Breaching operations just became more complex. Combat Engineers clear a lane then the enemy re-mines it via rockets...

 

MILITARY TECHNOLOGY RUSSIAN REMOTE MINING
The Russian remote mining vehicle ISDM Zemoedeliye with 50 122mm tubes has a range of 5-15 km and can quickly mine an area of several footballfields. Few in operation yet, but very useful.

Ukraine has used HIMARS recently for remote… pic.twitter.com/CxBtNpH43O

— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 13, 2023

With weapon systems like this, breaching operations have become much more complex. Imagine if you're a combat engineer. You swallow hard, do the incredibly hard thing of clearing a lane for your armored forces and then they re-mine the lane you just cut and to make matters worse its not to cut your off but to cut off your support?

So if you're lucky you continue on and hope that your fellow Sappers can get that NEW mine field cleared, that enemy arty doesn't zero in on your location (or attack helos or anti-tank teams or just some freak with an RPG that feels like playing Rambo) and that the assault can finally reach the breakthrough phase.

The Ukrainians are begging for F-16s but I'm thinking that what is probably needed on this new battlefield is A-10s to keep the anti-tank teams heads down and maybe kill some of the forward arty and B-1s/B-52s that can lob JDAMs from miles up at their leisure.