Most are based upon Soviet-era technology and are artillery rockets that were designed to be fired in large barrages rather than individually.
There have been a couple of incidents over the years of whales getting trapped in the sluices, but environmental damage caused by silting seems to be the principle concern of a larger scale barrage across the whole bay.
The creation of the canal and of the large Day River barrage, 853 feet (260 metres) wide, ensured what is known to the Vietnamese as a "tenth-month" (i.e., autumn) harvest by draining the water.
"Kraft" (1983-85) is a sound barrage for large orchestra, with soloists playing amplified cello, clarinet, piano and percussion — including a motley collection of instruments like furniture legs, brake drums, bolts and what not.
Even today, the Farakka barrage looms large in the minds of many Bangladeshis, fairly or not, as the single most conspicuous symbol of their bigger neighbors 'bullying' tactics and indifference to lower-riparian water needs (Wirsing 2007).
[C3.] Former Citicorp Chairman Dies Walter B. Wriston, who turned Citicorp into the world's largest bank through a barrage of innovations, has died.
The fourth company desperately held out at a hilltop against Viet Cong artillery barrages and large infantry charges, before slipping out through the enemy positions at dawn.
Traps, large stationary nets or barrages or pots, are gears in which the fish are retained or enter voluntarily and will be hampered from escaping.
In 1994, 2,000 NGOs signed the Manibeli declaration calling for a moratorium on dam-building by the World Bank, then the largest financier of barrages.
Below them was a real fleet: just 14 RAF Air Sea Rescue launches, each flying 30-ft naval barrage balloons enclosing large radar reflectors.
