All the storage buildings were widely dispersed and had additional shielding with earthworks (termed blast barriers or traverses).

The instant it stopped, groundcrew men threw grass-covered nets over the biplane and hauled it away to hide under still more nets which concealed earthen blast barriers.

In often-targeted neighborhoods, like Mansour and Yarmouk, Iraqi soldiers were present behind concrete blast barriers.

Pink or green windows, towering Roman columns and mirrored cupolas peek over high walls and concrete blast barriers.

Clearing the base's maze of dirt-filled blast barriers, Marine Strike Force Two, in a convoy of unlit Humvees, entered some of Iraq's deadliest terrain.

The six Starfleet guards who were posted at the command center's entrance had, as a precaution, moved behind portable blast barriers and readied their weapons.

According to investigating officials, much of the impact was taken up by the sand filled blast barriers.

He had, after all, lost an uncle to someone's failure to dog a blast barrier, and had grown up with the story.

Bounded in razor wire and concrete blast barriers, the small city housed the massive shipyards, dry docks, repair facilities, weapons depots, and operations buildings of the Russian Northern Fleet.

And so Adnan Muhammed finds himself billeted to a Baghdad police station surrounded by canyons of blast barriers and strips of tire spikes to keep the car bombers at bay.