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Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by pixl97 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @05:43PM (#36462911)
I can only imagine in the US that if we could not use aircraft directly on the convoy, say they have very good air defense, we'd have dumped the bridges on the interstates in less than a day.
Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 24, 2023 @05:53PM (#36462977)
Yes, and I'm pretty sure Russia could do that too - if they were getting Blitzkrieged by some outside enemy force. Here, it was a theoretically friendly and small force, that suddenly turned around and drove towards Moscow. Given how much damage blowing up bridges and highways would do to the country, and somewhat unclear threat from the approaching mercenaries, I don't think anyone on the defense side considered dropping a bridge on the highway to be a reasonable move.
Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by hurflmurfl on Saturday June 24, 2023 @06:20PM (#36463162)
From what I've heard (personal hearsay, got no independent sources), some excavators were sent to ruin highways.

Edit: here's a link but this is not on the main highway. Unsure of the scale of this "operation" and if this was ordered from top brass or local initiative.

https://meduza.io/news/2023/06/24/v-lipetskoy-oblasti-gde-na...

Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by tguvot on Saturday June 24, 2023 @06:41PM (#36463289)
they did bomb one of their own bridges (there is a video). and there were rumors that they plan to blow up few more
Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by hutzlibu on Saturday June 24, 2023 @06:03PM (#36463063)
"I don't think anyone on the defense side considered dropping a bridge on the highway to be a reasonable move."

It surely was considered. I can imagine in the state of panic even tactical nukes were considered, but sure, not reasonable.

But if Wagner forces would have actually pushed through, then they definitely would have blown up bridges, if the alternative would have been Moscow under siege or house to house fighting.

Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by AbrahamParangi on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:27PM (#36464043)
To be clear though, there is no convoy on earth that the US Air Force can’t strike.
Re:Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around by tekknik on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:16AM (#36479925)
The Afghans would like a word with you.