The main change in the last two months of heavy warfare is that the passive defender concentrated a dozen brigades of so-called large-scale full-line counterattacks, and in the end they basically kicked into the iron plate. Including the 36,000 fresh troops of nine brigades that the West spent more than one year secretly training and equipping, more than half of them have been lost so far; but the deepest entry point into the existing long front of hundreds of kilometers in the southeast has not exceeded 15 kilometers. On the surface, this line of defense seems to be too hard, but in essence, it is largely due to the millions of various mines that have been in place since the Soviet era, which play a retarding role. A large number of American-style mechanized troops, including European-style mechanized units dominated by Leopard 2 tanks, basically strayed into the mine array designed in advance, completely lost their ability to maneuver, and then were covered by the precision fire of UAVs, patrol missiles, and rear artillery groups, causing large-scale concentrated combat damage. This shows that the amount of landmines, in modern large-scale land regular warfare,
It is still a powerful means of defense that makes the breakthrough side talk change. The problem is that before launching this large-scale counteroffensive, both the front-line commanders of the strategic defenders and the NATO staff behind them should be well aware of the continuous intensive minelaying and other obstacles of the other side on the long front stretching for hundreds of kilometers. Why risk breaking in in real combat? There are two main reasons for this: the first is the obvious lack of artillery preparation before the large-scale counteroffensive. In large-scale land warfare, artillery preparation for at least one hour or so before an active attack has been carried out since the beginning of World War II. Intensive artillery preparation may not be able to immediately eliminate the enemy's living forces hiding behind the fortifications in large numbers, but at least it can be used with dense artillery and rocket artillery covering fire to blow up various artificial obstacles on the defensive line on the spot, especially the densely laid minefields and minefields, opening up a fire channel for the subsequent mechanized breakthrough that began immediately. But this time the so-called,
Great counteroffensive, but rarely saw large-scale artillery fire prepared in advance. In essence, it was also caused by the insufficient supply of shells between the superpower as a large rear and the countries of Western Europe. To take a step back, even if you can't blow up minefield passages with dense heavy artillery; Then heavy rocket minesweepers should also be used, and a safe path for one or two mechanized troops to pass through on the site should also be opened, and this one did not turn out to be either. In fact, in the past 30 years, the ground forces of the superpowers have been the most experienced in dealing with landmines and roadside bombs. Superpowers often use a trouble-saving solution to solve problems, that is, directly use high-power transmitters to block all unknown radio signals in the neighborhoods where their patrol convoys will pass; This makes it possible to avoid almost all roadside bombs that are remote-controlled by mobile phones. But those are all security tactics, and they simply cannot deal with millions of landmines in regular warfare. In fact, the superpowers also have the M1ABV, a heavy tank minesweeper up to 70 tons. It is possible to throw a serpentine half-ton C4 with a rocket on the spot,
Explosives, to immediately blow up a passage. But the M1ABV minesweeper was a project that survived at the insistence of the Marine Corps. It is estimated that there are no 30 vehicles in the entire army of the superpowers, and they are all reserved for their own use at critical times, where they are willing to get the front line in Europe. It can be seen that the landlord's house is also more and more searched!