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This is a great video & my favorite because it's actually so relevant to what's happening at this point in History. I'm surprised you haven't tried recreating the battlefield in Ukraine & tried different types of Assaults. Sure it would be impossible to be 100% accurate but you could come close.
Yeh there are a million things I want to try but realistically I can only do max 4-5 wargames per week, and there is just never enough time to really get into it.
In some of the units I was in, we used to use the Bradley's 25mm Bushmaster HE rounds on the minefield as part of the mine breaching doctrine. This was done before approaching the minefield on foot to breach it. The idea wasn't to necessarily kill the AT mines, though a direct hit would set one off but to try and clear the Anti-Personnel mines mixed in with the AT mines. A proper AT minefield would AP mines mixed in to hamper breaching attempts.
Tank group calls in CAS: "We need ground fire to clear a mine field to be able to pass" Grim Reapers are sortied: "Minefield can't exist if there is no road left" Tank Group: "I mean he has a point...." LMAO. I love the stupid stuff. Great work as always!
Unless a tank can shrug off the blast from a sub-munition, in which case it's viable if you only put tanks down the road. (More likely it would at least destroy a track, even if it's fixable it's a problem).
Normally, I'd agree with Bill Murray and say, "Don't drive on the railroad tracks," but in this case? Seems like a better plan. Are thermobarics not an option? I would think overpressure would do the trick, unless the mines will only explode if they're magnetically activated. I would not want to be in Tank #1, though.
Five A-10 should pack 6750 cannon rounds and 10000 Mk82 sub-munitions. If the minefield is 1km long and 25m wide, that's almost 1 munition every 1m2. Quite decent, especially with explosive rounds. But i would ask for a second pass...
With the clusterbombs you kind of create a new minefield for infantry^^ With 500 lb bombs you destroy your road, so we need more Gau 8's on the battlefield^^
Something ideal for this scenario would be the M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) which clears a 100 m by 8 m area. I highly recommend looking up some footage of the MICLIC in use on YT because the explosion simply looks AWESOME.
This is exactly why I came to the comments. I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve seen an M58 do it’s thing in real life, and I will never forget the experience. It was literally designed for exactly this scenario!!
Both Ukraine and Russia have MICLIC systems. If deploying a few of these line charges would be sufficient to open up the lanes, it would have been done by now. But there are probably several reasons why this isn't the case, including depth and width of the minefields, that there is not just one belt but many (several lines of defense, composed of several belts or clusters of mines), vulnerability of the MICLIC vehicles, etc. The US, NATO, and Ukraine are pouring vast intellectual and intelligence resources into figuring out how to get through these minefields - so it must truly be a daunting challenge - not to say that there arent solutions which the US/NATO arent considering, such as covert carpet bombing of the mine fields and defensive lines with JDAMs, JSOWs, etc. Since these are being given to Ukraine, a B-2 dropping them standoff, undetected by Russian radar, might be deniable. After all - if all Russia has for proof of a strike is the remains of US-made munitions, that says nothing as these are being overtly provided.
@@lippertwe What is bro waffling about? 😉 I think everything that we said was about the situation from the video which is basically a dream scenario for the MICLIC - you need to clear a narrow passage through a minefield quickly. Ukraine’s strategic situation, large-scale mine clearance, etc. is a different can of worms. Of course, I agree that it’s not that simple when you need to mount a mass counter-offensive and worry about vast minefields. One obvious problem is that when you travel through a narrow choke point, like the one created by the line charge, you become an easy target for artillery, airstrikes, etc.
For the gun it looks like it would need a few degrees of automatic gimbal to accurately track the road. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tiny mine clearing drones with thermal cameras and little bit of RDX, used after sunset. The micro drones could be dispersed from a slow helicopter or cruise missile type thing with its own thermal camera.
A lot of fun. Try a few other things - making the minefield broader and deeper, try using JDAMs or JSOWs dropped from a strategic bomber(s), try "burying" the mines. On the latter point, I wonder if the mines being on the surface of the road make them more vulnerable to certain munitions.
I think the mines have fairly large hit boxes. Which is why the 30 mm obliterated them. When real anti tank mines probably would need a fairly direct hit. Regardless it was interesting watching the cone of fire from aircraft at different altitudes
Shame there's no thermobaric weapons in DCS. They're all about pressure. Cluster bombs are basically scattering a fresh minefield, the reason why there's an international treaty banning them. The GAU worked so how about a few IFV's with autocannons from ground level? Cheaper than A-10's?
At one point the Russians did create a 4 engine plane with design to have sonic boom wave be the weapon to destroy buildings etc but the engine tech just wasn’t there.
This is a great video cap, the Finding Nemo reference made me chuckle Here's an interesting scenario, not sure if it's been done, but could a squadron of the RAF's F4s have defended the Falklands in 1982?
An A10 cannot effectively destroy a minefield. The cannon isn't effective enough to bother using and any bombs used would do almost nothing. Why you may ask? Because they use the wrong explosives. MCLIC line charges use C4 as the primary explosive. C4 unlike the explosives used in most munitions is called a fast explosive. It rips things apart instead of pushing them apart. This means it's detonation rips apart the internal mechanisms of the mines detonating them. Mk80 series bombs or any other weapon uses slow explosives which are perfect for making and throwing sharpnel or for deforming copper for HEAT projectiles. They do not have the ability to destroy the internal mechanisms of the landmines since they do not explode fast enough. Anyone trying to say that cluster bombs could be used for mine clearing have absolutely no idea why the MCLIC uses C4 and not a derivative of TNT.
I did. 20 minutes of flight for four aircraft? About $29K sans ammo. Of course, those aircraft would have to be loitering for who-knows-how-long just to be prepared for that and I didnt calculate expendables. An APOBS is $11K.
The trenches tend to zigzag. A-10 strafes in a straight line. Apache is a better option for guns. HE rockets are even better for either platform against trenches.
Maybe some line charges mounted to aircraft hard points would be effective at clearing mines. Probably have to hover while firing which would make Apache a good option. 2 to 4 line charges could probably be carried. They could be slightly angled outwards to create a cleared wedge.
The disadvantage of using a MICLIC on the ground is that it is exposed to fire for a long period of time. A helicopter carried line charge could greatly reduce the time of exposure and bring some firepower too to help suppress nearby ground forces.
The Russians were using their version of that system in urban warfare in some of the towns they hit early on. They'd send the rocket into a building and use the trailing charge to clear an avenue of attack. Not a great system for it.
@@TheCaptainbeefylog If I remember correctly, US Marines used MICLICs to clear a few streets from insurgents in Fallujah in ‘04 and those seem to have worked for them pretty well.
I bet the overpressure from an air burst fuel air device would get 100 percent of the mines in the affected area with little need for accuracy, and less tendency to dig holes in the ground
Yea, more Ukraine videos please. There’s lots happening there right now and it would be great to do a bunch of missions there. Whether it’s the S-400 destruction, Kerch bridge destruction or anything else, please please please more Crimea and Ukraine action.
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I was thinking this when it was first announced Ukraine would be getting the cluster munitions. But just to have thorough science...everyone grab your favorite artillery piece (HIMARS, M777, Self Propelled Howitzers, etc.) and try with cluster munitions again. Also if guns worked so well can we try with aircraft Ukraine is more likely to get their hands on? Like a Bronco or Pucara?
I read in a book they tried using the A-10s gun to ignite and burn the oil filled trenches the Iraqis had dug to stop the allied advances. They fired a lot of rounds but only managed to start a few small fires that quickly went out. The crude oil was just too thick to ignite properly.
If you want to burn out oil you (if US) call for immediate smoke from Artillery. That mission uses white phosphorus shells.. which burns and keeps burning rather nicely.
@@duanesamuelson2256 Very true about WP ability to ignite and sustain combustion, but I think the trenches were beyond artillery range and narrow so arty would have a hard time hitting them.
I know the book you are talking about, A-10 Warthog in the Persian Gulf. I believe they were saying that the oil encapsulated the WP if the bullet went into the trench of oil. LOVE that book.
I had been wondering about how to deal with smaller, anti-personnel mines in fields. How big would the munition need to be? I'm thinking of some high-rate grenade launcher. The larger AT mines are far easier to find with Mark-1 eyeball.
Looking at the wiki page for the US Army M58 MICLIC (mine clearing line charge) says that 5lbs(2.27kg) of C4 per foot(30cm) will clear a path ~26ft wide (8m). Which by my math is about 1kg of C4 per square meter (a suspiciously clean ratio, I'd wager the actual number needed is lower, and it was rounded up to be on the safe side).
@@brandonwestfall3241Roger that. Only video I saw of actually on the ground there were like 7 mines visible in maybe 1m square. So I don't think more than 2KB would be required. I don't know .. can you say? what's relative explosive power of that much C4 compared to M19 round. (Seems that only SA has 20mm.) _Addendum: _*_Oh,_* M61 Vulcan is 20mm. Also M197, again 20mm. Effective to use gatling?
@@zilfondel Chain dragging would probably only set off AP mines, AT mines would probably not go off, unless you're using a comically large chain. A quick wiki search says average AT mines need more than 100kg of weight to go off.
If the airspace is permissive enough for an A-10 (which Ukraine's certainly isn't), it would also be permissive enough for an AC-130 - and those have far more surgical accuracy, loitering time and much greater firepower available. If the Ukrainians could do this, they would have already done it with the SU-25, which at least has the proverbial saving grace of better thrust. And if they want to use cluster munitions, they might as well just use artillery cluster munitions.
Tbh it's a waste of a sortie for fixed wing aircraft. Not worth the flight hours or the risk. For rotory wing though it would make a lot more sense. The real problem is that there isn't a map that shows where the mines are or how many of them there are and you can't just shoot every inch of road.
Personally I'd be in favour of using an IFV with a 30mm cannon at the head of the column to blast a way through. The MBT doesn't have to sit around stationary and therefore more vulnerable whilst it awaits the arrival of the A-10.
That was almost as much carnage - and fun - as your bit with B1s dropping loooong sticks on Russian armored convoy from a similar altitude. Can you imagine sitting in the forward tank watching all these GAU-8 rounds coming in low from behind you ... and devastating the road in front of you. We never see segments showing thousands of these exploding 30mm rounds hitting a hard road surface. That was great. Can you try this again clearing a path in a minefield? How about put them in an S300s and manpad environment ..based at a distance. Let's assume these minefields fields are still pretty far from the Russian lines of defense, so I suspect a low approach would work, no?
“Obviously hidden in real life…”. Not really. Normally the purpose of the minefield isn’t to cause damage, but is actually to convince the enemy to go somewhere that you have prepared to kill them. Hiding the mines actually works against you.
Has anyone made models for the smart mines currently in use (German AD2 on the Ukrainian side and PTKM-1R on the Russian side)? Those only have to be within 50 meters of the road in order to target a vehicle on the road.
Renaming my A-10 to the Princess Diana-10. She would have loved these aircraft clearing mines. Probably would have had her Wills and that minge(Harry) flying one
The problem with the cluster bombs is some munitions won't detonate leaving a bunch of new mines along the road and the fields nearby. In fact, up to 1/3 of the submunitions won't explode on impact. Meaning you've actually scattered more unexploded ordinance in that area than there was to begin with.
I think it would be really difficult to hit a mine with a 120 mm HE or HEAT round because the high angle at with the rounds would need to impact would create a high risk of ricochets and duds. Maybe a canister round, like the M1028, would be a good option… Edit: Since those were Challenger 2s, maybe HESH (HEP) rounds would do well…
Without watching the video, I can tell you: nope. It's why armored mine clearing vehicles have detcord that is launched, and mine plows designed to have adjustable and adaptable heights intended to overturn mines (which basically renders them useless since they are shaped/directed charges). An A10 will not be successful in clearing a path. Moreover, they are not designed to fly in contested airspace...
RUclips's algorithm is serving me up videos on the USAF's apparent re-attempt to retire the Warthogs and use F-35A's for CAS purposes. Maybe you might want to see, within DCS at least, how much more/less effective the F-35 is in various CAS functions? I assume that the A-10 has advantages in terms of loiter time and loadouts, while F-35's have the advantage of better target identification tech and not having "old plane" maintenance issues. It might be interesting to do tests in various CAS scenarios, with different potential adversaries (think Taliban vs Russia/China).
They use flying explosives to make lanes. I think there 200 300 meters long 5 to 8 meters wide. I think they been doing it for decades, I don't remember if that's what they where using in desert storm, I was on ship. It's a rocket with a line of explosives connected.. Maybe it was more a 100 to 150 meters, I'm old and that was a long life ago.. 👍👍👍
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Ukraine-Russia Series:
US-Supplied Cluster Bombs: ruclips.net/video/W4aRf9l5vGQ/видео.html
F/A-18 Hornet vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/nRrmU1upBqk/видео.html
F-16A MLU vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/FHxPMz5MhdI/видео.html
Patriot vs KH-47M" Kinzhal: ruclips.net/video/C-q1tWlLh0I/видео.html
Eurofighter vs Su-57: ruclips.net/video/OnKuV6259ck/видео.html
MALD, Storm Shadow & AARGM-ER: ruclips.net/video/d6p0YY_VQZY/видео.html
Storm Shadow vs Russian SAMs: ruclips.net/video/5wJPbBAj0WM/видео.html
Iskander vs Various SAMS: ruclips.net/video/KxxahORODBA/видео.html
HIMARS vs Russian SHORADs: ruclips.net/video/DI6yIt0goPA/видео.html
Storm Shadow vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/UsHa9Fe29gI/видео.html
Rapid Dragon vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/rvUTl6xjxqY/видео.html
Ukraine With JDAM-ER: ruclips.net/video/deWnN1319Xw/видео.html
UK Typhoons vs Su-57: ruclips.net/video/OnKuV6259ck/видео.html
F-22 Raptors vs Russia President: ruclips.net/video/Fcmt2kdebvI/видео.html
Air Force One vs Russia: ruclips.net/video/IDVULTyzcEw/видео.html
AGM-179 JAGM vs 2S38 & T-90: ruclips.net/video/6-f8GJzxg5E/видео.html
SEAD & ATACMS vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/HJ0MgwXydyY/видео.html
IMP US Strike vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/xSUAiTVwI6o/видео.html
HIMARS ATACMS vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/uU_SPj0HQgo/видео.html
Sa-11 Buk Firing Sea Sparrow: ruclips.net/video/uBoryuBHfBQ/видео.html
US Strike vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/KMwYjJghQiA/видео.html
Rus SEAD vs Modernized Patriot: ruclips.net/video/FdoyfKgaONE/видео.html
Rus Bombers vs Modernized Patriot: ruclips.net/video/4Y961tLNE18/видео.html
JDAM vs S-400 Network: ruclips.net/video/wP4sfDG-01E/видео.html
Kinzhal vs Pac-3 & IRIS-T: ruclips.net/video/i0GzbajI0mU/видео.html
F16 or Gripen for Ukraine?: ruclips.net/video/Y-k71nfap4Q/видео.html
Mig-31 vs NATO Black Sea AWACS: ruclips.net/video/vFOzjW25ItI/видео.html
R-37M Long Range Shootdown: ruclips.net/video/-3LKGL4w9Q4/видео.html
Drone Swarm vs NATO Defense: ruclips.net/video/wDBOSd9qCDs/видео.html
Patrio PAC-3/IRIS-T vs Missiles: ruclips.net/video/N5Z81iW8YNY/видео.html
MANPAD/IRIS-T vs Russian Missiles: ruclips.net/video/N9R9GUVcTyk/видео.html
AGM-158C LRASM vs Sevastopol: ruclips.net/video/GDZoDRhIIRw/видео.html
A-10s Operating in S-400 Nets: ruclips.net/video/5BwFlesg42o/видео.html
Modernized Su-27 vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/7llLDzeT2Bs/видео.html
Modernized F15/F16 vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/-TozTHbAXVs/видео.html
Can Su-57 Defend Russia From F-22/35: ruclips.net/video/E-oC3NgxC94/видео.html
IMPROVED Stealth vs Russian Bombers: ruclips.net/video/IgwLW4YKvVU/видео.html
Ukraine Using Hellfire Missile?: ruclips.net/video/s_1YHDTmPPw/видео.html
US Harpoons vs Russian Navy: ruclips.net/video/Oiee83CWRcE/видео.html
Ukraine Using APKWS?: ruclips.net/video/FBxV9YuAfaw/видео.html
Ukraine US HARMs vs Russian S-400: ruclips.net/video/eSyEOXsjWo8/видео.html
Patriot/NASAMS vs Supersonic Missiles: ruclips.net/video/i1q7uDeinA4/видео.html
Fulcrum/Flanker vs Foxbat/Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/BhXfxc94JAU/видео.html
NASAMS vs Russian Cruise Missiles: ruclips.net/video/pJI_b95jzpk/видео.html
Russian KH-47M2 vs Polish Air Force: ruclips.net/video/cnrVxqL5q9w/видео.html
Su-27 & Drone vs Snake Island: ruclips.net/video/T_oRoU2Ayfo/видео.html
Su-25s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/ryV65bUJzrw/видео.html
NATO Eurofighters vs Crimean AWACS: ruclips.net/video/EiJ2dFRh95g/видео.html
Patriot, Gepard & Gripen vs KH-65: ruclips.net/video/ZhxdrNjig1g/видео.html
A-10s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/B0tZoo0uLh4/видео.html
USN Tomahawk Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/0vpi8xBygV8/видео.html
USAF Stealth Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/IJbf9Bcxnw0/видео.html
Ukrainian Jets Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/I8FumuZReB4/видео.html
F-22 Raptors vs Russian Fighters: ruclips.net/video/ComRcmrwJWk/видео.html
Raptor/Eagle vs Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/keqYmuSEo-8/видео.html
USAF Bombers vs Mariupol Defenses: ruclips.net/video/aCsboOG0QU4/видео.html
Ukraine Bombs Snake Island: ruclips.net/video/BX696MKdkb8/видео.html
Stealth Fighters vs Russian Bombers: ruclips.net/video/rym90jnQDsA/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #3: ruclips.net/video/NIjoyIieOzY/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #2: ruclips.net/video/snjfbj_EwW4/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #1: ruclips.net/video/Bxwh6MGLJNc/видео.html
Russia Nukes Britain: ruclips.net/video/rzk45RFQwA8/видео.html
Ukraine Uses Danish F-16s: ruclips.net/video/17Pikrp0QaY/видео.html
Ukraine Uses Polish Mig-29s: ruclips.net/video/zCi4tAIzuOU/видео.html
Russian-Britain Missile Attack: ruclips.net/video/zwIGfabvzHA/видео.html
Ghost Of Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/Yrct8V4n1-U/видео.html
Belgorod Raid: ruclips.net/video/mQykTxt6ftw/видео.html
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US Strike vs Odessa ruclips.net/video/KeiOHgzic6Y/видео.html
Russian Helo Rocket Lob: ruclips.net/video/118GgGnP_sM/видео.html
Russian Su-25 vs US Patriot SAM: ruclips.net/video/asp69ZD_tO0/видео.html
Understanding Russian SAMs: ruclips.net/video/R4xTxLNZXcw/видео.html
Ukrainian Jets Road Operations: ruclips.net/video/hBpzQhinPbw/видео.html
Russian 40 Mile Convoy: ruclips.net/video/Vr_-2FLblBk/видео.html
Flanker vs Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/VOAuOFLJGk4/видео.html
try to bomb each other with A-10s. no other weapons
This is a great video & my favorite because it's actually so relevant to what's happening at this point in History. I'm surprised you haven't tried recreating the battlefield in Ukraine & tried different types of Assaults. Sure it would be impossible to be 100% accurate but you could come close.
Yeh there are a million things I want to try but realistically I can only do max 4-5 wargames per week, and there is just never enough time to really get into it.
That’s a lot of videos lol! I’m sure the important ones can be “modernized” and redone to bring them up to date.
Comprehensive or what ? 👍🏻
I learned from my dad that any ship can be a minesweeper once. :)
If brave enough even you could be a minesweeper
my condolences
@@sebi-t6i I think that was a joke that was spreading around in the military. Probably because I had an uncle that was in the navy.
All forces, everywhere have the same “nuances’
If you build the hull for purpose? A ship can potentially sweep three or more mines at a time.
Before having to go home for rebuilding entirely
Loving the A-10 series
big same
I imagine that road would be difficult to traverse after that treatment.
17:04 That show was called "Rat Patrol" IIRC.
thx
In some of the units I was in, we used to use the Bradley's 25mm Bushmaster HE rounds on the minefield as part of the mine breaching doctrine. This was done before approaching the minefield on foot to breach it. The idea wasn't to necessarily kill the AT mines, though a direct hit would set one off but to try and clear the Anti-Personnel mines mixed in with the AT mines. A proper AT minefield would AP mines mixed in to hamper breaching attempts.
The 1960’s TV show Poosh mentioned was ‘Desert Rats’ I believe.
thx
Tank group calls in CAS: "We need ground fire to clear a mine field to be able to pass"
Grim Reapers are sortied: "Minefield can't exist if there is no road left"
Tank Group: "I mean he has a point...."
LMAO. I love the stupid stuff. Great work as always!
GR logic??
@@grimreapers May be flawed logic Cap, but a form of it nonetheless! Lmao.
Fun place to go check the road for mines, after all those clusters... XD
the rat patrol was the name of that show i believe sir
Given the dud rate on those cluster munitions, not only are they harder to use they're making the problem worse!
Unless a tank can shrug off the blast from a sub-munition, in which case it's viable if you only put tanks down the road. (More likely it would at least destroy a track, even if it's fixable it's a problem).
Biden says less than 10% dud rate….I’m sure we all believe that 😂
@@dexlab7539They actually say less than a 2.5% dud rate. But yeah you just exchanged AT mines for AP mines.
Normally, I'd agree with Bill Murray and say, "Don't drive on the railroad tracks," but in this case? Seems like a better plan. Are thermobarics not an option? I would think overpressure would do the trick, unless the mines will only explode if they're magnetically activated. I would not want to be in Tank #1, though.
AT mines are not usually hidden very well, but it's enough for tank crew to miss and trigger them due to limited visibility and high speed.
Five A-10 should pack 6750 cannon rounds and 10000 Mk82 sub-munitions.
If the minefield is 1km long and 25m wide, that's almost 1 munition every 1m2.
Quite decent, especially with explosive rounds. But i would ask for a second pass...
With the clusterbombs you kind of create a new minefield for infantry^^
With 500 lb bombs you destroy your road,
so we need more Gau 8's on the battlefield^^
I’d be interested to know the failure rate of the GAU’s 30mm ammo but that’s just me being a skeptic lol. More A10s for the memes!!!
Detonating those mines would destroy the road.
Or helos. A good hind pilot could probably clear that field by themselves.
"so we need more Gau 8's on the battlefield^^"
Something ideal for this scenario would be the M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) which clears a 100 m by 8 m area. I highly recommend looking up some footage of the MICLIC in use on YT because the explosion simply looks AWESOME.
This is exactly why I came to the comments. I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve seen an M58 do it’s thing in real life, and I will never forget the experience. It was literally designed for exactly this scenario!!
@@Maverick0451Man, I wish I could witness the use of the MICLIC in real life. Although… I really like my hearing 😆
Both Ukraine and Russia have MICLIC systems. If deploying a few of these line charges would be sufficient to open up the lanes, it would have been done by now. But there are probably several reasons why this isn't the case, including depth and width of the minefields, that there is not just one belt but many (several lines of defense, composed of several belts or clusters of mines), vulnerability of the MICLIC vehicles, etc. The US, NATO, and Ukraine are pouring vast intellectual and intelligence resources into figuring out how to get through these minefields - so it must truly be a daunting challenge - not to say that there arent solutions which the US/NATO arent considering, such as covert carpet bombing of the mine fields and defensive lines with JDAMs, JSOWs, etc. Since these are being given to Ukraine, a B-2 dropping them standoff, undetected by Russian radar, might be deniable. After all - if all Russia has for proof of a strike is the remains of US-made munitions, that says nothing as these are being overtly provided.
@@lippertwe What is bro waffling about? 😉 I think everything that we said was about the situation from the video which is basically a dream scenario for the MICLIC - you need to clear a narrow passage through a minefield quickly. Ukraine’s strategic situation, large-scale mine clearance, etc. is a different can of worms.
Of course, I agree that it’s not that simple when you need to mount a mass counter-offensive and worry about vast minefields. One obvious problem is that when you travel through a narrow choke point, like the one created by the line charge, you become an easy target for artillery, airstrikes, etc.
Pity the A-10 doesn't have a Fuel Air Munition available. The blast wave from a FAM would detonate the mines with minimal damage to the road
“We cleared the mines!”
Tank commander staring at the cratered Moonscape in front of him: “…thanks?”
lol
puts a new meaning to "Plow the Road"
Fascinating concept haha...enjoying your stuff cheers
For the gun it looks like it would need a few degrees of automatic gimbal to accurately track the road. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tiny mine clearing drones with thermal cameras and little bit of RDX, used after sunset. The micro drones could be dispersed from a slow helicopter or cruise missile type thing with its own thermal camera.
Patent that and you just might win a government contract!
@@EWElife0313 Maybe this sort of thing is one reason why China banned gallium/germanium exports (it's used for thermal cameras)
great training exercise, nice line first two times Cap.
If you want to clear a path use the 30mm cannon, If you want to clear a minefield use the CBUs
I can imagine that traveling down a road that has been hit with 500 pound bombs would be a bitch even in a tank.
''tanks cant go around cuzz of mud'' turns the road into a casm, great succes
A lot of fun. Try a few other things - making the minefield broader and deeper, try using JDAMs or JSOWs dropped from a strategic bomber(s), try "burying" the mines. On the latter point, I wonder if the mines being on the surface of the road make them more vulnerable to certain munitions.
I think the mines have fairly large hit boxes. Which is why the 30 mm obliterated them.
When real anti tank mines probably would need a fairly direct hit.
Regardless it was interesting watching the cone of fire from aircraft at different altitudes
Shame there's no thermobaric weapons in DCS. They're all about pressure. Cluster bombs are basically scattering a fresh minefield, the reason why there's an international treaty banning them. The GAU worked so how about a few IFV's with autocannons from ground level? Cheaper than A-10's?
I wonder if the sonic boom of an aircraft flying at like 100 ft could set of the mines? Great videos!!
A10 isn't supersonic. They are 400 mph max speed.
@@castlekingside76 I didn't say the A10, just an aircraft.
That's an interesting thought. It might even work. 🤔
At one point the Russians did create a 4 engine plane with design to have sonic boom wave be the weapon to destroy buildings etc but the engine tech just wasn’t there.
What about those air-burst bombs? They might have enough over pressure to set off the mines, MAYBE? What you all think?
Request for: which SAM system is most effective when I wish to complain to my chef in his private jet.
Topical.
Just add small "gift" to luggage, job done 😂
This is a great video cap, the Finding Nemo reference made me chuckle
Here's an interesting scenario, not sure if it's been done, but could a squadron of the RAF's F4s have defended the Falklands in 1982?
Good idea.
4:20 _"Look at that, no crashes, guys."_
My first thought? You're not in the air yet, Cap.
lol
An A10 cannot effectively destroy a minefield. The cannon isn't effective enough to bother using and any bombs used would do almost nothing. Why you may ask? Because they use the wrong explosives. MCLIC line charges use C4 as the primary explosive. C4 unlike the explosives used in most munitions is called a fast explosive. It rips things apart instead of pushing them apart. This means it's detonation rips apart the internal mechanisms of the mines detonating them. Mk80 series bombs or any other weapon uses slow explosives which are perfect for making and throwing sharpnel or for deforming copper for HEAT projectiles. They do not have the ability to destroy the internal mechanisms of the landmines since they do not explode fast enough. Anyone trying to say that cluster bombs could be used for mine clearing have absolutely no idea why the MCLIC uses C4 and not a derivative of TNT.
Did you post the net cost of clearing that road? I would imagine the ammo for the A-10’s cannon would be a bargain compared to all the other methods.
I did. 20 minutes of flight for four aircraft? About $29K sans ammo. Of course, those aircraft would have to be loitering for who-knows-how-long just to be prepared for that and I didnt calculate expendables. An APOBS is $11K.
@@justinpowell1139 How to turn a minefield into a UXO cleanup site contaminated with depleted uranium.
Nothing beats a demining rope charge in cost.
Otherwise you could demine with rockeyes, of course, they would likely require demining themselves :)
Super enjoyable watch, this one!
What would this look like in contested airspace? Perhaps F16 escort and A10 mine clearing?
F-22s off in the distance as well possibly. US military always goes into hot zones with a clear numerical/technological advantage.
EA-18 first plus F-15X up top too
Anything can be a mine sweeper at least once
The TV show discussed at 17:00 was called the Rat Patrol, (very) loosely based on the British Long-Range Desert Group.
thx
the answer is: only in videogames....real life? definitely NOT!
Simba's idea is why he is the people's champ!
yes
During WWII, my grandfather was a gunner on a Royal Navy Bangor class minesweeper. This method looks more fun on land hehe
US would use an assault breacher vehicle. A plow and breaching charges just sounds like fun.
The trenches tend to zigzag. A-10 strafes in a straight line. Apache is a better option for guns. HE rockets are even better for either platform against trenches.
For clearing minefields, you need precise fire and good IR sensors can be useful at certain times of day. Again, Apache over A-10.
Maybe some line charges mounted to aircraft hard points would be effective at clearing mines. Probably have to hover while firing which would make Apache a good option. 2 to 4 line charges could probably be carried. They could be slightly angled outwards to create a cleared wedge.
Alternatively, line charges fired straight forward in succession end to end by an aircraft could clear a deeper path in a short period of time.
@@stupidburp Or a regular ground-deployed MICLIC which is the US military’s preferred way to quickly clear a 100 m by 8 m path through a minefield.
The disadvantage of using a MICLIC on the ground is that it is exposed to fire for a long period of time. A helicopter carried line charge could greatly reduce the time of exposure and bring some firepower too to help suppress nearby ground forces.
They would probably deploy the AVLM MICLIC (armored vehicle launched, mine clearing line charge) on this. Absolutely devastating for a minefield.
True. I think it would be perfect for this scenario. And maybe the road would be in a better condition than after an A-10 airstrike.
The Russians were using their version of that system in urban warfare in some of the towns they hit early on. They'd send the rocket into a building and use the trailing charge to clear an avenue of attack. Not a great system for it.
@@TheCaptainbeefylog If I remember correctly, US Marines used MICLICs to clear a few streets from insurgents in Fallujah in ‘04 and those seem to have worked for them pretty well.
Ukrainians did this too in urban setting...
I think you can also put gun pods on the A-10 maybe get a bit larger spread.
A mine-clearing line charge would be much more effective and low cost.
I bet the overpressure from an air burst fuel air device would get 100 percent of the mines in the affected area with little need for accuracy, and less tendency to dig holes in the ground
Thought I heard an A-10 sonic boom……..oh wait 💥 LOL
Great video! Please do more Ukraine videos!
Yea, more Ukraine videos please. There’s lots happening there right now and it would be great to do a bunch of missions there. Whether it’s the S-400 destruction, Kerch bridge destruction or anything else, please please please more Crimea and Ukraine action.
Ukraine-Russia Series:
A-10 Clear Minefields: ruclips.net/video/AhcnXiJdS1I/видео.html
US-Supplied Cluster Bombs: ruclips.net/video/W4aRf9l5vGQ/видео.html
F/A-18 Hornet vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/nRrmU1upBqk/видео.html
F-16A MLU vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/FHxPMz5MhdI/видео.html
Patriot vs KH-47M" Kinzhal: ruclips.net/video/C-q1tWlLh0I/видео.html
Eurofighter vs Su-57: ruclips.net/video/OnKuV6259ck/видео.html
MALD, Storm Shadow & AARGM-ER: ruclips.net/video/d6p0YY_VQZY/видео.html
Storm Shadow vs Russian SAMs: ruclips.net/video/5wJPbBAj0WM/видео.html
Iskander vs Various SAMS: ruclips.net/video/KxxahORODBA/видео.html
HIMARS vs Russian SHORADs: ruclips.net/video/DI6yIt0goPA/видео.html
Storm Shadow vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/UsHa9Fe29gI/видео.html
Rapid Dragon vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/rvUTl6xjxqY/видео.html
Ukraine With JDAM-ER: ruclips.net/video/deWnN1319Xw/видео.html
UK Typhoons vs Su-57: ruclips.net/video/OnKuV6259ck/видео.html
F-22 Raptors vs Russia President: ruclips.net/video/Fcmt2kdebvI/видео.html
Air Force One vs Russia: ruclips.net/video/IDVULTyzcEw/видео.html
AGM-179 JAGM vs 2S38 & T-90: ruclips.net/video/6-f8GJzxg5E/видео.html
SEAD & ATACMS vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/HJ0MgwXydyY/видео.html
IMP US Strike vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/xSUAiTVwI6o/видео.html
HIMARS ATACMS vs Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/uU_SPj0HQgo/видео.html
Sa-11 Buk Firing Sea Sparrow: ruclips.net/video/uBoryuBHfBQ/видео.html
US Strike vs Black Sea Fleet: ruclips.net/video/KMwYjJghQiA/видео.html
Rus SEAD vs Modernized Patriot: ruclips.net/video/FdoyfKgaONE/видео.html
Rus Bombers vs Modernized Patriot: ruclips.net/video/4Y961tLNE18/видео.html
JDAM vs S-400 Network: ruclips.net/video/wP4sfDG-01E/видео.html
Kinzhal vs Pac-3 & IRIS-T: ruclips.net/video/i0GzbajI0mU/видео.html
F16 or Gripen for Ukraine?: ruclips.net/video/Y-k71nfap4Q/видео.html
Mig-31 vs NATO Black Sea AWACS: ruclips.net/video/vFOzjW25ItI/видео.html
R-37M Long Range Shootdown: ruclips.net/video/-3LKGL4w9Q4/видео.html
Drone Swarm vs NATO Defense: ruclips.net/video/wDBOSd9qCDs/видео.html
Patrio PAC-3/IRIS-T vs Missiles: ruclips.net/video/N5Z81iW8YNY/видео.html
MANPAD/IRIS-T vs Russian Missiles: ruclips.net/video/N9R9GUVcTyk/видео.html
AGM-158C LRASM vs Sevastopol: ruclips.net/video/GDZoDRhIIRw/видео.html
A-10s Operating in S-400 Nets: ruclips.net/video/5BwFlesg42o/видео.html
Modernized Su-27 vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/7llLDzeT2Bs/видео.html
Modernized F15/F16 vs Su-35: ruclips.net/video/-TozTHbAXVs/видео.html
Can Su-57 Defend Russia From F-22/35: ruclips.net/video/E-oC3NgxC94/видео.html
IMPROVED Stealth vs Russian Bombers: ruclips.net/video/IgwLW4YKvVU/видео.html
Ukraine Using Hellfire Missile?: ruclips.net/video/s_1YHDTmPPw/видео.html
US Harpoons vs Russian Navy: ruclips.net/video/Oiee83CWRcE/видео.html
Ukraine Using APKWS?: ruclips.net/video/FBxV9YuAfaw/видео.html
Ukraine US HARMs vs Russian S-400: ruclips.net/video/eSyEOXsjWo8/видео.html
Patriot/NASAMS vs Supersonic Missiles: ruclips.net/video/i1q7uDeinA4/видео.html
Fulcrum/Flanker vs Foxbat/Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/BhXfxc94JAU/видео.html
NASAMS vs Russian Cruise Missiles: ruclips.net/video/pJI_b95jzpk/видео.html
Russian KH-47M2 vs Polish Air Force: ruclips.net/video/cnrVxqL5q9w/видео.html
Su-27 & Drone vs Snake Island: ruclips.net/video/T_oRoU2Ayfo/видео.html
Su-25s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/ryV65bUJzrw/видео.html
NATO Eurofighters vs Crimean AWACS: ruclips.net/video/EiJ2dFRh95g/видео.html
Patriot, Gepard & Gripen vs KH-65: ruclips.net/video/ZhxdrNjig1g/видео.html
A-10s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/B0tZoo0uLh4/видео.html
USN Tomahawk Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/0vpi8xBygV8/видео.html
USAF Stealth Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/IJbf9Bcxnw0/видео.html
Ukrainian Jets Strike Kerch Bridge: ruclips.net/video/I8FumuZReB4/видео.html
F-22 Raptors vs Russian Fighters: ruclips.net/video/ComRcmrwJWk/видео.html
Raptor/Eagle vs Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/keqYmuSEo-8/видео.html
USAF Bombers vs Mariupol Defenses: ruclips.net/video/aCsboOG0QU4/видео.html
Ukraine Bombs Snake Island: ruclips.net/video/BX696MKdkb8/видео.html
Stealth Fighters vs Russian Bombers: ruclips.net/video/rym90jnQDsA/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #3: ruclips.net/video/NIjoyIieOzY/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #2: ruclips.net/video/snjfbj_EwW4/видео.html
Sinking Of Moskva #1: ruclips.net/video/Bxwh6MGLJNc/видео.html
Russia Nukes Britain: ruclips.net/video/rzk45RFQwA8/видео.html
Ukraine Uses Danish F-16s: ruclips.net/video/17Pikrp0QaY/видео.html
Ukraine Uses Polish Mig-29s: ruclips.net/video/zCi4tAIzuOU/видео.html
Russian-Britain Missile Attack: ruclips.net/video/zwIGfabvzHA/видео.html
Ghost Of Kyiv: ruclips.net/video/Yrct8V4n1-U/видео.html
Belgorod Raid: ruclips.net/video/mQykTxt6ftw/видео.html
Eurofighter/Fulcrum vs Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/MPyIipEhgR0/видео.html
US Strike vs Odessa ruclips.net/video/KeiOHgzic6Y/видео.html
Russian Helo Rocket Lob: ruclips.net/video/118GgGnP_sM/видео.html
Russian Su-25 vs US Patriot SAM: ruclips.net/video/asp69ZD_tO0/видео.html
Understanding Russian SAMs: ruclips.net/video/R4xTxLNZXcw/видео.html
Ukrainian Jets Road Operations: ruclips.net/video/hBpzQhinPbw/видео.html
Russian 40 Mile Convoy: ruclips.net/video/Vr_-2FLblBk/видео.html
Flanker vs Super Flanker: ruclips.net/video/VOAuOFLJGk4/видео.html
Wow! Ok….that was bad ass! I love A-10s!
Wouldnt 30mm practice ammo work aswell? Would be the cheapest and most sustainable plus least dangerous method.
The fields must be a mess if he best option is to obliterate the road 😂
as an achitecture student i want to know how are those cable poles were made of
Russian steel LOL
could you do the same mission using the ov-10 Bronco?
I was thinking this when it was first announced Ukraine would be getting the cluster munitions. But just to have thorough science...everyone grab your favorite artillery piece (HIMARS, M777, Self Propelled Howitzers, etc.) and try with cluster munitions again. Also if guns worked so well can we try with aircraft Ukraine is more likely to get their hands on? Like a Bronco or Pucara?
Road is pretty simple, a field would be interesting
Doubt that, it will be effective.
Explosives are hard to detonate with external stuff (by design). I don't know about disabling the fuse
Cbu’s imo would be tooo light
So that’s the road knackered then - so the Challies go cross country and run into more mines (getting shelled by Ivan arty all the while).
Hmm…
Another idea worth trying: a fuel-air ordinance munition
Interesting idea.
I read in a book they tried using the A-10s gun to ignite and burn the oil filled trenches the Iraqis had dug to stop the allied advances. They fired a lot of rounds but only managed to start a few small fires that quickly went out. The crude oil was just too thick to ignite properly.
If you want to burn out oil you (if US) call for immediate smoke from Artillery. That mission uses white phosphorus shells.. which burns and keeps burning rather nicely.
@@duanesamuelson2256 Very true about WP ability to ignite and sustain combustion, but I think the trenches were beyond artillery range and narrow so arty would have a hard time hitting them.
I know the book you are talking about, A-10 Warthog in the Persian Gulf. I believe they were saying that the oil encapsulated the WP if the bullet went into the trench of oil. LOVE that book.
@@CoreyErnst Yep, great book!
I think that oil needs to be atomized before it will burn?
I thought the mine clearing aircraft you'd go crash land your planes 😂 do one with belly land and another one a 90° dive
Oh I remember the "rat patrol" show !
rgr
More combined forces war games please...
How about using the JP233 anti runway dispensers?
I know from experience that you can't detonate mines by shooting them. Don't ask......
thx
Not sure saturation of fields with DPU rounds will be the best thing for farm land
I had been wondering about how to deal with smaller, anti-personnel mines in fields. How big would the munition need to be?
I'm thinking of some high-rate grenade launcher. The larger AT mines are far easier to find with Mark-1 eyeball.
Looking at the wiki page for the US Army M58 MICLIC (mine clearing line charge) says that 5lbs(2.27kg) of C4 per foot(30cm) will clear a path ~26ft wide (8m).
Which by my math is about 1kg of C4 per square meter (a suspiciously clean ratio, I'd wager the actual number needed is lower, and it was rounded up to be on the safe side).
@@brandonwestfall3241Roger that.
Only video I saw of actually on the ground there were like 7 mines visible in maybe 1m square. So I don't think more than 2KB would be required.
I don't know .. can you say? what's relative explosive power of that much C4 compared to M19 round. (Seems that only SA has 20mm.)
_Addendum: _*_Oh,_* M61 Vulcan is 20mm. Also M197, again 20mm.
Effective to use gatling?
_Add:_ I found some numbers for *relative effectiveness values:*
Nitrocellulose:1.10
C4: 1.34
Nitroglycerin: 1.5
Mine flail or drag a heavy chain through the brush. It will trigger the sensitive sensors on the mines.
@@zilfondel Chain dragging would probably only set off AP mines, AT mines would probably not go off, unless you're using a comically large chain. A quick wiki search says average AT mines need more than 100kg of weight to go off.
Clearing the mines with the GAU-8 . . .
I think the driver of the lead tank might have pooped a little bit.
Does DCS have a fuel/air type ordnance modeled, those were used for mine sweeping in Vietnam.
Sadly not, no napalm in DCS yet.
If the airspace is permissive enough for an A-10 (which Ukraine's certainly isn't), it would also be permissive enough for an AC-130 - and those have far more surgical accuracy, loitering time and much greater firepower available. If the Ukrainians could do this, they would have already done it with the SU-25, which at least has the proverbial saving grace of better thrust.
And if they want to use cluster munitions, they might as well just use artillery cluster munitions.
Tbh it's a waste of a sortie for fixed wing aircraft. Not worth the flight hours or the risk. For rotory wing though it would make a lot more sense. The real problem is that there isn't a map that shows where the mines are or how many of them there are and you can't just shoot every inch of road.
@@92HazelMochaYou can use cluster munitions, but even that won't help with certain fuses which rely on magnetic fields.
-sir there are mines on the road!
-then erase the road
Try A10 but belly landing, no landing gear
Nice - now could a Thud or Phantom fly LOW (10 ft) in burner and detonate the mines?
the deliberate "poking " of the mines using the aircraft was so stupid it caused me to laugh.
well done in keeping it "fun".
The CBUs would add their own clearance issues due to the inherent failure rate of the submunitions.
Personally I'd be in favour of using an IFV with a 30mm cannon at the head of the column to blast a way through. The MBT doesn't have to sit around stationary and therefore more vulnerable whilst it awaits the arrival of the A-10.
Russian commander: We killed three AIRCRAFT with antitank mines?
If you do it again try to use low-drag bombs.
Would I be correct in saying that sappers use fuel-air explosives to clear minefields?
That was almost as much carnage - and fun - as your bit with B1s dropping loooong sticks on Russian armored convoy from a similar altitude.
Can you imagine sitting in the forward tank watching all these GAU-8 rounds coming in low from behind you ... and devastating the road in front of you. We never see segments showing thousands of these exploding 30mm rounds hitting a hard road surface. That was great.
Can you try this again clearing a path in a minefield? How about put them in an S300s and manpad environment ..based at a distance. Let's assume these minefields fields are still pretty far from the Russian lines of defense, so I suspect a low approach would work, no?
C130 gunship would be the way to go I think
yeah would get shot down in heavy contested airspace like ukraine in an instant
@@jetfighter200 So would the A-10.
@@jetfighter200the airspace wouldn't be heavily contested the week after we entered the fight.
“Obviously hidden in real life…”. Not really. Normally the purpose of the minefield isn’t to cause damage, but is actually to convince the enemy to go somewhere that you have prepared to kill them. Hiding the mines actually works against you.
I have to admit I was expecting a few tanks to get hit. 😈
Could the shock wave of a hypersonic aircraft produce enough energy to explode the munitions?
Has anyone made models for the smart mines currently in use (German AD2 on the Ukrainian side and PTKM-1R on the Russian side)? Those only have to be within 50 meters of the road in order to target a vehicle on the road.
Renaming my A-10 to the Princess Diana-10. She would have loved these aircraft clearing mines. Probably would have had her Wills and that minge(Harry) flying one
Clear the road......... What road.....?????????/ Theres nothing left.... Should have dropped a Daisy Cutter for good measure...
EOD dream vehicle!
The co-ax MG on the tanks may work....
The problem with the cluster bombs is some munitions won't detonate leaving a bunch of new mines along the road and the fields nearby. In fact, up to 1/3 of the submunitions won't explode on impact. Meaning you've actually scattered more unexploded ordinance in that area than there was to begin with.
13:55 probably to much spread?
yes
I would imagine that the cannon fire would be the most cost-effective at disposing the mines...
I think it would be really difficult to hit a mine with a 120 mm HE or HEAT round because the high angle at with the rounds would need to impact would create a high risk of ricochets and duds. Maybe a canister round, like the M1028, would be a good option…
Edit: Since those were Challenger 2s, maybe HESH (HEP) rounds would do well…
Without watching the video, I can tell you: nope. It's why armored mine clearing vehicles have detcord that is launched, and mine plows designed to have adjustable and adaptable heights intended to overturn mines (which basically renders them useless since they are shaped/directed charges).
An A10 will not be successful in clearing a path. Moreover, they are not designed to fly in contested airspace...
All great points!
cluster bombs would be for a real minefield, for one done on a road, I think the gun or other bombs would be better
RUclips's algorithm is serving me up videos on the USAF's apparent re-attempt to retire the Warthogs and use F-35A's for CAS purposes. Maybe you might want to see, within DCS at least, how much more/less effective the F-35 is in various CAS functions?
I assume that the A-10 has advantages in terms of loiter time and loadouts, while F-35's have the advantage of better target identification tech and not having "old plane" maintenance issues. It might be interesting to do tests in various CAS scenarios, with different potential adversaries (think Taliban vs Russia/China).
I believe GR has already done it but the scenario they did it in heavily favored the A-10 (uncontested airspace with minimal manpads)
They use flying explosives to make lanes. I think there 200 300 meters long 5 to 8 meters wide. I think they been doing it for decades, I don't remember if that's what they where using in desert storm, I was on ship. It's a rocket with a line of explosives connected.. Maybe it was more a 100 to 150 meters, I'm old and that was a long life ago.. 👍👍👍
Yep that is the desert storm one! Very usefull equipment
Gentlemen, let's plough the road!
I wonder about using something Ukraine does have....Mig29 or SU-25?
Yeh I just wanted an excuse to use the A10 gun TBH...