

Just scatter large pieces of plywood at the foot the wall. Scorpions will be very happy to accommodate.

33 posted on 10/18/2017 11:45:08 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: Does so
How about laying deeply ridged concrete panels 8-12 feet from the foot of the wall, so you can't get good footing near it?

Falling from thirty feet unto uneven concrete, or even jumping the last few feet from a rope, would result in turned ankles, broken bones, or worse.


34 posted on 10/19/2017 12:10:41 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: conservative98
Outstanding,Marie Harf,the loony leftist with the retard glasses said on FNC yesterday that the wall will cost 90 billion.I swear the left has to have the Pinocchio syndrome like no one else.
35 posted on 10/19/2017 1:15:26 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the free because of the brave!MAGA!)
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To: conservative98
I thought they would be bigger and more beautiful.

They will be more beautiful...once the graffiti "artists" get to work.

36 posted on 10/19/2017 1:20:06 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: bitt
"Good side"? You mean like on a claymore?
37 posted on 10/19/2017 1:37:36 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: RightGeek

If structurally sound and well attached?
They could make OK anchor points.


38 posted on 10/19/2017 6:17:18 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: conservative98

Looking at this wall porn gets me aroused.


39 posted on 10/19/2017 6:18:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RightGeek

Israeli West Bank barrier

About 90-95% of the barrier will be constructed as a “multi-layered fence system”[24] with the IDF’s preferred design having three fences, pyramid-shaped stacks of barbed wire on the two outer fences, a lighter-weight fence with intrusion detection equipment in the middle, an anti-vehicle ditch, patrol roads on both sides, and a smooth strip of sand for “intrusion tracking”.[25]
The barrier contains an on-average 60-metre (200 ft) wide exclusion area.[26] The width of some sections is larger (up to 100 metres (330 ft)) due to topographic conditions.[27] The width of some sections (about 6% of the barrier) is 3 metres (9.8 ft) where the barrier is constructed as a concrete wall up to 8 metres (26 ft) high. These sections are narrower, require less land, and provide more protection against snipers. Wall construction is more common in urban settings, e.g., Qalqilyah and Jerusalem, and in areas where people have been killed by snipers, e.g., the Trans-Israel Highway.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier

The actual wall is a sniper shield, only where needed.


40 posted on 10/19/2017 6:21:54 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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