Tank Trap in Ukraine

#ukrainewar #tank #military

[tacotacotington]

Big hole is a timeless counter measure

[cortexreaver]

Yeah, digging without earthmoving equipment is MAJOR effort.

[richardross]

If you think that a tank ditch takes very little effort. Try digging one! Its a lot of work. Especially when 3 of your BN's dozers are down because the Army forgot to stock the normal wear parts. Good Luck, Rick

[MikeWood]

My regiment played OpFor for a National Guard armored unit back in the 80s. I remember vividly getting an engineering element to dig a simple tank trap across a dirt road near the rise of a hill. Driver/commander never saw it and buried an M-60 right to the driver's hatch.

[davidelliott]

British tanks in WW1 were built to shoot up and cross trenches. They carried a build of canes to drop into deep dugouts. These rolls worked.

[saladiniv]

i think that's a mine plow. not for obstacle clearance, instead it's supposed to be lowered before driving across a minefield. it's supposed to dig up the mines in front of the tracks and pushing them of to the side (hopefully without exploding them).

[OTDMilitaryHistory]

Anti tank ditches will never go out of style

[U.S.MachineMike]

First using sticks for countering drones and now holes in the ground for countering tanks.

[hugo]

This happen for lack of air cover, if you owned the sky you can bridge most traps easy...

[firesupport]

What I appreciate from IR cams from MRAPS decent enough to analyze the depth of the roads

[Thane]

Tanks are rated for the width of trench they can cross. Make it wider than that and they can get stuck, if the sides are built correctly, and maintained. Easy to say, rather harder to pull off, especially if you are close enough to the enemy to get shelled.

In WWI, some of the British tanks carried "fascines" (not sure on spelling). These were large bundles of logs carried on top of the tank to be dumped into the ditch and then driven over. It usually took multiple tanks to drop enough to create the bridge. This likely would not work today given the design of modern tanks but mainly because the ditch would probably be covered by accurate fire. Just getting there would be a challenge and stopping to drop the bundle, or turning around to back in a towed version, would be worse.

Maybe an expendable tank with a specially fitted structure could be driven in and other tanks drive over it. That is assuming the enemy let the odd tank make it to the trench, and if it did, the other tanks trying to use it would be driving right into a kill zone on both sides of the ditch.

I'm sure engineers have ways of breeching them, the trick is getting there alive and staying that way long enough to do the job. Then see above about the kill zone/funnel for tanks trying to use it.

[raico]

imagine getting stuck in middle of an artillery strike in enemy territory surrounded by mines, you can't do shit, didn't even had chance to fight and you can just pray a peaceful death.

[martinsonofwar]

When a sharp stick is more effective than your laser gun. 😂

[engine]

people were comparing basic earthworks to the obsolete, giant submarine bunkers of ww2 as if they were upgrades in a video game

[SouthCentralOntario]

I remember that post with the plow moving the dragons teeth lol it was funny

[miguelmorales]

Tank traps are not made to keep tanks from crossing over them. They are made to bottle neck an advancing force, which then makes them much easier to target.

[Sasa-vjqw]

A good old humble hole...

Trapt Mamoths and other prey in the past...

Trapping tanks today

[improvisedsurvival]

Low tech countermeasures work. No need to overthink. This works on abrams too people so a more advanced tank don’t matter.

[cixinx]

Western media was making jokes about the shovel guys digging defensive networks behind the main fighting line. Now western tanks are getting trapped by their handy work.

[noahbachmann]

The hole isn't a problem, unless you're in artillery range.