Defence ministry fits anti-tank barriers and ‘fortifications which will be supported by firepower to stop and destroy the enemy’
Lithuania has installed “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank barriers on bridges that link the country to Russia.
Its defence ministry also said “firepower” had been built around another fortified bridge over the Neman River to stop a potential Russian attack.
“Fortifications will be supported by firepower, in case it’s needed, to stop and destroy the enemy,” it said.
The Neman River forms part of Lithuania’s border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. It is 580 miles long and flows from Belarus through Lithuania and then into the North Sea.
You’d be surprised how much of modern warfare is pretty medieval in a way.
When I was in the army, that sort of comment was pretty common in the earlier lecturers.
Basically boils down to limited resources. Not everyone in the military gets to have those toys, and armies still need to get their troops in if they want to invade, and building roads and bridges is pretty inefficient when there’s roads. And if those roads have spiky things which prevent tanks from moving, well, then… gonna have to deal with that.