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> I am surprised Ukrainians do not use remotely controlled mines. They do use mines, not sure if remote controlled. E.g. https://twitter.com/nashaniva/status/1
by kspacewalk2 5y ago
> I am surprised Ukrainians do not use remotely controlled mines.
They do use mines, not sure if remote controlled. E.g. https://twitter.com/nashaniva/status/1503762953148919809 https://twitter.com/nashaniva/status/1503762953148919809
- TekMol 5y agoBut then you have to either put it there shortly before an enemy vehicle will pass it, or you have to somehow make sure no friendly vehicles will ever pass it.
- blaser-waffle 5y agoThey're fighting a defensive war, not a war of maneuver. Easier to use IEDs and mines when you're bunkering down and the fields are mud -- necessitating the use of a handful of roads. I'd bet my hat that the reasons the Russians are surrounding the cities and blasting them down is because they know they'd run into tons of IEDs + NLAWs if they rolled into a city.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoThe big difference is that the Russian army has a strong precedent, and is happy to, blast cities to rubble and kill civilians indiscriminately. It works. For all the collateral damage that the US invasions in the middle east caused, US soldiers generally don't like murdering innocents blindly.