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War Is Boring: Military Exercises Are Tearing Up Russia’s Infrastructure
When 500+ armored vehicles hit the road, watch out
Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin has been racing to bolster the Russian military’s fighting abilities with frequent, large-scale exercises near his country’s western borders. But one recent story from Glavny, which covers western Russia, indicates that the exercises are taking a toll on infrastructure and local governments which are swarmed by armored vehicles.
In recent days, 574 vehicles of the crack 74th Guards Air Assault Division set off at night from its base at Pskov near the Estonian border for a training site at Strugi Krasnye some 40 miles to the northeast. The lumbering convoy headed up a cracked, pitted, asphalt-covered federal highway, tearing up the road and inflicting more than half-a-million dollars in damage.
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WNU editor: This is one of my pet peeves when I am saying in Moscow .... and one that I have voiced more than once in this blog. These military exercises are a sight to see .... but the damage that the tank tracks inflict on the roads .... and the time it takes for the city crews to repair these roads .... makes me wonder if it is all worth it. And yes .... my car has been more than once damaged by flying asphalt after a parade because the idiot in front of me (usually in his cheap but admittedly indestructible 25 year old Lada) thinks it's cool to spin his wheels on broken pavement while my German car is behind him. Grrrr ....
