Kashluk wrote:Superhaze wrote:You have sufficient amounts of land-mines to stop a large scale infantry assault.
Not for long. The wankers signed the Ottawa treaty that bans anti-infantry landmines.
I don't really understand how we're supposed to guard a borderline so long without land mines. I guess if the whole population (5.2 mil) stood in one line at the 1300 km long border, we could have, um.. 4 people per every meter? 2 adults, 1 elderly and 1 kid, maybe? The post-modern Finnish assault unit? Hi-tech & hi-five
Assault Penguins?
Cyberize them and arm with suicide bombs and amphetamine/PCP auto- injectors for turbo speed-run into enemy concentrations.
They can hibernate in spider holes along the border.
Or just put mines on miniature ATVs and equip with chameleonic cloak.
Or:
Add a whole new decentralized man-portable backup military.
100,000 Personal Antiaircraft missiles
100,000 Personal Antitank guided missiles
50,000,000 RPGs (one third thermobaric) with automatic launchers giving an individual person an RPG fire-rate of one per second.
100,000 12.7mm or 14.5 mm AMAT/Sniper rifles with mega scopes
100,000 20mm or 23mm AMAT/sniper rifles as above
5,000 Predator Drones (or similar)
100,000 anti-helicopter mines
Various devices for cloud-seeding (make snow/etc.), smoke generators capable of fogging up huge areas, chaff/smart chaff rockets for creating radar-free zones (enough to fill the sky continuously for months/years- use parachutes/balloons fueled with thermite to dispense/hang in the air for a long time.)
All sorts of decoy transmitters, scarecrows, inflatable tanks, etc.
Plus millions of little sensors, especially sonar.
Plus tens of thousands of assorted robots. (many would be auto turrets for the above weapons)
Keep all that shit in EMP-shielded containers.
Stash enough food for a few years, and so on.
I estimate that with associated costs added in, this would cost $4000-$8000 USD per capita to set up over a 10 year period.
Festung Finland.
edit: maybe throw in attack-buses (miniature cruise missiles) and GPS-in-flight-correction artillery shells (substitute rocket for propellant to negate need for an artillery piece. One guy could drag these around on a sled.) Just add another $100 a year per capita.
