SubscribeThe Concertainer® unit from HESCO is acknowledged as the most significant development in field fortifications since WWII. It has been a key component in providing force protection since the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Typical applications include perimeter security and defence walls, equipment revetments, ammunition compounds, personnel and material bunkers, observation points, defensive firing positions, guard posts, explosives and contraband search areas, highway checkpoints, border crossing checkpoints, and protecting existing structures.
Structures built from Concertainer units have been subjected to testing with charges up to 20,000lbs. Correctly configured, a wall made from Concertainer will mitigate the effects of truck bomb attack. It has also been tested and proven against small arms fire and RPG, and is used extensively in the protection of personnel, vehicles, equipment and facilities in military, peacekeeping, humanitarian and civilian operations.
The Concertainer unit is a prefabricated, multi-cellular defence wall system, made of galvanised steel Weldmesh and lined with non-woven polypropylene geotextile. Its primary advantage over other force protection systems is its ability to utilise locally available fill material to rapidly construct defence walls and other structures with minimal manpower and resources. Units can be extended and joined together easily and rapidly to provide effective and economical structures tailored to the specific threat and level of protection required.
Concertainer structures provide protection against the effects of weapons by enhancing the mass and characteristics of the fill material. Field guides to force protection normally provide guidance for the design of structures in terms of the thickness of various materials required against defined threats. This will generally suffice for operational structures.
Several specialised off-the-shelf products based on the Concertainer system are also available, providing rapidly deployable protective structures for specific needs: -
GUARD POST / SANGAR
The guard post / sangar establishes a small (four-foot by six-foot) firing or observation point with two-foot thick walls, based on the Concertainer system. Provided as a complete set, the guard post / sangar is delivered on a single 826lb (375kg) pallet with detailed assembly instructions.
PERSONNEL AND MATERIAL BUNKERS
Our bunker sets can be established as stand-alone systems or based around twenty-foot or forty-foot ISO containers. ISO containers provide enhanced protection and, if properly ventilated, can provide environmental protection. Material bunkers provide access from one end of the bunker, while personnel bunkers have access at both ends.
The bunker walls are constructed using MIL 1 sections, providing a wall thickness of 3ft 6in with two-foot of overhead cover. Detailed assembly instructions are provided with the kits. ISO containers are not supplied with the bunker kit, but are available with the containerised bunker kits.
A bespoke Containerised Bunker Kit is also available.
