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A revetment, in military aviation, is a parking area for one or more aircraft that is surrounded by blast walls on three sides. These walls are as much about protecting neighbouring aircraft as it is to protect the aircraft within the revetment. If a combat aircraft fully loaded with fuel and munitions was to somehow be set on fire, by accident or design, then it could start a fratricidal chain reaction; as the destruction of individual aircraft could set ablaze its neighbours. The blast walls around a revetment are designed to channel blast and damage upwards and outwards away from neighbouring aircraft.
A Hawker Hurricane Mark I of No. 1 Squadron RAF in a revetment at RAF Wittering in Huntingdonshire, England, in late 1940
Soldiers construct aircraft revetments at RAF Ta Kali, Malta, using locally-quarried limestone blocks, circa 1942.
Refuelling and rearming a Spitfire Mark VC(T) of No. 603 Squadron RAF, in a revetment constructed from empty fuel tins filled with sand at RAF Ta Kali, Malta in 1942.
A US Marine Corps Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of VMF-122 in a concrete revetment in 1942 at Camp Kearney, which later became MCAS Miramar, California.
B-17 Flying Fortress bombers parked in revetments at Jackson Airfield, New Guinea, in 1943
A destroyed US Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules somewhere in Vietnam, circa 1967. The revetment would have helped prevent damage spreading to neighbouring aircraft.
A US Air Force Reserve McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II aircraft from the 704th Tactical Fighter Squadron being parked in a revetment made from profiled steel panels, during exercise "Team Spirit '85" at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea
A British Aerospace Harrier GR3 of No. 1417 (Tactical Ground Attack) Flight RAF in a revetment at Belize International Airport in 1990
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