DIY-HP-LED
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Well, the way I understand the facts and trains is the Russian military are very dependent on them and from what I can understand from reporting is their logistical tail is down to around 25km by road now, for large scale offensive operations. So, having the capability of destroying rail infrastructure at a distance should hurt the Russian offensive military operations the most. They had a critical shortage of military trucks before the war and Ukraine has been targeting them with artillery and gruella operations behind the lines. They need to and probably are developing drones specifically designed to take out railway bridges. The German V1 traveled at 400mph and carried a warhead over 1800 lbs with a pulse jet engine that produced less than 800 lbs thrust! If you are powering a fast suicide drone with a small gasoline engine, it only has to last for a couple of hours at the most, so you can boost its performance considerably these days! A special fuel mixture with nitro and a cheap two stage electric supercharger will do wonders for performance, at least until the fucker flies apart. The point is though, Ukraine could land the suckers precisely on target using GPS or have loitering train killer versions that would dive in front of a fastmoving train, even automatically. Shit if they can put facial recognition into a disposable killer drone, they can do this for a moving train. Dive into the tracks from 10,000 feet 10 meters in front of the train, with a 1000 lb warhead it doesn't need to be that accurate, but it will be, nonetheless.It would be possible to fuck up some railway lines enough to make it too expensive to fix, with a little planning, if it becomes necessary.
Flights of three drones each, maybe three flights per rail line. They drop explosive in three spots each, about 100-200 yards apart...Repeat that three times, a couple of miles apart, and keep the last location set into your artillery. If they bother to try to repair the line, let them get just about done, then bomb the shit out of them and it again...
seems like it ought to work...but i'm just an office chair strategist.
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