Apparently the British and Germans have built the longest amphibious bridge at 350 metres. Pretty fucking nato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vLr1n6Jco
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/06/09/anakonda-germans-and-brits-build-bridge-using-amphib-vehicles/85638400/
>>30247209
They know that boats exist, right?
>>30247220
I don't think moving a cavalry brigade across a river in boats is very efficient.
>>30247220
I don't think you understand bridges and why they're used instead of boats
>WARSAW, Poland — Only Germany and the United Kingdom are known to have the ability to build a bridge over water using amphibious vehicles
Really? I'd have thought way more nations would have this capability.
>>30247220
They are boats.
They are just boats with ramps.
You walked into the office and said, we need to get this tank across the river with boat.
Then someone said what if we add a ramp to the boat.
Then a few months later you've got boat ramps from England to France.
>>30248690
Euro countries mostly have an extremely shitty defence force military.
>>30248996
It didn't say "Euro countries"
>>30248690
Probably meant "within NATO".
Maybe meant the fact that the Brits and Krauts use the same vehicle so, uh,... mating... the uh, bridge parts, is easier.
>>30247220
Yes, boats exist, but people build bridges anyway.
>>30247209
finally they can give Britannia those refugee
>>30248690
maybe because you need several of these extremely niche amphibious vehicles to build a bridge with them, it's a lot of cost and personell just incase you need a bridge
many countries have these vehicles and transport other vehicles across rivers with them, they just aren't building bridges with them
>>30247209
>Camo tarp on those Stryker MGSs.
They started training like this because they failed spectacularly at Strong Europe when it came to the camo section, right?
>>30247209
The Brits were innovators in this field. In Malaysia, there are WWII era Bailey bridges (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_bridge) still standing despite originally being temporary structures.
>>30253433
WW2 British combat engineering was God tier desu.
Mulberry harbours, Hobart's funnies, bailey bridges. Hell, a fuckload of the stuff Brit PoWs built as Japanese slave labour is still going strong.
>>30253433
We have some in Ontario too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Finch_Avenue_Bailey_Bridge
Canada has them as well. its called an MR or medium raft. it is a reverse engineered design of the Russian PMP steel floating fold-bridge.
>>30253433
>>30253447
Oh shit.
There's something really oddly satisfying about people dealing with natural barriers with simple, modular engineering.
>>30247209
Whilst I'd like to jump up and down with pride at this feat of Brit engineering, there are a couple of things I'd take issue with.
The first is that pontoon bridges are modular, which means building a long one isn't any harder than building a short one. It's not like a suspension bridge where past a certain length you have to factor in the curvature of the earth to get the piers at the right angle, you just have to tell each raft to go and float in front of the last one.
The other thing is that while builing a 350m long bridge could be seen as impressive, you could argue that a clever man would just plan things in such a way as to have his cavalry units cross the river somewhere that wasn't so wide.
>>30253447
>WW2 British combat engineering was God tier desu.
It still is. The British Army and Royal Marines have a fuckhuge combat engineering component filled with all sorts of inventive shit, they never really lost it, and it's one of their most advanced portions.
If you ever have a look on Think Defence, that guys does frankly ridiculously detailed writeups on it all, and his twitter feed is drowning in combat engineering images and facts.
But yes, British WW2 combat engineering was outstanding, if only because so much of it was entirely new back then. There was so much innovation.
>>30247209
Wow congrats Euros.
You floated a collection of metal planks that is 17 meters longer than a Nimitz.
>what if we lined up 2 Nimitizes?
Hmmm....do we have 2?
>we have 10
Oh yeah LOL
>And a Ford floating
LOL
mfw USN can make a 3667 meter floating bridge out of just supercarriers.
This is actually pretty cool. The exercise looks like a lot of fun too. Pretty cool from a logistic standpoint.
nigger please
>>30247209
Cool. Unnecessary if your vehicles can swim though.
>>30247220
it is a boat
>>30247209
Fucking peacetime mate. Man needs war or this shit happens.
>>30253675
American dick measuring when?
>>30253570
>you have to factor in the curvature of the earth
>2016
>Still believing the Earth is curved
>>30252782
Probably lost most of the conventional fighting skills with the end of the Cold War.
Look at how much the Russians atrophied between the fall of the USSR and Chechnya.
>>30253015
all that cammo
Its like she's all dolled up for war.
best part is you get to strip her down when its time for "cleaning and maintenance"
>>30253675
Good luck getting a nimitz sideways in a 10m deep river you fat cunt
>>30254856
Oh, we could get it there. Getting it back out might be slightly more problematic.
That's actually pretty cool, why doesn't the US Army have those?
