Ukrainian soldiers sabotage a railroad track behind enemy lines before successfully withdrawing, Korenevo village in Kursk Oblast



by operatorham

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  3. Surprised they didn’t go after the bridge that’s shown.

  4. Would that be enough to derail a train though? Might just sail over that gap and carry on like it didn’t happen.

  5. You think this could be done with a drone when you see them taking out Russian tanks with them

  6. 🥚cellent. Keep up the great work, Ukraine!👍🇺🇦🏆

  9. There is a bridge not far down the track.. seems it would have made a better target logistically/tactically.

  10. Okay… This is my moment.

    I weirdly know a lot about this, as three generations of my family have worked on a the rails, though I don’t, but I’ve gone deep on this over the years.

    Trains are incredibly resilient to derailing, but the details matter enormously, as the weight, angles, and size of the space in the track are night and day important. Trains have so many big numbers involved that peoples intuitions are wrong. Heavy things don’t behave like the things humans usually deal with. This is why people underestimate how long a train takes to stop. The behaviour of things that weigh a bazillion pounds aren’t easily grasped. Trains can ride just fine over huge gaps in rails.

    An exception is turns. Outside rails in turns are where you hit to derail a train. I don’t know why they are where they are in this video, but they’ve definitely spent more time thinking about this than I have, so who knows why they’re doing it here. Also, the plant growth on the track tells me this isn’t in constant use. I don’t know why not, or what it means, but you don’t get that type of plant life on tracks that have trains running regularly.

    At a glance, it is unlikely this will cause a derailment, and it’sunlikely this track is important to anyone at the moment. Though, it will require a crew to go out and repair it before it’s used again. Unfortunately for UKR, repairing this type of damage is trivial, *under normal conditions*, but fortunately for UKR, these aren’t normal conditions. Under conditions like this, where drones and artillery are waiting to pounce, this could be a hassle, assuming ISR at the location.

    Rail was one of the earliest industrial “things”, so the techniques and infrastructure you need to repair rail are tuned up perfectly. If a track is broken, a crew can go out and repair it in literally a few hours, if not minutes. There are two centuries of experience backing up a trained crew trying to repair rail. It’s easy, which is why you don’t see military power hitting random rail lines with bombs. It can be repaired incredibly quickly.

    Bridges are also well known for being overengineered and deceivingly hard to blow up, so this is a really interesting video. I wish we could see why they chose this straight length of track, instead of the bridge or a curve.

  11. REmove one rail section and no one will notice until it’s too late..

  12. Awesome! Should have blown that little bridge to the right of the explosions!! Would have been more of a headache to rebuild a bridge, then replace track!

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