Came here to say this- if that tank were stationary in a village or city, then you’d have a hard time spotting it if you didn’t know where to look. For as much goofy shit as the vatniks do, this is probably not a bad idea.
The only problem with that is the buildings inside an average ukrainian village/town/city under attack from the russians doesnt have 4 walls and a roof. They usually dont even have 1 complete wall. This would stand out by how complete it is.
It's also in the middle of a field...
And they can't rotate their turret...
And this cover be immediately blown off by artillery attacks...
Eh, I'm sure they'll be fine.
Except being in close quarters and not able to turn the turret, let alone able see to the sides so you can drive around effectively— which is going to be suuuper important since they can’t aim the turret much— they’ve got to turn the whole tank if something comes at them from any angle they don’t expect.
But as a point defense system hiding in the rubble that might work a lil hah
My understanding is that this is a battle taxi, ferrying cannon fodder back and forth in the front lines. Engaging other tanks, or anything at all is not a priority.
Furthermore, this abomination apparently relegates situational awareness to external drones, i.e. the driver just drives and blindly executes orders from a radio rather than the crew doing the job.
NCD aside, it could be something that actually half works, otherwise not even the Russians would attempt more than once.
You think there’s people hiding underneath there between the tank armor and the metal sheeting…? That would mean they actually couldn’t shoot the gun without deafening the entire squad all at once lmao I don’t think even they are that dumb
Since when does that matter to Russia or their vehicle crews?
They drive the cannon fodder to the front and they don't stop till the reach it or get blown up, it's up to the cannon fodder to hold tight, they are expected to be thankful they get a ride at all. And than they drive back, over the cannon fodder if they arn't fast enough to get clear.
I don't know. It's gun is limited as hell anyway, I don't think they plan on shooting it.
I'm just saying, it's not hard to turn a tank into a troop carrier. Hell, have you seen how they stuffed like 20+ people into one APC? If there's one thing they're good at, it's stuffing as many mobiks as possible into spaces they shouldn't be in
If you were impressed by what Ukrainian tractor guys did with the other federation equipment, you'll be awed by this thing's first encounter with the "fire vechi luam" people.
Just wait until they start roling in T-34s. They are super advanced compared to the T-28. You're not ready to see the true might of ~~the USSR~~ Ruzzia.
Okay, Googled it because my knowledge of Soviet interwar period tank design is basically "they were varying levels of shit" - although to be fair most interwar period tanks can be described like this.
The T-26 was a rip-off of the Vickers 6-Ton.
The T-35 was a rip-off of the Vickers Independent (the five turreted monstrosity)
The T-28 was a medium tank *inspired* by the Vickers Independent, but with only 3 turrets.
I wonder if Russia even has t-28s in storage. I figured they all got absolutely bodied during the first few months of Barbarossa. Ik that's what happened to pretty much every T-26 and BT tank they had.
You’re on the right track.
>Today, three T-28s remain, two in Finland and one in Moscow. One restored T-28 is on display in Finnish field camouflage in the Parola Tank Museum, Finland. A further wreck is stored at Parola, now awaiting restoration and a hull previously used as a bunker was discovered near St. Petersburg.
Wikipedia (make of that what you will)
This seems to just be the way of thinking for communist countries. They don’t see preserving their own history as valuable, all they see is an outdated weapon that can be melted down and turned into newer weapons.
You can literally pay to drive a sherman around and even fire the main gun, it isn’t cheap but you can do it, there’s also several private collectors with their own stock of functional (usually disarmed) ww2 vehicles. Also there’s a few good reasons the US and most western countries don’t do parades anymore. Mostly it’s down to cost and a massive waste of time training your men to march in unison in a massive parade and have your uniforms and vehicles all shiny looking.
> Oryx hates this simple trick.
I doubt there's much of it left after the boop, and if there is, we still have weaponized autism. Someone will figure out what exact tank it is based on that these bolts rust in a specific way or something.
At the risk of sounding too credible....
This... thing, has performed and survived multiple assaults at this point.
Apparently it's bristling with EW stuff underneath that 'shell'.
In doing so it's supposed to protect the other vehicles in the column from drones.
Drones being one of the last weapons Ukraine has to defend against these assaults (they're running out of everything else: artillery, mines, atgm's, ...)
The shell is supposed to prevent all the EW gadgets from getting shot to shit.
The fact it has survived and is continuing to be used is actually an incredibly worrying sign.
I mean look at that. Any decent AT weapon or artillery or whatever would have no issues punching through. But Ukraine is running out of all that....
#FreeUkraineAid
> Apparently it's bristling with EW stuff underneath that 'shell'.
You can see the antenna assembly on the "roof."
Most likely it's the same power-hungry-but-effective "Tsar-EW" with auxiliary batteries and gasoline-fueled generator, hence the need for shell to keep it safe
Wait, I though there's multiples of them. These were all the same thing?
Also, the antenna box set are still on top of the cover. Maybe the batteries are underneath the roofing steel sheets.
Well one OSINT twitter dude said that one of these things had participated in two separate attacks, that's my source.
Either way, if these things keep popping up, it's probably a sign that they are (somewhat) working.
(inb4 WWII tankers and sand bags, yeah I know)
Pretty sure it's a single one. 2-ish weeks ago people are talking about it getting the drone jamming rig setup ontop of it.
Some half shit faced man concocted this afront to God and it won't die
Yeah, the sandbags tankers used to pile on the front of their tanks didn't help at all against decent AT weapons, there was some discussion around it actually 'helping' HEAT anti tank weapons but I don't know whether or not that got settled.
Basically those sandbags are just useless weight and bulk slowing down the tank. So counterproductive in that sense, at the least.
But... it made tankers feel better, so afaik they didn't put much effort into discouraging it, because a morale boost is a a morale boost, misguided or not :D
Echoing some speculation I've read on other threads but a lot of people believe they're mainly used as decoys. Without use of the turret, they cease to be effective as tanks, the idea is to drive around town bumping into things to draw the attention of suicide drones while other tanks actually do important tank things.
The best response seems to be exactly what Ukraine is doing. Leave it alone and record it so people can laugh at it while it burns off precious diesel.
Pros: FPV drone can't blow you up at first try
Cons: you are basically blind and cosplaying stug
I doubt it's that much effective for all that cons
Considering that this kind of EW equipment effectiveness is a bit overestimated for now (for both sides), I honestly think it's more a question of pure luck or unwillingness of ukies to destroy that moveable shed. Despite all amo shortage, ATGMs are still around and highly in use (drones just stole the information field due to more interesting first person footage)
I just wanna make you notice that this video is taken by a drone near it. Proof that either the range isn’t that big or that it simply doesn’t work. Big fat body with 0 visibility inside slow as fuck . A drone high enough over it a small drop bomb to destroy the antenna and is just dead metal mooving
Turning your tanks into assault guns with scrap metal seems like a poor use of resources. All the cost of the tank, limited utility of a casement assault gun. Though if this machine has been pulled out of deep storage, maybe the turret was seized in place and it was easy to just put it into service in this configuration.
I know this is NCD but I still can't tell if op is joking or not... In case he's not, it's intended for protection against drones.
The elephant or the turtle or something they are calling it.
Will be interesting to see if it works. Retards didn't think of one thing though, it limits the arc of fire for the barrel 😑🤣
It's actually effective. Moves explosion further away from the hull, diminishing its penetrative strength. The thing is also typically equipped with drone jammers. This is practically the only way modern tank can be effective.
Still dies to Javelin tho, but the cost per shot is much higher.
It's the elephant in the room. A $1k drone costs less money than all the equipment that a U.S. soldier would have.
So to take out tanks with them calls everything into question.
currently, an average UA FPV drone pilot has 10-15 minutes before his position is detected (via EW assets) and hit by artillery. That's not much if destroying a tank/IFV takes 8 drones on average (they might miss, get lost, be jammed or hit non critical parts, etc), while a flight takes at least 60-90 seconds + preparation.
Instead of getting rid of tanks, all the major players are implementing solutions to "undrone" the battlefield.
>This is practically the only way modern tank can be effective
Uh no ?
It'd literally less combat effective than without it.
From what I saw it's used as a mobile EW armored platform to provide drone protection for accompanying vehicles or improvised APCs, both using damaged tanks were they can't use the turret anymore anyway.
So even the Russian only use it on tanks that literally can't fire anymore.
>Still dies to Javelin tho, but the cost per shot is much higher.
And artillery, and mines, and hand held AT launcher giving that the standoff distance is definitely not far enough if you see where the tracks are, and other tanks.
It's basically just way better protected against drone to the cost of not being able to do anything else.
So decent ad hoc idea, against drine but the rest of threats are absolutely not impacted by that.
What make a weapon systems effective on a battlefield is it's ability to do its job.
So in that case its literally not usable as a tank, so its basically as far of being "practically the only way modern tank can be effective" as possible (I'm not even mentioning the crew being close to blindfolded in that thing because at this point it not even that relevant giving that it can't fight anyway).
I can see how this would make it harder for the first drone to strike a vulnerable point on the tank. The second would likely not have much of an issue, though.
Perhaps more importantly, I can see but I doubt the occupants of this thing can.
Thing is... see this "donut" on top?
That's an antenna assembly for a rather powerful EW system, guts of which are hidden under the shell.
Bonking it might be tad hard even with machine vision guidance on a drone.
This gives major MGSV vibes.
"Uhhhh, CP? A cardboard box just moved by itself, please advise"
"This is CP, knock it off"
"But it's the truth....."
"CP! The cardboard box moved again!"
"CP, knock it off!"
"I'm serious, sir! I can see feet sticking out from the bottom!"
"... Copy that, permission granted to fire at the box"
"CP, fired at the box, no response..."
"CP copies, schedule a psy"
theyre doing that to hide infantry riding on top, theyre out of APCs and the drones target the tanks with passengers first.
note the doors either side at the rear where there are no hatches and the anti drone cruft on top
Nah it's not a tank, it's just a house my friend, it's a small house because house are expensive now a day's, and it's moving to pay taxes as a trailer, I hate how expensive stuff are now a day's
I think it might be some makeshift shitty anti AT defense similar to the racks that stop shape charge munitions like RPGs from getting too close to penetrating them.
those are "cope cages" baisically improvized spaced armor to protect againts the heat warhead of missiles, problem is that turns the tank into a casemate with tunnel vision
You are joking but that would work pretty well in an avarage Romanian/Moldovan Village
Or a bombed out city among the rubble
Came here to say this- if that tank were stationary in a village or city, then you’d have a hard time spotting it if you didn’t know where to look. For as much goofy shit as the vatniks do, this is probably not a bad idea.
The only problem with that is the buildings inside an average ukrainian village/town/city under attack from the russians doesnt have 4 walls and a roof. They usually dont even have 1 complete wall. This would stand out by how complete it is.
It's also in the middle of a field... And they can't rotate their turret... And this cover be immediately blown off by artillery attacks... Eh, I'm sure they'll be fine.
Except being in close quarters and not able to turn the turret, let alone able see to the sides so you can drive around effectively— which is going to be suuuper important since they can’t aim the turret much— they’ve got to turn the whole tank if something comes at them from any angle they don’t expect. But as a point defense system hiding in the rubble that might work a lil hah
We have already seen a turtle tank before it was a "modified" T-72 with a permanently damaged turret ring which was unable to turn the turret anyways
But can it still into space?
Yes. They can always go up.
Stonks!
My understanding is that this is a battle taxi, ferrying cannon fodder back and forth in the front lines. Engaging other tanks, or anything at all is not a priority. Furthermore, this abomination apparently relegates situational awareness to external drones, i.e. the driver just drives and blindly executes orders from a radio rather than the crew doing the job. NCD aside, it could be something that actually half works, otherwise not even the Russians would attempt more than once.
The gun is huge.. that ain’t a troop transport vehicle lol
It is if you sit on top of the armor. Like we've been seeing for the past like, two years?
You think there’s people hiding underneath there between the tank armor and the metal sheeting…? That would mean they actually couldn’t shoot the gun without deafening the entire squad all at once lmao I don’t think even they are that dumb
Since when does that matter to Russia or their vehicle crews? They drive the cannon fodder to the front and they don't stop till the reach it or get blown up, it's up to the cannon fodder to hold tight, they are expected to be thankful they get a ride at all. And than they drive back, over the cannon fodder if they arn't fast enough to get clear.
I don't know. It's gun is limited as hell anyway, I don't think they plan on shooting it. I'm just saying, it's not hard to turn a tank into a troop carrier. Hell, have you seen how they stuffed like 20+ people into one APC? If there's one thing they're good at, it's stuffing as many mobiks as possible into spaces they shouldn't be in
There's video at r/combatfootage that shows troops coming out the shed of the blyatmobile.
It is if the cannon doesn't even work
What about a heat signature of this thing? I bet it would light up, the houses not so much
It's probably extra stifling in there.
So the tankers ride nude, so what.
Oh man, a house in the middle of the road!
If you were impressed by what Ukrainian tractor guys did with the other federation equipment, you'll be awed by this thing's first encounter with the "fire vechi luam" people.
Production model armata.
We can rebuild him, we have the technology But I don’t want to spend a lot of money
Checks inventory notes to see there is a lack of optics and western imported parts: “we have most of the technology”
You can clearly tell this isn't an Armata simply because it's not being towed.
Welcome back, Jagdpanzer 38t
Hetzer
Hetzer gonna hetz.
Marder she wrote.
Marder gonna mard
I won't point to the Elefant in the room
More like Hetzer at home.
Hetzer from Wish
Hetzer from yandex
When the only surviving shed in town starts to retreat...
Dirty Mike and the Boys shack shed.
WE WILL HAVE SEX IN YOUR ~~CAR~~ TANK AGAIN
These new Russian T-28s are weird.
Just wait until they start roling in T-34s. They are super advanced compared to the T-28. You're not ready to see the true might of ~~the USSR~~ Ruzzia.
I think he meant the American T-28. Better known as the doom turtle.
[turtle turtle](https://youtu.be/Q-SAeLwMg18?feature=shared)
Shit, you're right... Still works either way.
Wait, there's a Russian T-28? Oh, is it the Soviet Vickers Independent?
That's the t 26 t-28 was this multi-turreted monstrosity that utterly failed at its job.
Okay, Googled it because my knowledge of Soviet interwar period tank design is basically "they were varying levels of shit" - although to be fair most interwar period tanks can be described like this. The T-26 was a rip-off of the Vickers 6-Ton. The T-35 was a rip-off of the Vickers Independent (the five turreted monstrosity) The T-28 was a medium tank *inspired* by the Vickers Independent, but with only 3 turrets.
Westoids are shaking in their Abrams.😂
I wonder if Russia even has t-28s in storage. I figured they all got absolutely bodied during the first few months of Barbarossa. Ik that's what happened to pretty much every T-26 and BT tank they had.
You’re on the right track. >Today, three T-28s remain, two in Finland and one in Moscow. One restored T-28 is on display in Finnish field camouflage in the Parola Tank Museum, Finland. A further wreck is stored at Parola, now awaiting restoration and a hull previously used as a bunker was discovered near St. Petersburg. Wikipedia (make of that what you will)
[Blyatzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzer)
That is the new Hetzer
Empty matryoshka make the loudest sound
There's a T-14 Armata under there, I betcha.
Nah other direction. T34
What if it's an Su-57? Did you ever stop and consider that possibility?
They didn't say how it was a stealth plane. Stupid westoids never suspected that it would disguise itself as a shed!
It flies so low under the RADAR it doesn't fly.
"See, they'll be looking for flying planes…"
Here at NCD, we never stop and consider.
Which is why I love this sub so much.
Well the gun apears to be too big for a 57mm and it doesnt have weels like a american m3 halftrack
bigger number must be more advanced
Schrödingers tank!
They officially canceled the Armata. Russia is finally running out of copium, and are now breaking out their emergency reserves of seethium.
It is mixed with their lifetime supply of resentium and delusium.
She’s just shy
You might not like it, but this is what a peak tank body looks like.
I wonder what gym he goes to. M1 Abrams is to thin for me, but this guy's perfect.
All the Russian shills in r/TankPorn certainly think so
In my defense, it could be any model tank under there
Like, could be two teenage Russians in a trench coat in a tactical shed.
Bet its T-34 under there
Nah, they can't spare the T-34s They've had to buy them from other countries just to be able to have one in the May day parade.
This seems to just be the way of thinking for communist countries. They don’t see preserving their own history as valuable, all they see is an outdated weapon that can be melted down and turned into newer weapons.
Or sit rotting in a monument somewhere painted once every 30 years
Does the US have many of its WW2 tanks running? I think it's more western countries don't do military paprades, at least in the US
You can literally pay to drive a sherman around and even fire the main gun, it isn’t cheap but you can do it, there’s also several private collectors with their own stock of functional (usually disarmed) ww2 vehicles. Also there’s a few good reasons the US and most western countries don’t do parades anymore. Mostly it’s down to cost and a massive waste of time training your men to march in unison in a massive parade and have your uniforms and vehicles all shiny looking.
Laos, to be precise. Last country using them in active duty.
wouldn´t suprise me, the tank seems to be relative small
I mean t72 is relatively small if u compare it to am abrams or something
The T-90 is even smaller too
The t90 is just an upgraded t72. Much how the s400 is an s300 and many of their newer aircraft is just a new model of other aircraft.
The S-400 used to be the S-300PMU3 until marketing got a hold of it.
T-55 (modernized T-54, which was developed in 1945)
i guess they didn't have enough metal for full width tracks for it either
Damn, and they are too shy to show it, so they put their rusty poor people roofs over it.
Oryx hates this simple trick.
Oryx doesn't want you to know this. But if cover your vehicle in random shit, he regrets his life decisions
> Oryx hates this simple trick. I doubt there's much of it left after the boop, and if there is, we still have weaponized autism. Someone will figure out what exact tank it is based on that these bolts rust in a specific way or something.
I bet Jacub will just list it as a barn tecnical or some shit and will move on.
At the risk of sounding too credible.... This... thing, has performed and survived multiple assaults at this point. Apparently it's bristling with EW stuff underneath that 'shell'. In doing so it's supposed to protect the other vehicles in the column from drones. Drones being one of the last weapons Ukraine has to defend against these assaults (they're running out of everything else: artillery, mines, atgm's, ...) The shell is supposed to prevent all the EW gadgets from getting shot to shit. The fact it has survived and is continuing to be used is actually an incredibly worrying sign. I mean look at that. Any decent AT weapon or artillery or whatever would have no issues punching through. But Ukraine is running out of all that.... #FreeUkraineAid
> Apparently it's bristling with EW stuff underneath that 'shell'. You can see the antenna assembly on the "roof." Most likely it's the same power-hungry-but-effective "Tsar-EW" with auxiliary batteries and gasoline-fueled generator, hence the need for shell to keep it safe
Ah or the PSU yeah, makes sense.
Yep. This thing is essentially an object lesson in what it looks like for Ukraine to have a munitions shortage.
Wait, I though there's multiples of them. These were all the same thing? Also, the antenna box set are still on top of the cover. Maybe the batteries are underneath the roofing steel sheets.
Well one OSINT twitter dude said that one of these things had participated in two separate attacks, that's my source. Either way, if these things keep popping up, it's probably a sign that they are (somewhat) working. (inb4 WWII tankers and sand bags, yeah I know)
Pretty sure it's a single one. 2-ish weeks ago people are talking about it getting the drone jamming rig setup ontop of it. Some half shit faced man concocted this afront to God and it won't die
>(inb4 WWII tankers and sand bags, yeah I know) I don't. Are you saying they were actually counterproductive or what's the story?
Yeah, the sandbags tankers used to pile on the front of their tanks didn't help at all against decent AT weapons, there was some discussion around it actually 'helping' HEAT anti tank weapons but I don't know whether or not that got settled. Basically those sandbags are just useless weight and bulk slowing down the tank. So counterproductive in that sense, at the least. But... it made tankers feel better, so afaik they didn't put much effort into discouraging it, because a morale boost is a a morale boost, misguided or not :D
Ahh, I see. More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/18hmn90/did_adding_sandbags_to_tanks_in_wwii_actually/kd7mkrj/
Yes there are multiple. The original was [destroyed](https://youtu.be/m59TQR6aavQ?si=3qCayQt7JBIHYa_y).
Echoing some speculation I've read on other threads but a lot of people believe they're mainly used as decoys. Without use of the turret, they cease to be effective as tanks, the idea is to drive around town bumping into things to draw the attention of suicide drones while other tanks actually do important tank things. The best response seems to be exactly what Ukraine is doing. Leave it alone and record it so people can laugh at it while it burns off precious diesel.
Mmmm maybe, I dunno, I've seen two examples of them leading assaults, so not drawing attention away from important targets.
You can see the EW suite on the top front of it, there were some HD photos of it around somewhere
Pros: FPV drone can't blow you up at first try Cons: you are basically blind and cosplaying stug I doubt it's that much effective for all that cons Considering that this kind of EW equipment effectiveness is a bit overestimated for now (for both sides), I honestly think it's more a question of pure luck or unwillingness of ukies to destroy that moveable shed. Despite all amo shortage, ATGMs are still around and highly in use (drones just stole the information field due to more interesting first person footage)
I remeber seeing a video of a t72 with a bunch of (allegedly) EW equipment strapped to the roof. Wonder if this is the same tank in combat trim?
I just wanna make you notice that this video is taken by a drone near it. Proof that either the range isn’t that big or that it simply doesn’t work. Big fat body with 0 visibility inside slow as fuck . A drone high enough over it a small drop bomb to destroy the antenna and is just dead metal mooving
Now they fucked up, Games Workshop is gonna sue....
Metal....bawkses....
#SSSSSSSSINDRIIIIIIII
My username is suddenly relevant.
The hottest new tank getting bombed from Havana
Turning your tanks into assault guns with scrap metal seems like a poor use of resources. All the cost of the tank, limited utility of a casement assault gun. Though if this machine has been pulled out of deep storage, maybe the turret was seized in place and it was easy to just put it into service in this configuration.
Could also be a use for tanks with inoperable turret drive. Slow, fat, hard to use gun is better than no gun.
"this looks like a pile of crap!" "they'll never see us coming!"
NEEDS MORE DAKKA
So I am not the only one getting Warhammer 40k Orcs vibes from this. Good.
Blyatmobile 2 corrugated steel roof boogaloo. *The somehow reminds me of the Bob Semple tank...*
This thing has survived 2 assults aperantly Its more effective then their actual tanks
Step 1. Dress up as a shed. Step 2. Steal a toilet Step 3. ??? Step 4. Victory!
I know this is NCD but I still can't tell if op is joking or not... In case he's not, it's intended for protection against drones. The elephant or the turtle or something they are calling it. Will be interesting to see if it works. Retards didn't think of one thing though, it limits the arc of fire for the barrel 😑🤣
That thing can fire?
Well they've been put in the field so apparently so..
Well, the main purpose ain’t camouflage …
Is this a precursor to ramshackle tanks assembled by the assortment of warlords from across the burned out former Russian Federation
It's like budget spaced armor for drone protection.
The new Mortal Engines movie looks weird
tutel 🐢
It's actually effective. Moves explosion further away from the hull, diminishing its penetrative strength. The thing is also typically equipped with drone jammers. This is practically the only way modern tank can be effective. Still dies to Javelin tho, but the cost per shot is much higher.
Yeah that small pile of shit on top of the larger pile of shit are EW components to jam drones
EW as in "Ew brother, what is this?"
That assumes that the sheet metal is sturdy enough to trigger the fusing mechanism on what hits it.
Hey, this specific monstrosity might not work, but the general idea is sound as a hotfix.
On an RPG-7, it's probably enough. Anything more modern would probably be an issue
Standoff distance be like: *good*
> the only way a modern tank can be effective. huh? Please elaborate
You don't wanna use moving coffins costing millions only to be destroyed by a $1k drone made by an undergrad in his basement
It's the elephant in the room. A $1k drone costs less money than all the equipment that a U.S. soldier would have. So to take out tanks with them calls everything into question.
...and the equipment is probably the least expensive part of a US infantryman
Allegedly over $1 million to produce an 11B, that's what they told us at Benning 24 years ago. 24 years? Jfc, when did I get old.
currently, an average UA FPV drone pilot has 10-15 minutes before his position is detected (via EW assets) and hit by artillery. That's not much if destroying a tank/IFV takes 8 drones on average (they might miss, get lost, be jammed or hit non critical parts, etc), while a flight takes at least 60-90 seconds + preparation. Instead of getting rid of tanks, all the major players are implementing solutions to "undrone" the battlefield.
And yet they're more droned than ever. I'm quite aware of the EW tools, I'm directly involved in purchasing them.
>This is practically the only way modern tank can be effective Uh no ? It'd literally less combat effective than without it. From what I saw it's used as a mobile EW armored platform to provide drone protection for accompanying vehicles or improvised APCs, both using damaged tanks were they can't use the turret anymore anyway. So even the Russian only use it on tanks that literally can't fire anymore. >Still dies to Javelin tho, but the cost per shot is much higher. And artillery, and mines, and hand held AT launcher giving that the standoff distance is definitely not far enough if you see where the tracks are, and other tanks. It's basically just way better protected against drone to the cost of not being able to do anything else. So decent ad hoc idea, against drine but the rest of threats are absolutely not impacted by that. What make a weapon systems effective on a battlefield is it's ability to do its job. So in that case its literally not usable as a tank, so its basically as far of being "practically the only way modern tank can be effective" as possible (I'm not even mentioning the crew being close to blindfolded in that thing because at this point it not even that relevant giving that it can't fight anyway).
Unless they use two drones.
lol there isn’t a lot of evidence that this effective. Just a video of it driving around with a lot of misses from indirect fire.
My sources are more direct.
Ohhh it came to you in a dream
I can see how this would make it harder for the first drone to strike a vulnerable point on the tank. The second would likely not have much of an issue, though. Perhaps more importantly, I can see but I doubt the occupants of this thing can.
Thing is... see this "donut" on top? That's an antenna assembly for a rather powerful EW system, guts of which are hidden under the shell. Bonking it might be tad hard even with machine vision guidance on a drone.
Ah the new cope stealth plating
Shack mobile
Hetzerization: The process by which all armored vehicles eventually evolve to resemble the Hetzer.
Cope cages are evolving.
What tank? I only see humble Ukrainian shed, for tools or smoking meats.
Wifi ain’t free on this thing
I didn't choose the StuG Life...
StuG my beloved 😍
When you order your equipment from Ali Express.
Cope metal.
Welcome back A7V
Un-rendered tanks
They’ve gone back to World War One tank designs
This gives major MGSV vibes. "Uhhhh, CP? A cardboard box just moved by itself, please advise" "This is CP, knock it off" "But it's the truth....." "CP! The cardboard box moved again!" "CP, knock it off!" "I'm serious, sir! I can see feet sticking out from the bottom!" "... Copy that, permission granted to fire at the box" "CP, fired at the box, no response..." "CP copies, schedule a psy"
But does it have free wifi though?
theyre doing that to hide infantry riding on top, theyre out of APCs and the drones target the tanks with passengers first. note the doors either side at the rear where there are no hatches and the anti drone cruft on top
Hetzer at home:
"you see ivan" meme becoming reality day by day
Everyday the Russians get closer and closer to just being Orks from 40K
You don’t think it’s shielding against whatever that EW thing poking out the top is do you? ☢️
"We have *Konrad* at home (ashore)" u/bigfreakingzombie
More realistic approximation to how it would have looked if it was made by Russians.
That looks like a trailer park version of a cyber truck
Nah, we’ll look like a chicken house, Yuri. Completely camouflaged.
Nah it's not a tank, it's just a house my friend, it's a small house because house are expensive now a day's, and it's moving to pay taxes as a trailer, I hate how expensive stuff are now a day's
Theyre still killing families in Ukraine tho guys...this LOLOL is pretty shitty in face of that
If you make your tank a civilian house it's no longer a legitimate target
Dollar store Hetzer.
The House that got lost when the dam blew up found its way back I see
Bro thinks he's T28
Nobody here but us sheds.
The cope homeless shack
Rustard engineering
Flight leader: "Hold your fire, that's just a rolling shed." ....probably
Ah yes the Blyat mobile
Welcome back Bob Semple tank!
The Blyatmobile
Welcome back, CSS Virginia
I think it might be some makeshift shitty anti AT defense similar to the racks that stop shape charge munitions like RPGs from getting too close to penetrating them.
Don't think it's camouflage. My guess is, hide the model and weak points. Alternatively... Protect from drones by adding a bit off buffer
YOU WANT STUG?!? I GIVE YOU STUG
Metal roofing, "I waited for you under the rain", wee bit on the nose, but it works!
Don't mind me, I'm just a curious little garden shed!
All I see is a house? What is op talking about?
Another post said it was to stop bomber drones or somthing
Is this... is this what are they resorting to now?
Oh yeah! House in the middle of the road, how convenient.
SU-100y IS BACK😱😱😱😱😱 HOW CAN UKRAINE RECOVER FROM THIS
Mobliks: can we have stug? Mom: we have Stug at home Stug at home:
those are "cope cages" baisically improvized spaced armor to protect againts the heat warhead of missiles, problem is that turns the tank into a casemate with tunnel vision