Russia's Turtle Tanks 🐢

Two weeks ago, we looked at a curious in-field adaptation carried out by a Russian unit operating near Krasnohorivka. A T-72 had been near totally enclosed by sheet metal to protect it from FPV drones. Various imagery showed the tank encased in a trapezoidal steel structure, giving the vehicle the look of a shed on tracks. Since then several other similar 'turtle' tanks have been seen in the field.
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[@TheArmourersBench]

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[@MusicAutomation]

This war keeps going further back in time. First, it looked a lot like WW2, then WW1 trench warfare, and now medieval era siege weapons.

[@calamity4392]

It's either a Gate breacher, or a Siege tower

[@zoverawizo7476]

And then knife fights

[@refi350]

You mean sword fights?​@@zoverawizo7476

[@naphackDT]

So that's what Einstein meant when he talked about WW4 being fought with sticks and stones.

[@fenrirgg]

Battering ram return.

[@danwest3825]

"Assault Garages" is brilliant

[@quartercast]

Assault Carriage?

[@bobbygoestoabyss6624]

I like Blyatmobile

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

@@bobbygoestoabyss6624 Yes, especially if you know a bit of Russian, it is hilarious. But assault garage is 2nd best. lol

[@user-ut6qk9iz8k]

In russian news channels it was called "Tsar grill"

[@Grom84]

it's very convenient to carry garage with yourself, not to mention you don't need to pay rent for it!

[@Knightmare919]

Remember boys you don't choose stug life, stug life chooses you.

[@adisura9904]

Ah a man of culture

[@grenadier2980]

Basically they made ghetto stugs.

[@emil7336]

What’s a stug?

[@cyacyi779]

​@@emil7336german tank in ww2. Just search it Stug III

[@Jay2Breezy-eh3lk]

@@emil7336a good tank

[@kentaylor2416]

It's a real spectacle when they come onto the beaches to lay their eggs.

[@youeatmytaco1374]

Bro 😂

[@johnnybooo6982]

Nice

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

You got this USN Veteran, Now Science Teacher ... Laughing!!

[@YozhikNagibator5162]

The 21st century warfare Expectations: drone AI killers, robots, soldiers in exoskeleton suits and flying soldiers with jetpacks Reality: turtle tank

[@vadimanreev4585]

A Russian folk saying: For every wise man, simplicity is enough

[@modulblok-e3168]

And shofels 😂

[@keonliller_2287]

​@@modulblok-e3168MPL-50 shovel has been the real gamechanger all the time

[@spyral00]

broke ass war... reality is always boring

[@Freedom_Half_Off]

I guess no one read the story about U.S. Marines tricking an AI sentry by walking up to it dressed as a cardboard box . At night thermals are also used extensively to spot targets and this alters that profile as well . Finally ... since the Estoinian soldier couldn't figure out on his channel what the chains hanging around the turret ring and underneath the front the were for ... those are weak points often targeted by by FPV pilots . Make fun of the addons all you like but covering weak points , causing premature ignition and off angle hits is paying dividends for the Russians you can see daily on the map .... When the Filipinos were using aluminum hulled M113s more recently to engage separatist in urban fighting they strapped wood planks and multiple layers of cardboard on for more protection from RPG rounds . The separatist lost that fight ...

[@bestopinion9257]

In mother Russia you drive the vehicle and the garage in the same time.

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

and the trash bin

[@NandiCollector]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@784563]

As my Australian friend said, "if it works it works"

[@dannmarceau9743]

😆

[@dreykush9554]

According to my Russian friends, they would agree saying Da!🤣🤣

[@Spookyfam]

"Ferdinand" is such a tongue in cheek humorous name. Referring to the Ferdinand Tank destroyer of WW2.

[@MattSF23]

not Ferdinand the Bull? 🤔

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@MattSF23 it looks vaguely similar to the tank destroyer, also has limited gun traverse like the tank destroyer

[@333_studios]

That German one whose engine kept bursting into flames after trying to climb a tiny hill?

[@silveresquire]

My favorite tank in warthunder

[@Kaarna5]

@@silveresquire Warthunder is trash

[@CountYulith]

The curtain of chains over the opening is actually pretty brilliant. That would definitely stop drones from flying in, without obstructing the visibility too much.

[@rrai1999]

If that thing detonates, chains are not going to save you..

[@darkstonefire2530]

Chains are somewhat similar to some Merkavas?

[@gabrielc4136]

​@@rrai1999 they might, there's a reason for them being there

[@kevinfernandez6532]

The Tesla Cyber Tank is here.

[@decus9544]

It even comes pre-rusted so you don't have to wait for a couple of days of light rain to do it.

[@TornadoCAN99]

So the counter measure against it will be Ukraine offering free car washes?

[@ASH9366]

It's a trend setter for other countries 🔥👷🔥

[@frogturtle]

looks better than the truck!

[@falcone5287]

Powered by electricity)

[@user-os5uk5nc4z]

finally the first tank that I can model in a 3D editor and that will not reduce FPS.

[@TheNefastor]

It's got that Minecraft geometry :D

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

Ps1 tank

[@voxelamateur]

low-poly vehicles appear more futuristic

[@TheNefastor]

@@voxelamateur yeah like the Cybertruck 😜

[@RatDad69]

Want to like can't... 420 likes

[@NeonKnight777]

Welcome back, A7V😊

[@atomf9143]

Underrated comment.

[@Marcuscrixus]

This. I was literally just about to post this! Ohhh it really is starting to look like WWI, sharpen the shovels boys!

[@karlmonet]

Exactly what I thought of. At 1:45 it looks like Germany's first tank in WW1!

[@scottmorley7738]

The only difference being the A7V had good visibility on the battlefield 😂

[@Amplar2]

designing tanks in england: in a shed designing tanks in russia: take the shed with you

[@christianbliss8944]

A tank with a hippy bead curtain over the entrance - now I've seen everything...

[@MangaGamify]

Some beads were pulled out fresh from up there

[@WingsOfADream1]

hanging chain armor is super commonplace...

[@uncle7162]

It is sorta ingenious. Looks stupid but well I see how it’d stop it I’m sure I remember the soviets doing something like that with metal bed frames to stop shaped charges and anti tank missiles

[@D-Z321]

It’s there to prevent drones from flying into the turret….

[@user-tj4ly8yk1f]

Open your mind, man... 🌠🚬

[@haroldb1856]

The design of this modification is not yet mature. It is kind of a teenage mutant turtle tank.

[@eliannafreely5725]

My hat to you, sir.

[@vanjamenadzer]

But, but, the T-72 are already senior tanks.

[@AdeWhite]

@@vanjamenadzer turtles man... they're old 😊

[@anchorread68]

I think it should morph to a variety of shape to throw off automated intel gathering. For example, painting a ship in a way that it look shorter in satellite view.

[@zacherysaucier6747]

@@anchorread68 so when do they get Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtle Tanks is the real question

[@user-ii2ck7to3d]

As practice has shown, war is not an exercise where everyone in polished helmets, ironed uniforms and super expensive and technologically advanced tanks and equipment perform combat missions with a virtual enemy. War is dirt, a mess of everything, revealing all the problems and shortcomings at once, a constant shortage of everything. Therefore, when you see how a country demonstrates its strength, conducts its exercises for show, most likely, in reality they will all be ground into dust in the first weeks, until their command and those who survived understand how to fight. And sometimes an old tank can be more effective than a super-technological one (which will stall in the first puddle), and a cheap drone can be more effective than super-expensive missiles

[@Vadik122]

Так и есть никакие аналитики не смогли увидеть что современная война будет выглядеть так

[@imchris5000]

this also protects very well vs atgms causing the missile to explode before it even reaches the real tank armor

[@dranoelarios4788]

Spaced armour has been around a while

[@dangersnail5839]

Yes, but only for single warhead weapons. But both Russia and Ukraine have almost fully phased those out. With Ukraines NLAWS and Javelins both being tandem warheads. As well as a vast majority of all their other RPGs and ATGMs.

[@imchris5000]

@@dangersnail5839 this detonates the penetration charge of the tandem wardhead making the 2nd charge explode against fully intact tank armor its a very effective counter to tandem warheads. the usa even used this tech against rpgs in the middle east but it was just cages on the sides of vehicles instead of full coverage

[@Jartran72]

I seriously doubt that. I would need to see multiple videos profing just that.

[@ThePerson-dg6bq]

@@dangersnail5839 This would trigger the first tandem charge to detonate against the tutel, and the 2nd against the ERA, remember that this would require an additional third tandem charge to actually go through the hull, if (which is very, very probable) the atgm strikes ERA.

[@afx88lexx]

Actually this is exactly what “A-team” would do

[@TheArmourersBench]

I can hear the montage music now.

[@afx88lexx]

Me too:) usually after it start to play in my head it lasts for about week.

[@bikechainmic]

@@TheArmourersBench I just hear the Benny Hill theme!

[@JoeBlow-wr5em]

Russia-"I love it when a plan comes together "

[@krispypriest5116]

Now I can here the montage music too!!! Thanks for the LOL.

[@wolfsmaul-ger8318]

never in my life would i have expected to witness WW1 esque field craft development

[@organickevinlondon]

it really does look like a WW1 German A7V tank.

[@SantidelasNieves]

Alguna cosas nunca cambian. Este es un ariete moderno

[@wolfsmaul-ger8318]

@@SantidelasNieves cierto. los problemas modernos requieren soluciones antiguas

[@vadimanreev4585]

Verás en qué lucharon los grupos de asalto en la primera guerra mundial: mazas caseras, espadas, etc.

[@tnmrvc]

I mean, what it mostly shows is how if you're only doing something in a pinch, with a couple of guys at most and some tools, it aint gonna have complex shapes and a lot of integration or streamlining, things will look boxy and use basic shapes. That's what seperates us from those people a hundred years ago or even older civs going back thousands of years, think of ancient war machines etc. It takes a big company and engineering department and a huge team effort to come up with all these fancy designs, but then when shit hits the fan and there's a need to improvise, things tend to look this way. Btw, a T-72 is still an incredibly complex and sophistacted machine in every regard if you think about it, and even that doesn't suffice against a 1kg bomb strapped to a drone! Also interesting to point out that during ww1, they had like crews of 8 or more, and a lot of machine gun positions, so that requirement in itself caused them to be boxy and large.

[@user-vx8fk9pc4z]

Everyone thought modern warfare was going to look like robots n lasers but it's actually just t80 sheet metal turtles

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

at least from the Vodka perspective....I mean Ruzzia.....

[@user-lg2on3tg3c]

Inside is a modern tank

[@nickolayyegorov4755]

T72, but with electronic warfare.

[@rogue5738]

For veterans of comments. As that guy described it is shelter against fpv drones. Outside of computer games world requires you to find balance between cost and effectiveness so this is one of the best options for ANY army

[@jackshadowsh1991]

Maaaan, why do you have to ruin all these kids realities? They are clearly better military experts than these russians who fought a full scale war for the last 2 years...

[@SuperTechnikfreaky]

In munich, this garage would be 900€ per month :D

[@PolPot-ef1qq]

Cheap, that's 1327.41 CDN and you'd expect to pay 2000 a month in a city of the same size in Canada like Edmonton. I always thought München and everywhere else in Europe was expensive.

[@johnnybooo6982]

Хорош ))

[@joules_sw]

$2000 Homestudio with garage on Tamarindo Costa Rica

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

@@PolPot-ef1qq bla bla bla

[@WanderlustZero]

They forgot to paint it red to go faster. Space for a couple of pintle-mounted big shootas too

[@amai2307]

I think purple fits more, nothing feel better than suddenly appearing in your tank near the enemy .

[@renamon303]

@@amai2307 how abaut WOMBO COMBO purple outside red inside

[@amai2307]

@@renamon303 sounds like a plan.

[@etonemoilogin]

sparco stickers will help

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

Germans plan to paint tanks pink when the commander is transgender. lol

[@GatecrasherSlim]

Fallout - "War. War never changes." Blyatmobile - Hold my hippie chain curtains, I'm going in.

[@Chuck-mm2yp]

Amazing how humans adapt fast during war

[@Kaarna5]

Fast? It's taken them over a year to figure out this pathetic "innovation".

[@AmoreG94]

@@Kaarna5you’re dumb 😂. These mugs have been really affective. Russia has changed so much since staring off the war. They use to have tanks in one column for a miles in the being of the war.

[@waylingtons]

😂😂😂. Yeah it’s taken them way too long to staple some metal sheeting to a tank to call this “fast” or “adapting”. It look completely desperate 😂

[@lred1383]

​@@Kaarna5 both sides are macgyvering things like these to adapt, because Ukraine doesn't have the time or industrial power to invent and produce tanks fit for modern warfare's challenges at a reasonable rate. Russia doesn't either, at least not while its inner workings are not geared towards the war effort like they were in the 40s. Why spend billions on a new technology, just to be marginally better than slapping a few scavenged metal panels on a surplus hunk of shit?

[@Piratulus]

It's not an innovation. It's just a bunch of guys doing whatever they can with whatever they have while in the field

[@oddlypositive3602]

The next Warthunder update is going to be wild.

[@zech007]

Reminds me of Age of Empires Siege Rams, and they kind of move like one too

[@bastiaan7777777]

Hahahaha! Yes!

[@SCH292]

Ah yes. Fucking Uturd deleted my comment. Send in a Monk to convert it.

[@SCH292]

Ah yes. Yoyo turd keep deleting my comment. Send in a monk.

[@bakker071]

11

[@ivankrylov6270]

WOOLOOLOO

[@joshuashackleford739]

Very impressive. I guarantee this was thought up by the grunts on the ground and word spread, textbook example of adaptation

[@DisorderInOrder]

clearly what people seem to forget, and are making jokes about... is your battle brothers, are dying. from hard to stop and detect threats YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN! in the era of tanks, they strapped and welded, and affixed metal meshes, and anything they could to prevent HEAT ammunition. if you dont want to die, you improvise. Simple as that. these men are trying their best to live another day. i applaud them regardless of the side they fight for. people dying in wars isnt a joke. dont treat them as jokes... those are fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, brothers, sisters. all dying. disgusting that this is a well recorded war where people can laugh at death from their homes.

[@jotr.9786]

yes but it's hard to fell sorry for the people that volunteered to join the russian army ...

[@noii1524]

Invading another country and killing civs is now considered as an act of bravery?

[@park1776]

​@@jotr.9786we don't have any sympathy for anglosaxons either

[@user-wb7ez9ud4p]

@@jotr.9786 like how you volunteered to do whatever shitass job you have? or how you volunteered to pay for your overpriced property and pay property tax?

[@mcarlinod]

​@@jotr.9786 Why? They are fighting for their country

[@1s3ngr1m]

If it looks dumb, and works...it ain't dumb

[@UdumbaraMusic]

Until you need to get out in a hurry at least.

[@tigerboy977]

​@@UdumbaraMusic your not getting out of a Russian jack in the box anyways. If you do it would be via their quick eject.

[@bificommander7472]

If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky. And it's companion: "They'll never expect this" means "I'm going to do something stupid."

[@pessien8474]

If you do somwthing batshit insane enough, your enemies just might not expect it

[@haliaeetus8221]

​@@bificommander7472 So you are referring to the Abrams tanks then. Useless and expensive. i.e. Double dumb.

[@olliefoxx7165]

Imagine being the crew of a turtle tank. You are the lead vehicle of an assault across a mined area. You know there will be drone attacks, mortar/artillery shells shot at you, RPG attacks, tanks shooting at you... The crew of the turtle tanks are pretty brave fellas.

[@TheBooban]

@@spectre750and then the towing tank tows you across minefields without a care in the world.

[@jimjohnson3410]

@@spectre750 The shell will have near zero effect on a sabot. Long rod penetrators will go through thin sheet metal like a pencil through paper. It will cause a explosive formed penetrator to disperse aka RPGs which is exactly what this is mitigating.

[@Exduper808]

Penal battalion members?

[@Warren_Peace]

​@@jimjohnson3410 The metal sheets would decrease the impact of the Sabot before it even hits reactive armor, and then after that it had to go through composite armor. The shed also obscures the shap of the tank that you can't even aim for weak spots.

[@1337user]

I heard turtle tank has just a driver 😮

[@NoPantsBaby]

Killdozer looking on from Ancap Heaven: Go forth my son!

[@dragonlord4643]

it kinda reminds me of the german WWII Tank destroyers and Assault Guns / Sturmgeschütze / StuG III for example. Heavily armored and "no Turret"

[@skodovkar]

Or Hetzer.

[@ptolemaicfoxxo3032]

Tall Hetzer isnt real it cant hurt you Tall Hetzer:

[@rokinz3270]

So maybe we are actually going to see the return of assault guns, similar concepts to the STUG

[@sauce1542]

Reject modernity embace STUG

[@nicoincognito2160]

Right. The Sturmgeschütz is back. Reminded me at the Hetzer. Even normal german tanks had protection plates.

[@IRONHIDE_Live]

i personaly would add that roof to turet only and it would be able to move it too

[@i_Love_Curry]

It's a war, anything workable is possible.

[@CarmineKar98K]

Those are some ugly assault guns brother

[@o.00.o74]

These turtle tanks are becoming more and more elaborate. The one with the mesh curtains takes the cake though!

[@rhetorical1488]

the hanging chains are common defense in the Swiss mountain fortress gun placements.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

It's got an expresso machine

[@neilbrown2948]

shy turtle

[@websitemartian]

is that for drones or is it to set missles off early ? or both ?

[@DonMarquez-wj7ir]

It even has a special military operation Samovar vodka dispenser to keep you warm in the winter!!!!

[@danielpercent5434]

To be honest if it didn't move around, it could possibly fool ground troops thinking its a barn/ structure from a distance- giving the tank the element of surprise 😮

[@Mary-bs3rq]

Exactly......pure genius actually......and if there were several different ones in a column, they'd be tough to spot!

[@towmissile]

This is a funny but working design to help with FPVs as they are more common. They will detonate HEAT and HE causing them to not affect the tank.

[@MrEinlishem]

at 1.:12 what you see is a person flying off to the left side of the tank (a body of course ) and his survivor squad member rushing out to see if he is alive... man thats scary...

[@jajaboss]

60 years of evolution and we got tank destroyer again LOL

[@Broadsword999]

It looks like someone took the idea of knocking something up in a shed and then decided to just build a mobile shed.

[@manuelcaldicot852]

😂😂😂si

[@willhall4037]

So nostalgic, so world war two British Funnies!

[@TheGoodguy68]

Park it in a village and it looks like a shed.

[@Thousand_yard_King]

That way they can work on it anywhere they are lol

[@nvelsen1975]

"Sergei, remember those 'in Soviet Russia' memes we saw on internet? In Soviet Russia, shed is your tank."

[@ironkcirb285]

When a bob Semple and a t72 love each other very much.......

[@robinharwood5044]

Best comment!

[@sirmattington4200]

its an interesting concept, I wonder if we will see more armored tanks in the future to deal with drone attacks from the air, but once again depends on the payload of the drones too.

[@1183newman]

actually quite good camouflage if the tank is stationary.

[@JKSSubstandard]

You mention their use as breacher vehicles. If I remember my news reports correctly, this is likely because Ukraines favorite tactic to wipe out advances is to disable the lead vehicle with mines or drones and then use artillery to wipe the column behind as they stop and regroup. By using a mine plow to clear the road for the column and a turtle to prevent the lead vehicle from being disabled by drone, it would make their columns much more lethal unless Ukraine can step up their use of anti-tank missiles

[@TheArmourersBench]

Yes indeed, that's my read on this.

[@MrMturko44]

hit second vehicle? :D

[@JKSSubstandard]

@@MrMturko44 not as effective. The columns are typically 4-5 vehicles total, so hitting second is less effective at stopping the convoy. And hitting the second allows the first to quickly pull out chains and tow the wreck to free up the road

[@leksus4304]

Всё просто, как вчерашний день. У Украины нет средств поражения тяжёлой техники, в том числе и танков, как самых смертоносных. Только дроны. Вот и делают русские защиту именно от них.

[@MrJ0lly]

@@MrMturko44 but then the mineclearing vehicle is still operational, doesnt stop the column

[@mickmacgonigle5021]

It's obviously a garden shed equipped with shovels

[@GhostScout42]

this is an industrial washing machine the Russians were looting

[@kendo2377]

And it can driven barefoot since the Russians don't have boots.

[@doktorzasinuse]

Solution = RC car 🚗

[@Vasya6626.]

Сука расмешил😅😅😅😅

[@zvonoc-80]

У нас же только валеньки делают. В валенки и обуты ребята. Я бы посмотрел танкистов НАТО в валенки обутых или немца зимой и в тапочках как после ВО войны. ​@@kendo2377

[@maxmackinlay618]

I'm an Aussie and would build trampoline on top of it.

[@fabiospasiano9885]

Say anything you want but this is actually quite brilliant. These people are quite good at improvising.

[@johnallen8680]

Experience of the battlefield has always bought about improvised modifications to equipment. Much of which has been developed into new designs.. It may look unlikely and even ridiculous, but if it works that's all that matters.

[@lightworker2956]

If it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

[@ayaxgarcia8847]

try to make understand that to the call of duty comments here

[@peppapig9833]

At first I assumed they were trying to hide from drones and what not, but absolutely no camouflage then I assumed for drones and etc

[@user-mz1pq7jg8w]

Конечно это работает, теперь просто надо дождаться переосмысления и доработок в заводской версии

[@justaguycalledjosh]

​@user-mz1pq7jg8w Oh, and maybe try make the turret not go to space this time.

[@404dne]

its a highly specialized modification tailored to a specific situation which is the lack of real anti tank weapons rn.

[@TheArmourersBench]

Exactly. Thanks for watching.

[@maxkummel1074]

Wouldn't a net over the Tank also work?

[@MrReymoclif714]

@@TheArmourersBenchGood comment.

[@ZETA14.88]

@@maxkummel1074 no, the turtle shape is important. It make them similar to actual barn and most weapon systems filter barn-like shapes

[@mickg7299]

Good example of the KISS principle.

[@revolter7094]

A tank could be produced with outer and inner armor in the future, but as improvising goes, this is S tier.

[@michaelangelosimon4489]

This made me remember the Marawi siege in the Philippines. APCs are vulnerable to RPGs so the soldiers wrapped the vehicles with wooden planks and doodled whatever they think of, may it be their names, references to popular movies, humorous lines and whatever they see fit. They also tried the wet stacked cardboard, and it worked. Because the RPG munition the insurgents used are home made or old anti personnel weapons. Tho it could still be effective against APCs if the rocket hit the right angle, so they needed some extra protection.

[@jimjones9239]

We have gone full circle. The tanks in WWI were like this, the turret did not rotate and were built to offer some protection to the soldiers inside the tank ignoring mobility or firing ports.

[@Knyazevv]

so this is so that the drones do not damage the tank

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

​@@Knyazevv Yes. There is also a theory its also to protect infantry riding atop who would jump off and rush an objective at the head of an advance

[@vanjamenadzer]

It actually goes way back in time - medieval battering rams. And the purpose is kind of the same, except they are not ramming the doors of a castle, but something else of UA troops.

[@brothercoconut6599]

Heard the first tank got it rotation wreck so they just put metal sheet and ramming device on and put on mine clearing duty

[@dzonikg28]

Mobility means nothing now where drones can go much faster and also provide great overview off battlefield and you have artillery that in combination with watch drones are very precise. I think future off tanks are some slow giant metal boxes with 10 layers off protection

[@masterkaljami6822]

Man I love Tutel tanks. They are so funny. It ain't stupid if it works.

[@DonMarquez-wj7ir]

So watcha gon a do about buried plastic encased command detonated mines genius????

[@mrhot9101]

​@@DonMarquez-wj7ir Это защита от дронов, а не от мин

[@backpackpepelon3867]

​@@DonMarquez-wj7iraint no tanks will survive that one. But this turtle can take lots of drones hits, better than anything in any modern armies right now.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

​@@DonMarquez-wj7ir no equipment in impervious to everything. You can't just have mines buried in the exact spot you want, but you can fly drones

[@NJ-wb1cz]

​@@backpackpepelon3867i wonder if Ukrainians will be allowed to make turtles out of their abrams tanks. Probably not because the US wouldn't want being ridiculed for having tanks that require barns being built on top of them

[@polishscribe674]

Some people came to laugh, I came here to admire human rescourcefulness. We are not the same.

[@ddoperations2768]

Actually a very clever idea

[@brianfreeman8290]

No music ! THANK YOU ! I've subscribed immediately.

[@TheArmourersBench]

Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching.

[@Puschit1]

The A-Team montage music would fit, though.

[@Kniazz]

Yep, same!

[@bluemanxd4339]

Naw that's ain't no turtle that a damn barn

[@kharkanas6779]

😅

[@user-zf4uj2zc3h]

Сарай делает пиу пиу и ты бежишь прятаться в подвал

[@jeorgedavid3239]

😂

[@vanjamenadzer]

It looks like medieval battering ram and in a way, it kind off is one lol

[@DeltaEchoGolf]

@@vanjamenadzer Jan Zizka.

[@rodericklenz5030]

We never realized just how far ahead of his time Bob Semple really was...

[@Pendy13131]

We are really going back to WW1 with this one boys

[@realdragao6367]

Anti-drone improvisations are the opposite of going backwards.

[@codyphillips1821]

You know, it always seems like war eventually boils down to this. These highly intricate and complicated ways to protect a tank and eventually someone does something like this in the field and it works well enough to keep being used

[@FelipeCH-fn7sc]

So far...has not worked to well

[@folx2733]

It boils down to this because t-72 doesn't have any modern active protection systems lmao...

[@Kawaiijihad]

Honestly it's not that great it just looks funny

[@KABKAKIy_KAPATEJI_DOP]

​@@FelipeCH-fn7sc😂😂ukr bot, ok

[@FelipeCH-fn7sc]

@@KABKAKIy_KAPATEJI_DOP it's okay. You can cry, you Fascist Dog

[@adriannv2562]

It worked the first time, they got a big chunk out of the town

[@JeanLucCaptain]

One important detail is these things are only put at the front of an AFV column in the lead position. The rest is normal AFVs so these are basically intended to draw fire and clear mines.

[@peps_vinyl]

welcome back STUG

[@topcat8804]

Looks like something Leonardo da Vinci might design

[@brianboye8025]

He did, as you know. It was to be horse propelled.

[@DonMarquez-wj7ir]

Yea! Vodka enhances imagination! Great engineering asset!!!!

[@hedleylamarr7283]

This is shit😂😂

[@marcjan5938]

Another advantage I see is, it will be more difficult to spot with drones in an urban area if the tank does not move.

[@LS-jv9hp]

I know Ukraine's poor but they're not that poor that what'd look like a moving African 3rd world sheet shack to be common.

[@jasondaveries9716]

Lmao

[@jotr.9786]

any garage now will be looked upon with suspicion

[@atomf9143]

“Stay very still… their vision is based on movement… hopefully they won’t see the garage that popped up in the street in the last 20 minutes…”

[@redTanto]

Reactive armor isn't always as cheap as desirable and spaced armor is cheap and replaceable in field. "This is what efficiency looks like". What we should be confused about is the lack of effective mine plows with the plethora of vehicles.

[@francisboaz5530]

Ingeniously done

[@doodskie999]

Everyone laughed at the corrugated armor of the Bob Semple tank. Look who is laughing now?

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

ctrlC+ctrlV

[@anthonyhulse1248]

We’re all laughing at Ruzzia.

[@saucy743]

​@@anthonyhulse1248 more like seething

[@moscuadelendaest]

@@saucy743 cry harder 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Tomi-sc7dv]

@@anthonyhulse1248 And the banderites are all dying.

[@Cplblue]

"Turtle tank mk2" 😂

[@Rick8191-tv8pg]

It works better than the abrams, Ukraine has pulled all surviving Abrams away from the front indefinitely, because they get destroyed instantly...

[@SRB_PL]

Tutel

[@dion8962]

Mk3

[@kindlingking]

Tsarevich Mangal

[@powersource1988]

To be honest, from a distance and especially from the air when it stopped it looked like one of the houses. Perhaps a barn.

[@raoultittel]

Reminds me of the TV series 'the A team' where corrugated iron was used to great effect by the afore mentioned as protection against machine gun fire. lol

[@HappyAspid]

Not Tzar's Grill, but Tzar Grill. Analogy with Tzar Kolokol (Tzar Bell) and Tzar Pushka (Tzar Cannon).

[@giogio51592]

AND the Tzar Bomba

[@SmartassX1]

There was also a Tzar Tank in the 1920s.

[@HappyAspid]

@@SmartassX1 correction - it was earlier. Before revolution. Project wasn't finished before WW1 and after was successfuly forgotten.

[@SmartassX1]

@@HappyAspid Oh right. Because they obviously wouldn't even have named it that after their revolution. The tank prototype was simply left at the testing area throughout the 20s, until it was eventually dismantled.

[@user-ex9ex2hs5k]

Also Tzar = King

[@illomens2766]

Russia changed the face of the war twice, first time by putting wings on bombs and the second time by building barns around their tanks.

[@ttpechon2535]

"Wings on bombs" is nothing new, at all.

[@KSmithwick1989]

Glide bombs been around since WW2. Also JDAM kits have existed for over 30 years. So modifying old bombs is also an old concept.

[@chaosXP3RT]

The Russians stole the idea of "wings on bombs" from the JDAMs the US gave to Ukraine. Although I appreciate your attempt at pro-Russian propaganda. The ignorant will definitely start repeating that everywhere

[@angryralphs2516]

​@KSmithwick1989 Russia invented it first, though. During Afghanistan war.

[@KSmithwick1989]

@angryralphs2516 The Soviet's definitely didn't invent. The US AGM-62 Walleye entered service in 1963. Not to mention, GB-1 entered service 20 years earlier in 1943. And that's without even touching the more famous German WWII glide bombs.

[@KillahZomby]

I think that these sheet also protect against many types of attacks ... - You can't see the tank - and that-for don't know where the weakness is. - piercing bullets will penetrate the first shield - but start to tumble that-for reducing their impact dramatically - hollow bullets will explode about half a meter to early - also reducing their effect - to penetrate the real armor of the tank. It comes at the cost of being highly visible and have low awareness of the surroundings. But from what I think - this tanks are on the field to be shot at - with anti-tank rounds that cost several thousand dollars each.

[@RonaldTrumpOfficial]

The WW1 re-enactments are getting too realistic

[@Pikulok1]

This may seem funny if you don’t know that the non-covered Abrams was destroyed in the first 20 minutes of the battle by a 100$ drone. But it looked really cool)

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

"One lost Abrams is a tragedy. A hundred lost T-72s is a statistic." - Josef Stalin

[@Pikulok1]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD " Еveryone asks me why we don't make massive roofs for our tanks? The answer is simple - we already have a digger machine. And clay mixer too..." - B. Obama

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

Kinda see why Ukraine pulled them out of the frontlines , all tanks burn the same after all

[@redhunter68]

We don't put these ridiculous shells on our tanks because there's not a single airforce or air defense in the world that can stop us. Not to mention the APS system alongside our EW equipment actually working. Down side is there's not that much of the APS systems produced yet. Something that is rapidly becoming taken care of. The abrams already goes no where in the US military without all the other pieces with it. What Ukraine has done with the abrams in this war is equivalent to Ukraine having and sending in one of our carriers with out any escorts and less than a 1/4 of its aircraft on board. It's going to get the shit kicked out of it. Thankfully russians are dumb and it's taken them, going on, 4 years of losing an embarrassing amount of equipment and personnel to a "weak" neighbor before they came up with some form of half-assed, partially successful joke of a work-around that wouldn't be effective at all in the face of a real military. It's just pathetic that they can't even handle Ukraine but think they can handle the world on the battlefield.

[@EatSuck]

Nothing in a US backed war costs $100.

[@rainnelmaclang4803]

The sheet metal throws off the drones' detonation range proximity sensor, making it fire early, at a wrong distance from the real armor, making the exploding warhead ineffective in penetrating the armor.

[@thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481]

If only there where a lil tube sticking to show you where to aim where the metal is thinnest and to disable the main gun on the tank....oh wait

[@Alblaka]

@@thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481 I'd suggest that explosives-laden drones are *slightly* less agile than your regular sports racing drone, and when targeting a tank equipped with EW, they might have to be positioned at a distance, and then sent in an autonomous straight path as the control signal wont reach the drone. Going "Well, they can just hit the small hole in the front" seems like a very surface-level take.

[@thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481]

@Alblaka look if strapping an entire shed to your tank so it can only aim in one direction was the answer I think we would have seen these before the cope cages no?

[@adamlesandrini312]

I would imagine a simple program change will fix this. Hopefully soon.

[@hornmonk3zit]

We did the same thing on our armored vehicles during our fun times in the Middle East, those chain link fence looking things around MRAPs and Strykers do the exact same job.

[@andrewmccaffrey9381]

That is some A-Team level engineering right there - B.A. Baracus approved!

[@onetruecharlatan]

Looks like something Clarkson would have "built" on a Top Gear special.

[@JelMain]

Hm. A T-72 mated with a caravan.

[@saucy743]

He stole James May's shed

[@hitoshisawa8479]

The jagtiger is back

[@user-oc3im9fe9q]

It's funny for couch warriors at the computer. If you want to survive the war, you will come up with not only a barn, but also a whole mobile bomb shelter...

[@superspies32]

Early of the war everyone laughed at the cage surrounded Russia tanks and the turret, now even Israel have to do that with their tanks.

[@leonardwei3914]

"If it works, it ain't stupid." -When I was in the Army Saying

[@Extra-Celestial7]

​@@superspies32And merkavas are still getting smoked anyway.

[@mekal177]

​@@superspies32ages around tanks have been used since ww2 nobody laughed at them because they have been proven effective What people did laugh at was the Russian construction of them

[@Shinshocks555]

If Russians soldiers were actually interested in surviving the war, they would have dodged the draft lol

[@robertsolomielke5134]

TY, great vid. New sub. Also NO music in Niiiice. I like clean reports without hype an drama, you deliver that-well done !

[@TheArmourersBench]

Ahh well thank you very much, that's the style I go for. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!

[@EngineerMK2004]

Pretty clever to make your tank disguised like a garden shed.

[@luki188]

During WW2 some of the American Sherman Tanks have been armoured like this too. Either Sandbags or Concrete, Bricks, Wood anything Soldiers could find

[@oldgysgt]

We referred to such modifications as "field expediency".

[@weybye91]

Rome called, they want their batteringram design back

[@anselmdanker9519]

😂😂😂😂 Emperor Nero is not amused.

[@David-ng7cr]

😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@davidkermes376]

as they said on "return of the king," "GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!"

[@kindlingking]

Brother, we are the (third) Rome

[@drscopeify]

@@kindlingking Russia is not Rome lol, it has no industry, it is not culturally important, it has minor trade at best. Germany has a much smaller population but 2x GDP. That's not how you do Rome.

[@oskardumanski8538]

Unbelievable technology! Orcs gained the next civilisation level.

[@I...I___I__I.I___I_.I.I]

It's really interesting how warfare evolves

[@ZappyOh]

Turtle Tank needs a theme song :)

[@mhas9110]

Teenage mutant Russian turtle 😂

[@FedPut]

Turtle Tank, Turtle Tank, Does vatever a turtle can.

[@free_at_last8141]

Blyat Man hardbass.

[@fourtysix4646]

I vote the guy who sings about the 3d printed Draco make it.

[@jerryku7185]

The Flintstones?

[@AB1Vampire]

Damn thing looks Medieval.

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

it is...

[@vanjamenadzer]

@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp I sense so much copium in these two tiny words and three dots. The damn thing is so simple, so stupid and yet it's all it took to beat the UA FPV drones. And just as the cope cages, the UA and it's supporters are mocking it, while it remains super effective.

[@JayJay-xy5ch]

​@@vanjamenadzerthey just can't accept it. They just want some ego boost because Ukraine can't push back Russians

[@drscopeify]

@@vanjamenadzer It is not effective as it can only operate with other tanks around it and they are all exposed. It is an escort like a cheap woman but it needs the men as well to operate and they are all exposed. At some point the Russian army will order to stop with these becasue it is actually slowing down operations, this is actually reducing effectiveness of the Russian army. An offensive force is not meant to hide behind a wall but to storm at the enemy. This is actually bad for the Russian army which is why I think the Russian army leadership will order this to stop at some point.

[@_lika_dedicated_4105]

Age of impires Стенобитное орудие 😅

[@Umbator]

That must be adding quite a bit of weight to that suspension

[@mateuszbanaszak4671]

WWIII style war, expectations : *Exoskeletons, Land Battle Drones, Laser Defense Systems, Rail/Coil-guns* Reality : *Medieval Battering Ram*

[@prfwrx2497]

I must stress the fact that the shell alone won't stop a PG7 warhead from penetrating the tank armor underneath, but the added silhouette could lead to a bad shot placement, with the penetrating jet missing the tank hull or turret entirely.

[@NOBODY754]

It's just against drones

[@VyantQuijt]

​@@NOBODY754drones carrying warheads though

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

not going to harp on, like the rest, but RPG-7s / FPV droves / Middle - Lower class artillery it works well. and supportive fire like artillery is a lot of use of tanks right now. to avoid losses.

[@johnvk7494]

@@julmdamaslefttoe3559 Unless you send multiple. Like two drones, one at a time. The first to remove the shed, the second one to enter the shed.

[@Qwerty-jy9mj]

Everybody knows

[@michaellanger5671]

Ferdinand was a German Tank Hunter that looks somewhat boxy too

[@edwardprime278]

Next will be a giant trojan horse with square wheels

[@tomsmith7207]

Wow that’s some duck tape level solution to a problem. I guess you could call it engineered technically.

[@dannysdailys]

This is what happens when the carpenters union helps build drone proof T-72 tanks. LOL

[@racialconsciousness6996]

I think the purpose of the vehicle is clear: to ride out front of the convoy, to neutralize any incoming drones. It's essentially a convoy shield. EDIT: It's an electronic WF shield. The sheet metal is to protect the electronic WF equipment.

[@johnvk7494]

How is it a convoy shield if you can just a easily send the drone(s) to attack the rest of the convoy? Who says you MUST attack this moving shed at all?? This thing isn't shielding anything, not even itself.

[@nicolas2419]

This shield only protect the leading tank, not all the convoy. The FPV drones could destroy next tanks while the turtle tank continues its way.

[@racialconsciousness6996]

@@johnvk7494 -- The drones cannot reach the vehicles behind it because of it's electronic anti-drone equipment. That's its primary purpose, to create an electronic shield.

[@racialconsciousness6996]

@@nicolas2419 -- Not if it creates an electronic shield in front of them, disabling Ukrainian drones.

[@johnvk7494]

@@racialconsciousness6996 Hahaha! Their EW capabilities are laughable. Most of their EW carrying vehicles and EW Missile systems are still being destroyed by drones. But okay, sure. Anyway...

[@mightyrighty1]

I find those tanks alarming, it'll be hard for a drone to take them out

[@realdragao6367]

And artillery. Artillery doesn’t damage it whatsoever due to spaced armour.

[@gubigubigubigubi]

The futuristic polygon tanks from like 20+ years ago are becoming reality.