What Is Hesco Bastion

We often see such scenes in movies. American soldiers often deploy military installations or landmarks such as embassies in troubled areas, and the fences built around them are all built with earth and stone defensive walls. , The inside is guarded by soldiers to resist attacks from opponents.

This kind of defensive wall is also called "zhai" in ancient times. It is called blast wall in modern times. It is one of the basic defensive measures to build fortifications in troubled areas. Its composition includes walls, shelters, and warning devices And monitoring sensors can withstand the attacks of ordinary light weapons, landmines, artillery shells, and even missiles. It is designed to protect the fragile buildings and personnel within the fence. The targets are mainly enemy attacks in military operations, terrorist attacks, and unacceptable attacks. Expected industrial accidents, etc.

Modern explosion-proof walls have begun to form a system of their own, and there are specialized companies for production and design, and provide supporting services, such as Hesco Hesco, Mifram Mifran, Leonardo Leonardo SPA and other companies produced military defense barriers system.

Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the HESCO barrier quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s. HESCO barriers continue to be used for their original purpose. They were used in 2005 to reinforce levees around New Orleans in the weeks between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. During the June 2008 Midwest floods 8,200 m (9,000 yd) of HESCO barrier wall were shipped to Iowa. In late March 2009, 10,700 m (11,700 yd) of HESCO barrier were delivered to Fargo, North Dakota to protect against floods. In late September 2016, 16 km (10 mi) of HESCO barriers were used in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the fall flood of 2016.

The Concertainer was originally developed by Jimi Heselden, a British entrepreneur and ex-coal miner, who founded HESCO Bastion Ltd. in 1989 to manufacture his invention. The brand name for the barrier is a portmanteau of the words "concertina" and "container" .

Assembling the HESCO MIL units entails unfolding it and filling it with sand, soil or gravel, usually using a front end loader. The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. The main advantage of HESCO barriers, strongly contributing to their popularity with troops and flood fighters, is the quick and easy setup. Previously, people had to fill sandbags, a slow undertaking, with one worker filling about 20 sandbags per hour. Workers using HESCO barriers and a front end loader can do ten times the work of those using sandbags.

The HESCO barriers come in a variety of sizes. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets. Example dimensions of typical configurations are 1.4 m × 1.1 m × 9.8 m (4.6 ft × 3.6 ft × 32.2 ft) to 2.1 m × 1.5 m × 30 m (6.9 ft × 4.9 ft × 98.4 ft).

A new system of HESCO MIL Concertainer developed specially for military use is deployed from a container, which is dragged along the line of ground where the barrier is to be formed, unfolding up to several hundred metres of barrier ready for filling within minutes.