Abstract
This article serves as a short preview to the history of roadblocks (road obstacles), and also as an outlook to modern and future technologies, and challenges they face in this particular field of science. At this moment, it is a real problem to stop the car immediately (if possible), before it causes damages, or threats any civil or military objects. It does not necessarily have to be only an accident, it can be a terrorist attack, which can cause enormous collateral damage and also life losses. The contemporary problem is not only the combat with fire explosive systems, but it is also important to focus on avoiding damaging of important devices, road objects or spots called “soft targets”. All this combined presents the essential challenge for roadblocks development.
Highlights
This article serves as a short preview to the history of roadblocks, and as an outlook to modern and future technologies, and challenges they face in this particular field of science
The roads were supplemented with numerous structures, bridges and viaducts, the formation line led in side-hill cuttings and trenches, and the roadbed comprised several layers
The layers, methods of construction and the width of the roads were prescribed by law
Summary
This article serves as a short preview to the history of roadblocks (road obstacles), and as an outlook to modern and future technologies, and challenges they face in this particular field of science. The need for movement of large military units across Europe led to the establishment of forces dealing with both the construction and the destruction of roads and bridges. Permanent fortifications and bastion forts proved to be inefficient (Franco–Prussian War in 1871), and armies were forced to increasingly manoeuvre, which could be prevented using suitably located obstacles mainly on roads.
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