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Old October 21st, 2018, 01:33 AM
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Default Re: Mine clearing device PW-LWD

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Originally Posted by jp10 View Post
Most of the US Europe strategy during the Cold War was envisioned as a delaying/rear guard defence so most of the need to breach minefields/cross rivers quickly would be on the Warsaw Pact.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons we borrowed equipment from Israel and South Africa during Gulf I. It wasn't really until bout 2004 the US started to get any significant combat engineering capability.
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