Russia Invades Ukraine. Volume 4

You'd set light to the tarmac on the bridge and possibly bend and buckle it enough to be unusable with an airburst but to destroy it properly you'd need to detonate a nuclear weapon in the water as close as physically possible and let the movement of thousands of tons of water do the damage.

Totally O/T...

After the Trinity test shot for FatMan it was initially thought that the tower had been vaporised, it had actually been broken into umpteen pieces and scattered across the New Mexican desert.

Scientists are like engineers, we love to measure stuff and the Los Alamos scientists were no different so they measured the remains of the tower and discovered that virtually none of the steel had been burnt away by the intense heat of the blast as the heat pulse had been too short.

So being the sane and sober scientists that they were they came up with Project Orion which would launch a multi-thousand ton single stage space ship into orbit powered by nuclear bombs...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Project-Orion-Story-Atomi...

The problem was more a lack of anything called a laser

I’m sure the vast majority don’t want to be there too. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of Russians have done very little indeed to challenge the mindset of the mad tyrant that heads up their nation and his supporting cabal, being content to acquiesce to their ever continuing reign. In Gorbachev’s time, there was a glimmer of them modernising and opening up, but they allowed that to be snuffed out to return to dictatorship. Longing to see some internal self-help and good old east European defenestration of troublesome tyrants; then I might find more sympathy than can simply drive a shrug currently.

I remember an interview early in the war with a old Ukrainian guy, he said something like 'kill all they send, soon they will stop coming'

Maybe the poor idiot russian boys will grow a backbone and turn on thier superiors and follow the path that Yevgeny Prigozhin showed them last year...

Those tanks are big, and can’t move. I wonder if a drone could carry thermite against those defences? Park it on top and ignite, so it burns its way downwards onto the surface of the tank.

Each tank holds a few day's fuel. A refinery can take months to repair .

It's the reverse of give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.

Reading in the Danish newspaper at Russia is sending convicts to the frontline. Prisoners offered a real Dirty Dozen deal of being freed from prison if they sign up.

Downside? Their expected lifespan is reduced to two months on average!

I thought the whole point of the attacks was they weren't hitting the holding tanks, but the delicate/expensive/irreplaceable processing equipment, so happily that work looks like a total waste of time and resources

Yes that's the stuff they will find it very difficult to replace....the cumulative impact over time will be substantial I would think.

They say it was equipped with a machine gun. Could it be the guy in the back is holding one