To protect themselves from Ukrainian drone attacks, the Russians have fenced off the road from Bakhmut to Chasiv Yar, creating a 2-km mesh tunnel. In this way, the Russians are trying to rescue their equipment and personnel from threats from drones.
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Once these nets get damaged by Ukrainians they will surely cause a lot of problems for russian vehicles passing through.
I'd love to see how this pans out for them.
So one drone blows up and makes a big hole in the nets, then the others stream through and just travel along the road under the nets until some unlucky vatnik gets it?
Just park at the end and wait for them 🤔 nice predictable target and traps everyone behind. Or fly the drone right in the end, difficult but still margin
Just one hole or using a drone with phosphorus and it's open season on the meatwave again! If it would even stop a drone. Shrapnel from an explosion won't get caught on the net - it will get stopped by meat or metal!
No Ukrainian intervention required. The first vehicle passing through will likely crash into a pole, continue, drag the whole of the rest down whilst wrapping netting around the wheel axels and disabling the vehicle. Or a few vehicles doing variations of the same.
So russians created their own 2km trap?? Ukrainians can:
1. Remote mine it via drones.
2. Or wait till a column of vehicles enters it, then collapse the netting by blowing the poles at the beginning and end - thus trapping the russians inside.
3. Or just burn the netting with thermite.
I guess this should be easy to counter-measure for the ZSU.
Some big drone-copters like the Baba-Yaga pulling lines with sharp-edged hooks at the end above the nets.
Kind of what‘s happening in the Baltic sea with ship-anchors and sea cables.
Yea that sure helps because a Drone can't come from the top down, like in the easiest vector of attack, the direction the vehicle is driving already. How stupid are they?
A remote detonation trigger should do it. First drone get caught in the net so pilot detonates it and the next drone tries to get through, if that gets caught as well repeat until there’s a big enough hole to get through.
When the repair team gets sent out hit them with drones.
During WWI artillery was used to disrupt barbed wire so a few shells heavy enough to smash through the net then explode at ground level to knock the supports down could be effective.
The problem isn’t the processing it’s the image quality, you don’t want to put an expensive camera on something you want to mass produce then blow up. If you watch FPV drone recordings you can see they’re monochrome and low resolution.
In this specific case where the net is static and the targets/vehicles probably move below that and not stand still, this get a bit more tricky, I have to give that to the Russians.
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I'd love to see how this pans out for them.
Wooden poles
🙄😂😂😂
Waiting to see the Ukraine response.
If they damage the net, can it impede or cause problem to the vehicles that will be tangled with the net?.
1. Remote mine it via drones.
2. Or wait till a column of vehicles enters it, then collapse the netting by blowing the poles at the beginning and end - thus trapping the russians inside.
3. Or just burn the netting with thermite.
Anyway, what is the maximum stretch a thermite drone can cover, while unloading?
TIL that nets are “technology” to russians. Not surprising, I guess. 🤷♂️
Some big drone-copters like the Baba-Yaga pulling lines with sharp-edged hooks at the end above the nets.
Kind of what‘s happening in the Baltic sea with ship-anchors and sea cables.
Ukrainians will need only one Flamethrower-Drone to disable hundreds of meters of this fences :)
During WWI artillery was used to disrupt barbed wire so a few shells heavy enough to smash through the net then explode at ground level to knock the supports down could be effective.
Maybe knock down a section of net then scatter anti vehicle caltrops and antipersonnel mines into that section to impede repairs.