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You'd need an awful lot of ditches, since tanks have high mobility. And were actually designed to counter trench warfare tactics.
by greedo 5y ago
You'd need an awful lot of ditches, since tanks have high mobility. And were actually designed to counter trench warfare tactics.
- ethbr0 5y agoMBTs have standardized dimensions. Trenches have flexible dimensions. You show me an MBT, and I'll design a ditch it can't cross. (Which is the entire point of combat engineers. But as you point out, given the speed of modern MBTs, it's easier to flank static anti-tank defenses like ditches)
- greedo 5y agoThe role of combat engineers isn't to stop tanks, but to funnel tanks and AFVs into kill zones. Since WW2 era gear can't really kill a tank, it's pointless. The best a CE could do would hope for a mine to damage a track.
- ethbr0 5y agoTurn it the other way around. The role of modern combat engineers is to get MBTs (and infantry) through obstacles. A ditch isn't very effective if the far side is dynamited into a slope.
- greedo 5y agoPotato Potahto. Sure on offense engineers are tasked with clearing obstacles, that's a given. On defense, the role is reversed.