Russia uses anti-tank mines as demolition charges
Russian soldiers are using anti-tank mines as demolition charges to blow up Ukrainian positions. The low-cost tactic is challenging expensive Western equipment.
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Russian soldiers blow up Ukrainian positions with anti-tank mines
The tactic that is making fantasy equipment obsolete
A Russian soldier throws a backpack loaded with anti-tank mines at a basement where Ukrainian soldiers are sheltering in the village of Glubokoe, in the Kharkiv region. The explosion brings the ceiling down. This is not an isolated case. In Dachnoye, Rodinske and Slaviansk the pattern repeats itself: anti-tank mines used as hand-thrown demolition charges, after drones failed to dislodge the defenders. The war in Ukraine is showing that cutting-edge technology does not always win battles.
While the West was selling the 21st-century soldier kitted out with FELIN systems (thermal sights, cameras for firing around corners), the reality at the front is very different. A 20-euro drone locates a platoon with that equipment, and a hand-thrown anti-tank mine wipes it off the map. A FELIN kit costs several thousand euros; a mine, a few hundred. The cost-effectiveness ratio tilts toward the simple and the powerful.
Criticism of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers abounds, but there is an uncomfortable consensus: the Russian infantry, hardened by real combat, is demonstrating an ability to adapt that its Western counterparts have never had to develop. Meanwhile, the war goes on, and the "rats" in their burrows keep being eliminated with methods no general had foreseen.
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The tactic that is making fantasy equipment obsolete
A Russian soldier throws a backpack loaded with anti-tank mines at a basement where Ukrainian soldiers are sheltering in the village of Glubokoe, in the Kharkiv region. The explosion brings the ceiling down. This is not an isolated case. In Dachnoye, Rodinske and Slaviansk the pattern repeats itself: anti-tank mines used as hand-thrown demolition charges, after drones failed to dislodge the defenders. The war in Ukraine is showing that cutting-edge technology does not always win battles.
While the West was selling the 21st-century soldier kitted out with FELIN systems (thermal sights, cameras for firing around corners), the reality at the front is very different. A 20-euro drone locates a platoon with that equipment, and a hand-thrown anti-tank mine wipes it off the map. A FELIN kit costs several thousand euros; a mine, a few hundred. The cost-effectiveness ratio tilts toward the simple and the powerful.
Criticism of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers abounds, but there is an uncomfortable consensus: the Russian infantry, hardened by real combat, is demonstrating an ability to adapt that its Western counterparts have never had to develop. Meanwhile, the war goes on, and the "rats" in their burrows keep being eliminated with methods no general had foreseen.
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