Submitted 17 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
ERR reports the Baltic defense line project is already reshaping the southeast frontier.
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Maginot line in 2025.
Latvia better watch out …
Pffft. Just hit that ramp at max speed and get some air time brah
Is the perspective making them look small or will something like that actually stop a tank?
That’s a stock photo of an irrigation or utility trench, I suspect - it wouldn’t stop a 4x4, let alone a tank.
Thank you lmao. I saw the article a few times and had to ask because I was very sure that wouldn’t stop a tank but I didn’t want to be the dipshit assuming they know better than civil engineers.
A tank driving on it will have issues. But this is easily overcome by itself.
This is just one small part of new emplacements. But even multiple layers are only expected to slow an advance
It’s deterrence but yeah it would slow down tanks and choke point them which is useful but it’s not like totally impassable.
it’s just an irrigation canal. A BMP could cross that without having to slow down, it can’t be more than 3m and has such beautiful ramped sides. The biggest threat might be getting stuck in the loose dirt of the spoil berm, but really there’s not enough there to trouble a hilux let alone an AFV or true tank.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Weren’t tanks invented, literally, to combat/bypass trenches?
Nyoka@sh.itjust.works 33 minutes ago
Depends on the size of the trench.
huf@hexbear.net 3 hours ago
yeah, but russians dont have trenches at home so when they see it, they’ll first panic, and then they’ll steal the trench and run back home with it