Ready for ambush…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — World War III
ispsales — 16 years ago(August 08, 2009 10:44 AM)
Hi,
In the movie World War III:
When they laid out the corrugated ditch pipe to get ready for the Soviet troops, David said that it was a "____ ___ ____" from LeoDiVinci(??).
Does anyone know the name of the defense design that they used with the pipe.
I am going to plant trees and bushes around my house in that design. You can see out and they can't see in (kind of).
Have a great day,
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Dennis_Cooper — 16 years ago(October 29, 2009 12:07 PM)
I might be wrong but didn't he refer to it as a "buzzsaw"? Though that may have been what the defensive position was called during the Vietnam war when Gen. DuPuy arranged his foxholes that way. I think he mentioned Da Vinci just to say that he had designed the battlements of a castle in that design.
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owenmp — 14 years ago(July 17, 2011 05:50 PM)
A transcription of the ambush planning scene is written below. The da Vinci defense was not named. The pipe defense was called the Buzzsaw.
Colonel Jake Caffey - So, this little excursion is the opposite of everything we've been taught about the new warfare. You're going have do some instant rethinking. If you can't, you're going to die miserably, and be very badly remembered by the President of these United States. We have to defend a fixed point, not an active defense, but a static one. There's no room to maneuver.
Now, in order to secure a castle life, Leonardo da Vinci, I'm sure some of you have heard of him, devised a series of defensive parapets at an angle so that the enemy could never see into his positions.
(Draws several foreshortened circles in a horizontal line on the blackboard. Next, vertical lines are drawn on each circle to create sections of pipe seen from an overhead view.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - In 'Nam, General DePuy dug his foxholes in the same way. The North Vietnamese had their version. We called that the Buzzsaw."
(Writes the word "BUZZ" on the top of the blackboard.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - Now, we're going to do the same thing here. We're going to use those sections of pipe outside. You see their relative positions here.
(Points at the section of pipe written on the blackboard holding a piece of chalk.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - Each man will cover the area directly in front of him, in front of his pipe, which ever way that's facing. If you see something, shoot.
(Draws an arrow from the center of an opening of a pipe downward in the center of the field of vision from that pipe.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - Anything that falls outside of your field of vision will fall into someone else's.
(Draws two field of vision lines downward from the pipe section to the right of the pipe section labeled with the arrow.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - You see? And they'll care of it. Any questions?
National Guard Soldier #1 - (Raises hand.)
Colonel Jake Caffey - Yes, corporal.
National Guard Soldier #1 - That's pretty hairy, isn't it sir, when you can only from one direction?
Colonel Jake Caffey - The name of this game is depend on each other. I realize that without the combat experience a lot of you have not seen this put into practice. Very soon now you'll going to have the chance to see how it all works. Trust the guys in the pipes on your right and left. They can see what you can't. And trust the system. Because without all of its teeth, the Buzzsaw will not work. All right, to your positions, and remember every round counts.
Colonel Jake Caffey - Trust you were right Sergeant?
Sergeant Parson - Yes, sir. They're one ridge over. They'll be here in 25 minutes.
Colonel Jake Caffey - (Addressing Captain Angel Cordobes) All right, Captain. Let's see if da Vinci was in his right mind.