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The Great Freeze Is Going to Stop Any Decisive Military Move in Ukraine
There's been an update from US intelligence officer who said that the fighting in Ukraine has fallen to a reduced tempo. What the Great Freeze is going to do for one of the state and the blinding the obvious is going to freeze the ground. Once you get more than about a foot of hard frost, then tanks and other heavy vehicles can crumble across that quite happily. It all comes down to ground pressure, and if you divide the weight of the vehicle by the footprint on the ground, which is tanks,. You have the whole length of both tracks, which is a much bigger distance than the footprint of wheels. So tanks can get across much worse ground, boggy ground, muddy ground than wheels
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