Post AtCuTdi50Y5IOTPagy by ww3real@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AtCuTdi50Y5IOTPagy by ww3real@mastodon.social
       2025-04-18T05:00:00Z
       
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       Chinese troops being to arrive in Siberia at a rate of 150,000 a day, with plans for a new army group after the gaps in the South Ural Army Group's front are plugged.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtCuTepuotwjt45MXo by timbray@cosocial.ca
       2025-04-18T05:33:34Z
       
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       @ww3real How on earth do you move 150K/day humans into Siberia?
       
 (DIR) Post #AtCuTfy6bw5lOkvPwu by Alon@mastodon.social
       2025-04-18T05:51:45Z
       
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       @timbray @ww3real Trans-Siberian Railway. It's a double-track line and can carry more humans than that at reasonable passenger density. A division with 25,000 troops and ~1,000 heavy military vehicles is something like 20 passenger trains (or fewer if you couple them together - it's not as if you need to worry about intermediate platforms) and 10 freight trains (figure 36 t/tank, and average RZhD train weight of 4,000 t).
       
 (DIR) Post #AtCuTgg3yVFnb5UWSu by pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
       2025-04-18T06:37:27.592899Z
       
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       @Alon @timbray @ww3real I remember reading an article about the ww2 train operations which claimed that Germans could often only get less than ten trains a day on the occupied eastern lines and that the Soviets basically ignored everything and just operated long heavy trains at sight, so the trips were long but it was more like a conveyor belt affording high capacity comparatively (I don’t have sources tho, there’s a book on the German logistics I may be able to find)