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How do you do combined arms into a minefield? It's a WW1-style mess where combined arms simply don't work. Ukraine tried NATO tactics summer of last year and s
by hajile 2y ago
How do you do combined arms into a minefield? It's a WW1-style mess where combined arms simply don't work.
Ukraine tried NATO tactics summer of last year and suffered a catastrophic defeat. Going across minefields requires convoys. Russian helicopters outside of MANPADS range (and too low to be visible to SAM site radar) take out the minesweeper and rear vehicles. Now you've got a bunch of sitting ducks. If it looks like escape is possible, artillery remote-mines the path the minesweeper cleared.
Try your luck in the minefield and you get destroyed. Get out to fight and the anti-personnel mines take everyone out. Stay in place and the regular artillery takes out all the troops. At night, you get grenade and RPG-dropping drones with IR cameras so you can't even hide.
I ask again, what is your combined arms solution to this mess?
- tomjen3 2y agoDo what Ukraine did: attack in another place. But it is like asking what is the healthy thing to do when you are 300 pounds and can run because you have heart issues: the answer is to never be in that position in the first place. Anyway I assume the US has some sort of remote detonation mine plan for if shit gets hot with NK.
- hajile 2y agoRussia didn't defend Kursk because they didn't think Ukraine would be stupid enough to make that attack. That was a temporary PR win and a permanent strategic loss. The results have been the elimination of Ukraine's best troops AND losing the ability to reinforce faltering lines which is why Russian advances have increased. Maneuver warfare relies on secrecy to a large degree. You can hide strategic troop buildups from the Taliban because they don't have satellites, but not from a near peer. With current spotter drones and IR cameras, you can't really even rely on tactical secrecy.