"Russian Minefields" Topic

FIRST. Let's try to keep this to a discussion of strategies and tactics if possible.

The Russians are digging in behind minefields laid across the mouth to crimea, on the mainland side.

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Do Russians have command controlled minefields? (Obviously this is a geopolitical statement that they mean to stay since it's obvious that an attack by Ukraine would be a messy form of national suicide.) Are they just leaving transit lanes or can they turn on and off the minefields?

Do the Ukrainian have an engineering echelon capable of neutralizing said minefields?

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Not sure, but suspect they'd leave lanes accessible, if needed.

Sure, I guess they could have remote controlled mines, but something like a claymore seems more likely, if the didn't do the above.

I've heard rumors of Ukrainian military movements, but not much more than that.

Supposedly, as more and more Russians pour into Crimea, tensions are growing worse, and the civilians of both sides are getting more agitated.

Of course, as Putin has said there are no Russian troops in Crimea, so perhaps they are well organized terrorists who should be shot on sight, since they are not part of any national military force which would otherwise be protected by the Geneva Convention, and the rules of war.

I'd suspect a large array of conventional mines, with command-detonated ones in the "safe" lanes and probably a few close to the edges of the minefield to mess with attempts to sweep the major field.

The Russians have both command detonated mines (like the claymore) and other mines that can be laid and left inactive and relatively safe until they are armed.