Timeline for Minimum force needed for an air strike against a wind farm?
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| Apr 27, 2021 at 19:56 | comment | added | Paul TIKI | @MontyHarder There ya go. that's what I was thinking of. If you can make it hard for them to work safely , you continue to deny the enemy the resource.... for everyone else, destroying the roads is something trivially easy to do that adds that much more time to recovery. After the raid, before they can get the windfarm online, Repair road, then control stuff, then the vanes, towers, and nacelles. Yeah, a lot could be done at the same time, but delivery to site HAS to depend on the road. | |
| Apr 27, 2021 at 16:36 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Two bombers acting in tandem on the road strikes. The first drops bombs on the roads to wreck them; the second drops cluster bombs with timers set to blow up at random for the next week. The repair crews can't even get in there until the bomb-disposal guys clean up. | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 18:44 | comment | added | John | roads are very easy to repair compared to making all the replacement parts, They could build a new road from scratch by the time they enough replacement blades. | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 13:34 | comment | added | Paul TIKI | A road can be replaced in a short period of time if they need to, but would it withstand the stresses of transporting heavy and delicate stuff long enough. Also, you can't airlift an 80 foot long windmill vane. It's not just a function of mass, but the surface area of something that large is going to make it act like a sail to even the slightest breeze. a huge risk for the aircraft and crew. | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 5:48 | comment | added | Trioxidane | I meant that they could replace all required infrastructure via the air. Bombing roads and bridges won't stop most militaries moving heavy resources if they really want to invest in it. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 0:42 | comment | added | Mark | A road can be replaced in a day or two by one person with a bulldozer. Sure, a modern paved multilane road takes a while to build, but in a combat situation, you just need something good enough for construction equipment to use. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | Paul TIKI | @Trioxidane OP didn't seem to want boots on the ground, They want an airstrike. It's in the question title. One major pass and done. Boots on the ground would be more thorough however they got there, but they require resources to keep operating and it is possible the windfarm is deep in enemy territory. Allies bombed the heck out of strategic targets in Germany long before ground troops got there. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 17:00 | comment | added | Trioxidane | What about helicopters putting down the resources and menpower when you hit the control center? Also why sidestep the whole question? | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 16:09 | history | answered | Paul TIKI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |