Thread by @TrentTelenko

The ability of Bailey Bridge and later generations of combat bridging gear like the medium girder bridge to patch destroyed bridge infrastructure is so fundamental to Western Army's for over 80 years that it is beginning to look like the

https://t.co/tHRgeQrBj3

...we have another mirror image assumption of Russian Army bridging capability, like we saw with pallets & mechanized logistics.

I have seen no social media pictures of Russian combat engineering like this Medium Girder Bridge over the partially destroyed Kazer River bridge

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...at Mosul, Iraq in 2003.

After 16 months in Ukraine, there have been a lot of really important destroyed bridges like the the #Antonivskyi and #Chongar, which should have seen the RuAF TMM-3 Heavy Mechanised Bridge patching damaged bridge sections, if had that capability.

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And if it doesn't have that bridge infrastructure patching capability that Western Military intelligence "mirror image projected" upon the Soviet & RuAF for 80(+) years.

What other gaps in Soviet & RuAF capabilities have Western intelligence, civilian & military, missed?🤯
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Be on the lookout for more such multi-generational, Patron-Client group-think, mirror imaging.

It is beginning to look like that is the Western intelligence "brand" when it comes to Russia.

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