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ERR reports the Baltic defense line project is already reshaping the southeast frontier.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/16/estonia-is-digging-a-40-km-trench-to-stop-russian-tanks-and-600-bunkers-are-next/
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Maginot line in 2025.
Latvia better watch out …
Is the perspective making them look small or will something like that actually stop a tank?
That’s a stock photo of an irrigation or utility trench, I suspect - it wouldn’t stop a 4x4, let alone a tank.
Thank you lmao. I saw the article a few times and had to ask because I was very sure that wouldn’t stop a tank but I didn’t want to be the dipshit assuming they know better than civil engineers.
Whoops, I was curious - turns out the estonian LEO dug them (military police/border guard, not sure of distinction) but they’re anti-migrant ditches, not anti-tank ditches. From the source article:
Yeah, your first impulse was right on the money with this one.
Here’s what they probably used to dig it, you see things like this being used all the time in agri-heavy areas.
spoiler

Rule of thumb, if it has two sloped sides it’s not going to stop an armored vehicle.
A tank driving on it will have issues. But this is easily overcome by itself.
This is just one small part of new emplacements. But even multiple layers are only expected to slow an advance
Pffft. Just hit that ramp at max speed and get some air time brah
Weren’t tanks invented, literally, to combat/bypass trenches?
Depends on the size of the trench.
Yeah, Putin does seem like a size queen.




