Taking it down is key to recapture the South and Crimea. With the current front, what can NATO send to bring it down forever? What can reach it?
Crimean Bridge
Taking it down is key to recapture the South and Crimea. With the current front, what can NATO send to bring it down forever? What can reach it?
Last time I checked it is still damaged enough and has limited capacity for both rail and road traffic. Truck still use the ferry.
ATACMS has a range of about 190 miles, so the halfway point between the current front and mariupol is about where the line needs to be pushed to launch these cartoon missles from HIMARS
They can do that now from this spot near the Dnipro river, they just need the missiles.
I love the six little circles on front to pretend it's a normal rocket pod
Typical ISIS-American tactics
A bunch of Storm Shadows that Ukraine already has could do the trick.
Dumb question: wouldn't Storm Shadows be more vulnerable over the open sea? Or do they have some sort of sea skimming mode?
Not a dumb question
Storm Shadow could certainly do it, the problem is getting the planes in range.
Not doing your job for you CIA, do your own research.
>the cia doesnt has to come to PrepHole to work out how to knock out the kerch bridge
They can already do it (or at least they already have the range to try it). But it's not the time I guess. That card must be used during peak Russian shitfest.
Better to leave it open but cut the supply lines to Kherson and Crimea so that there's an easy escape route for vatniks. That way you can blow it after they're all gone.
there's no point in taking it down completely until Ukraine takes Melitpol/Mariupol.
Storm Shadows can already reach it. They haven't tried hitting it yet because they probably have better uses for those Storm Shadows at the moment and the Kerch Bridge won't become relevant until the rail line running through Melitopol is cut.
They don't need to destroy it, just make it too dangerous to use.
Fire control over the entrance road will do.
A coordinated attack on one, or both of the only two train maintenance hubs for the Moscow subway system would create chaos for the Kremlin. Do it.
Russia might actually have the foresight now to have bridge sections in reserve, so their repair time will be a lot faster in the future.
This means you actually have to plan the strike to a point where 1. you can follow up with new strikes at your discretion and 2. Even if Russia adapts their air defense and blocks follow up strikes, you've cut the link at a critical time.
Presently neither are true; until the Tokmak connection is cut, Kerch isn't essential for military presence in Kherson and Crimea yet, and though they have the storm shadow; that is very much a finite and strategic resource which they can't afford to spent on repeated bombardments.
>Russia might actually have the foresight
lol.
this has to be the most moronic cope I've ever seen
>bro, they've got backup pieces of BRIDGE they can just deploy
>what's that, they didn't even build it in the first place?
>nah trust, they're gonna air lift sections of bridge to replace any damaged part
Reminder the kerch bridge was a spite project intentionally designed to frick over Ukrainian trade.
The height of the bridge is intentionally low to block Panamax height cargo ships (37.5 m tall) out of the sea of azov
The suez canal is limited to 35m, there's that. Russians definitely wanted to conquer the region, I don't think they wanted to shoot themselves in the foot, like that.
You don’t want to strike it now - you want to strike it when it’s use is necessary and urgent.