“The dragon’s teeth are not totally impassable, but they are a good distraction,” Miron said.
Dragon’s teeth are not complicated defenses to remove, but the problem comes when engineers dealing with them are under observed direct and indirect fire, Frederik Mertens, a strategic analyst with the Hague Center for Security Studies, told Newsweek.
It’s a cost vs benefit calculation. They don’t have to be an impossible target. They just have to be enough of an inconvenience for the enemy to give your side an advantage.