User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:09:18 AM EDT
[#1]
Will not post diagram. NSA will see it and find me!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:11:10 AM EDT
[#2]
It's an imaginary fortress! Remember
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:17:58 AM EDT
[#3]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:24:48 AM EDT
[#4]
I like the idea of Civil War era earthen star forts.
And having recently toured the Ypres battlefield, I also want it to be placed on a hillside to better observe potential enemies. Pity mortars would be out of my price range. Actually it is easy to build the mortar, the ammo is the expensive part. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:35:24 AM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Will not post diagram. NSA will see it and find me! Who do you think OP works for? |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:36:15 AM EDT
[#6]
I've always found these to be a resonable option with few modification and the right location.
Genesis Shelter 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:39:11 AM EDT
[#7]
I like the idea . Old Fort technology. The engineering is simple and easy to maintain. In most important can be done on a budget
. you just have to scale it down to fit your needs. And the designs are readily available to fit any region and resources. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:39:44 AM EDT
[#8]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:41:14 AM EDT
[#9]
It would be built into the top/side of a hill with 360 views and below the crest have a ring of punji pits along with tanglefoot barbed wire and sensors
A tunnel system would take me out to a hidden egress point at the base of the hill. Or just go buy one of the old ww2 German uboat pens |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:42:31 AM EDT
[#10]
The Hive facility from Resident Evil.
Underground and shit yo!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:42:37 AM EDT
[#11]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:44:39 AM EDT
[#12]
Defend my home and live off the liberals
 .
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:46:53 AM EDT
[#13]
 |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:48:19 AM EDT
[#14]
SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach 
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:48:21 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryDude, unless you are Milla Jovavich, you will lose. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 9:56:23 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/020/cache/dry-tortugas_2099_600x450.jpg SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft.  |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:11:56 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
that i like
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/020/cache/dry-tortugas_2099_600x450.jpg SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft.
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:12:46 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft. Something like this, just not on the ocean. I don't need all my shit rusting out in the salt air. Definitely a hexagonal outer wall. Primary structure in the center -- the castle, essentially. Then put all my dry storage and facilities in separate buildings along the insides of the perimeter wall and/or underground. I'd also have a central tower high enough for one person to observe the entire compound. Solar + hydrogen collection Well water Small garden 100 grand definitely isn't enough. I'd need lotto winnings type money. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:22:41 AM EDT
[#19]
You can do a lot with a bulldozer and some old shipping containers
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:25:44 AM EDT
[#20]
Something like this, that is almost unrecognizable from the surface.
 |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:32:49 AM EDT
[#21]
A hundred grand is no where near enough. That only gets me and a few close friends to Hawaii for a doozy of a TEOTWAWKI party.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:42:42 AM EDT
[#22]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:49:49 AM EDT
[#23]
Converted US. missle silo sight.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:52:58 AM EDT
[#24]
Missile silo. Already built.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:58:08 AM EDT
[#25]
The best defense is to remain hidden in a place no one wants to go surrounded by likeminded neighbors. A $100K budget means a normal looking (but small) house that is hardened with concrete walls, firing ports, steel shutters and the like in a remote location with good soil/growing space, well water, aabundant fish and game.
Even the greatest fortress will succumb to a siege. The more valuable you look. The more sieges you will have to withstand. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 10:59:11 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The best defense is to remain hidden in a place no one wants to go. Even the greatest fortress will succumb to a siege. you mean like Detroit? |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 11:02:06 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
you mean like Detroit? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
The best defense is to remain hidden in a place no one wants to go. Even the greatest fortress will succumb to a siege. you mean like Detroit? Too many people there already. Short growning season too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 1:11:16 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Too many people there already. Short growning season too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
The best defense is to remain hidden in a place no one wants to go. Even the greatest fortress will succumb to a siege. you mean like Detroit? Too many people there already. Short growning season too. Right idea. Small modest publicly visibly presentation, larger non-visible presentation. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 1:32:16 PM EDT
[#29]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 1:35:38 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/020/cache/dry-tortugas_2099_600x450.jpg SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 1:36:16 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/020/cache/dry-tortugas_2099_600x450.jpg SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft.
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. Well then, I add to my specifications a desalinization plant, solar power station, and hurricane proof air conditioned mansion inside the fort.
We must also fit said sharks with laser beams on their heads. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:10:25 PM EDT
[#32]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:13:49 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Hive facility from Resident Evil. Underground and shit yo! WORD!! |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:24:38 PM EDT
[#34]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:25:23 PM EDT
[#35]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:29:27 PM EDT
[#36]
Id renovate with the 100k |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:35:30 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You can do a lot with a bulldozer and some old shipping containers Half-a-dozen to a dozen containers, couple truckloads of marine plywood/4x4 posts, some 1, and 2 meter corrugated metal piping...and a few odds-n-ends that I'd have to think on, a bit. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:36:09 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The best defense is to remain hidden in a place no one wants to go surrounded by likeminded neighbors. A $100K budget means a normal looking (but small) house that is hardened with concrete walls, firing ports, steel shutters and the like in a remote location with good soil/growing space, well water, aabundant fish and game. Even the greatest fortress will succumb to a siege. The more valuable you look. The more sieges you will have to withstand. The same thought comes to mind every time I see folks talking about their fantasy "bug-out vehicle." It's always some Mad Max-ed Unimog or something, guaranteed to draw fire wherever it goes. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:37:32 PM EDT
[#39]
think this
times 20 acres. I'll be on the other side of the country as people run to the 20 acre twinkie pile. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:40:03 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. With laser beams coming out of their frickin' heads? Are they at least ill tempered? |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:41:21 PM EDT
[#41]
Not saying. County has less than 50,000. is 97% ethnically white and fertile soil. Nearest big city is 400 miles.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:41:36 PM EDT
[#42]
The building blocks
The land Make fort with containers. Put barbed wire along tops of shipping containers. Weld ends of containers together. Spend leftover money on guns, boolits, food, and womenz. |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:46:54 PM EDT
[#43]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 2:48:27 PM EDT
[#44]
1500SF earth sheltered home made of 10" poured concrete, reinforced with rebar, utilizing geothermal heat/air, and a deep well.
Extensive use of solar panels to power a battery bank. Backup diesel genset with "ample" supply of fuel. Needs to be on 40 acres, not 20. I can't tell you any more than that. Not that I've given it much thought. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:05:32 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/020/cache/dry-tortugas_2099_600x450.jpg SHTF in style. Sipping tequila on the beach
Put some phalanx guns at each spike in the fort and set them to destroy incoming boats/aircraft.
That's Fort Jefferson. No water except what you collect via rain. It's also 90 degrees and humid all year long. I get prickly heat just looking at pictures of it. It's got isolation, though, and hammerhead sharks in the water. With Fricking Laser Beams??? 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:13:06 PM EDT
[#46]
If you're smart, it wouldn't be here in Estados Unidos. Facism is in.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:13:24 PM EDT
[#47]
You'd do better earth sheltered for reasons of
Lower visibility (they can't come after you if they don't know where you are) Being a big target will be a BIG problem Better ballistic protection Better fire protection in case of wildfire or firestorm |
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:18:56 PM EDT
[#48]
 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:26:54 PM EDT
[#49]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 8/21/2013 3:34:46 PM EDT
[#50]
  |
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
