The best targets for tactical nukes are bridges. It is very difficult to destroy a bridge with conventional artillery: Antonov’s bridge still stands as well as Crimea bridge. A tactical nuke with 0.1 −1 Kt range will completely destroy a bridge.
Other possible targets are bunkers and large factories.
The Crimea bridge wasn’t hit with any artillery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonivka_Road_Bridge suggest that artillery is capable of temporarily inhibiting the bridge likely at much cheaper prices. Being able to disable the bridge for a month is likely enough for many military applications as the bridge is valuable after you take the territory.
One needs to be near a bridge to use artillery and this still needs to be high precision strikes with expensive guided missiles, may be 100 of them were used agains Antonov’s bridge.
The best targets for tactical nukes are bridges. It is very difficult to destroy a bridge with conventional artillery: Antonov’s bridge still stands as well as Crimea bridge. A tactical nuke with 0.1 −1 Kt range will completely destroy a bridge.
Other possible targets are bunkers and large factories.
The Crimea bridge wasn’t hit with any artillery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonivka_Road_Bridge suggest that artillery is capable of temporarily inhibiting the bridge likely at much cheaper prices. Being able to disable the bridge for a month is likely enough for many military applications as the bridge is valuable after you take the territory.
One needs to be near a bridge to use artillery and this still needs to be high precision strikes with expensive guided missiles, may be 100 of them were used agains Antonov’s bridge.