It is a U-shaped underground villa, built of metre-thick concrete slabs to withstand air and artillery attack.
Where I am, at the moment, is with the echo battery of the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade.
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In eastern Libya, rebel forces in the oil port of Ras Lanuf came under frequent air and artillery attacks.
That's only one small part of the Air Defense Artillery's planning, which has really been going on for weeks.
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Meanwhile Syrian forces have launched new air and artillery strikes on rebel-held areas, in particular in the northern city of Aleppo, the pro-rebel Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Turkey has launched ground, air and artillery attacks on suspected PKK bases in northern Iraq, which is generally under the control of the Iraqi Kurdish regional government and its forces.
On the streets of Damascus, the two-year old conflict dragged on Friday, with government troops pushing into two northern neighborhoods, triggering heavy fighting with rebels as they tried to advance under air and artillery support, activists said.
They must observe rules of engagement that restrict use of their firearms and deny them air cover and artillery support in circumstances where it can mean the difference between living and dying.
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Dug in around the city are more than 30, 000 government troops, backed by armor, artillery and air power.
When its infantrymen meet resistance, they either slide round it or call in the air force or the artillery.
Fuel, food, parts and ammunition barely reach Ghazni from Kabul and the Afghans rely on American artillery, air power and medical treatment.
The BBC's Ian Pannell, who is travelling with UK troops in Helmand, says the latest phase of the offensive involves a major land assault, with soldiers backed up by artillery and air support.
The Lebanese press is busy dusting off old charges that Israel is diverting Lebanese water for its own use, while other reports claim that Israel uses the zone as an artillery and air-strike training range.
And in response to that, the government -- who has control over the violence and force in a country -- has chosen with artillery and air assets and other assets including regular military forces to go in and attack those cities and attack those citizens.
The Syrians have introduced more muscular military tactics against the opposition gradually: first artillery, then air power and then surface-to-surface missiles.
The assault began early on Sunday with artillery fire and air strikes.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
And despite the dropping of more explosives than in any other 11 weeks in history, the Serb army remains potent: relatively few of its men have been killed, a formidable proportion of its armour, artillery and mobile air-defence systems is still intact.
Hussein launched a policy of challenging enforcement of those zones in late 1998, deploying surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery against the aircraft.
The Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, the Army Air Corps, the Royal Logistic Corps, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Military Police will also be affected.
Those honoured included the air force, Beijing's military command and the Second Artillery, which controls missiles.
In the latest air raids, Kabul airport, the military academy and an artillery base were among the reported targets.
In addition to the air strikes, Israel's army said that naval and artillery units had "continued to support the ground forces" overnight and reported one soldier lightly wounded.
North and west, the Bosnian Serbs are on the defensive for the first time, swept aside by Croat artillery, Bosnian army infantry -- and an air force courtesy of NATO.
Myers described the cache as consisting of 40 different bunkers with artillery rounds and other munitions, including 50 surface-to-air missiles.
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When the Air Force became independent from the Army in 1947, the latter service retained lead responsibility for ground-based air defenses which at the time consisted primarily of anti-aircraft artillery.
Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
There were also unconfirmed reports that refugees were being shelled by mortar and artillery fire in the Pagarusa Valley, along Kosovo's western border with Albania, British Air Commodore David Wilby said.
According to published reports, the United States is proposing to withdraw unilaterally all nuclear artillery shells from Western Europe and to revise NATO doctrine in a manner that makes retaining the remaining air- and ground-launched systems utterly problematic.
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On the day of the funeral, the coffin will travel by hearse from Westminster to a Royal Air Force chapel, where it will be transferred to a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery.
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