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This @PStyle0ne1 mine clearance video shows a lot of things about state of the art minefield breaching.
1. Look at the two horns with attached electric cables at the front of the mine roller. Those are generating a magnetic field for mines so fused.
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https://t.co/F5KLZEcUHn
1. Look at the two horns with attached electric cables at the front of the mine roller. Those are generating a magnetic field for mines so fused.
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https://t.co/F5KLZEcUHn
https://twitter.com/i/status/1676938578637488129
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1676938578637488129
2. Note that the two banks of mine roller wheels overlap so no bit of ground it moves through is untouched.
Uneven ground limited the effectiveness of earlier generations of mine rollers, but this AFU one has sprung suspension for every roller wheel.
Look left in the video
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Uneven ground limited the effectiveness of earlier generations of mine rollers, but this AFU one has sprung suspension for every roller wheel.
Look left in the video
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3. Note the power of the various mine explosions. Small pops are anti-personnel landmines. The large ones are anti-tank landmines.
Mine roller assemblies like that can take ~5 AT-mine hits before they have to go back and be repaired.
Each roller is built so damaged...
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Mine roller assemblies like that can take ~5 AT-mine hits before they have to go back and be repaired.
Each roller is built so damaged...
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...sprung roller assemblies can be removed and replaced quickly.
4. Finally, note that RuAF are now mixing their AP and AT mines in a single field. Complex obstacles that stop both infantry and vehicles are always harder to breach.
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4. Finally, note that RuAF are now mixing their AP and AT mines in a single field. Complex obstacles that stop both infantry and vehicles are always harder to breach.
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RuAF's early counter to such mine rollers was to
A. Kill them, and
B. Use MLRS rocket delivered 'track buster' scatterable AT-mines to close the breach behind the mine roller or mine plow tank.
This is how RuAF created that infamous 47th Brigade "Bradley pile."
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A. Kill them, and
B. Use MLRS rocket delivered 'track buster' scatterable AT-mines to close the breach behind the mine roller or mine plow tank.
This is how RuAF created that infamous 47th Brigade "Bradley pile."
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AFU's response was to be far more methodical in hunting RuAF MLRS artillery rocket launchers and...
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https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1676966115598278656
...RuAF artillery ammo depots before their attacks.
It simply takes much longer for Russia's manual labor based logistical supply chain to replace artillery munitions than anything else.
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It simply takes much longer for Russia's manual labor based logistical supply chain to replace artillery munitions than anything else.
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676331020667199489
AFU has adapted it's "Death of a Thousand Cuts" anti-logistics strategy to beat RuAF complex minefield obstacles.
Kill the RuAF shells & rockets before they can stop the AFU breach.
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Kill the RuAF shells & rockets before they can stop the AFU breach.
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