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u can be assured our MRT trains will not suffer from air raids!!
MRT trains will be 17 meters underground!!
Construction of an underground MRT depot situated at Kim Chuan Road spanning between Hougang Ave 3 and Paya Lebar Road with 3 levels RC structure in Circle Line (CCL), consisting of piling, architectural, civil and building services works and a stretch of vehicular flyover above depot forming part of Bartley Extension project. The site area is about 127,000 m2.
1.26.01.2008 www.zaobao.com reports that it is the biggest underground
MRT(railway) depot in the world!!,occuping land 11 ha or 17 football fields,
built underground 17 meter,can put 77 x 3 carriages MRT,
cost S$296 million.took 5 years to complete,TOP issued Oct 2007,
control center for no--driver Circle line and Downtown lines,
a 9 storey light industrial building will be on top of the depot.
1.u can sit on my head if the depot is not a bomb shelter
Public shelters found in Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)/ North-East Line (NEL) stations,
schools and community centres / clubs, would be more appropriately used by those in transit (eg. travelling in the MRT), passers-by and those who have to perform emergency roles in these schools and community centres / clubs.
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This can protect you from random or stray conventional iron bombs, which is good for protecting civillians.
However if the enemy is really bent on taking out the target, a guided earth-penetrating bunker buster bomb that can easily penetrate 30 meters into the ground and then exploding will easily destroy the or compromise the target to the point it is no longer viable.Edited by SingaporeTyrannosaur 26 Jan `08, 1:36PM
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Originally posted by tripwire:add afew feet thick of reinforced concrete... and the bunker buster will be busted...
Not really, you actually need up to 6 METERS of reinforced concrete in order to stop the bomb. If you build a shopping center on top of it or something, conventional structure, it will simply plow right through all the floors.
Of course and even if you stop one, that's not the end of it. What the Yanks did in the first Gulf War when they realized that one bunker buster was not enough to do the job on some of Iraqi superbunkers was to simply drop another bomb into the hole created by the first one.
Best bet? Don't let them drop the bombs in the first place.
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And of course, another idea is not to drop the bomb on the structure itself, but beside it, creating an underground crater below or near the foundations of the building and causing it to crumble under its own weight. There are engineering ways to counter this of course, but once again things are not as clear cut as they seem.
Edited by SingaporeTyrannosaur 28 Jan `08, 1:33AM
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u should have read and laugh at those stupid malays nuts posting boasting their mlrs astross are so powerful like they are having ballistic missiles........
Unless they use special ammunition on their Astros, otherwise those rockets are pretty much useless against well-constructed deep underground installations.
As far as i know those rockets are unguided and designed for massive surface bombardment. We have to destroy these launchers before they launch their rockets during war from the air and deliver massive counter artillery and rockets bombardment to silence these launchers.
We have to work on our current defences against rockets, Israel is a good example to learn from as they have been under long term constant threat of rockets and missiles of various range and sizes.
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our HDB is above ground... so of course vulnerable to bombardment lah... but our HDB flat got HS mah... just go inside, close the door... and play PSP3 lor....
according to DSTA explosive test in australia, those northern goondoos need to hit your housing shelter(HS) with at least 30 astro rocket at the same time to cause sufficient damage to your HS.
anyway....just do the HS drill afew times at the start of the war... and they would run out of rockets to shoot...at us.
our himars of course will smash their astros easily.... but why waste our himars on their garbage?
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I don't exactly think they are going to use ASTROS just to plink HDB flats, not only is it mostly ineffective, it is wasteful and of course there are better targets out there.
ASTROS like any other weapon is a card to play in a conflict, but it's certainly no ace of spades and I think people who play up one system or another (us included) are not thinking very straight.
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