Pentagon asks for pre-made bunkers that can be quickly shipped to the Middle East

[SamuelTheThird]

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-03-28/pentagon-exploratory-call-premade-bunkers-middle-east-21201414.html

A Pentagon exploratory call for potential contracts posted this week asked for “pre-fabricated transportable bunkers” that can be quickly sent to the Middle East. The notice, which was published Monday and had a Friday deadline, aimed “to determine if there exists an adequate number of interested and qualified contractors” that can provide the bunkers. Interested vendors were asked to submit three options for different estimated time frames: 3 days, 15 days and 30 days. All of the options had to be deliverable to King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba, Jordan. Each response was required to identify the level of protection provided by the bunkers, including the highest level of threat that the bunker is designed to withstand, such as a ballistic impact.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Sounds like they are digging in for a long war

Doesn't sound like peace negotiations

[SamuelTheThird]

2. Rubio said the war will be over in a couple weeks

Sounds like they have no fucking idea wth they are doing

[RockRaven]

3. Sounds like the sort of thing competent planners would have done before starting a war.

Of course, with proper planning there would be no need for the bunkers to be portable prefab anyway.

[Walleye]

4. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Don't worry, Don Junior will take the contract.

[bluestarone]

5. I;m sure they won'y mention how many

BODY BAGS were ordered.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Didn't plan for that either, huh.

It’s only a matter of time before TRump’s incompetence takes us all down.

[usonian]

7. Send this Bunker and his son-in-law

[haele]

8. Isn't that something that should have been thought of before going to war?

They've recently experienced casualties due to insurgent shelling at US bases over the long conflicts in Syria and Iraq. They knew our bases along the Gulf were vulnerable to Iraqi and Hout'hi insurgency.
They also know the Iranians aren't "unsophisticated" tribal groups arming co-religionists.
Sure, there's a lot of peasants and empty land, but attacking Iran is rather like trying to take South-Central China. You're walking into a hornet's nest, even after decades of sanctions.
Even after the poor showing the Iranians made during the Iraq-Iran border war, Saudi Arabia and their Sunni Principality chums are still too afraid to take the Iranians on without someone else providing the weapons and cannon fodder. Not because the Iranians can throw numbers at them, but because Iran has equivalent technology, clever leadership, a better educated population, and lots of places to hide decades worth of manufactured munitions and ways to use them.

If Iran, under constant threat from Sunnis, the US, and other international organizations has still been supplying four major terrorist organizations for decades, rule of thumb thinking is that they've most likely only "sold" or given out at most half of what they have over the years.

They're not going to be pumping out mortars and bombs, and the giving all of it away year after year.

And they're certainly not going to be keeping their stockpiles in easy to target warehouses.

Shows me the US Military wasn't planning an attack on Iran until this Administration needed a diversion - or Jarad, Jr., along with their backers Bibi and the Prince, all decided they needed to clear out any possible threats to Mar -A-Gaza and the Jordon River Golf Resort plans before the final push to get rid of those pesky, worthless Palestinians and Lebanese.

[MineralMan]

9. Bizarre. Such a bunker will be too heavy for

air transport. If it's not, it won't stop much of anything.

Fool's errand, that request is.