Russia and Ukraine have turned to improvised armor solutions to give their tanks extra protection. But Moscow, in recent weeks, appears to have taken this a step further with an innovation. Its new ...

Russia’s bizarre “turtle tank” died the way it lived: encased in an awkward metal shell that prevented its turret from rotating and surely hindered its mobility. Just a day or so after the modified ...

The turtle is not exactly the most ferocious of reptiles, and so calling a tank a "turtle" doesn't seem like it would inspire fear in the hearts of your enemies on a battlefield. Which is why it's not ...

Russia’s mine-clearing turtle tanks continue to evolve. But not fast enough to save them from predation—by Ukraine’s increasingly dangerous first-person-view drones and other heavy munitions. A turtle ...

Soldiers from the 413th Regiment of the Drone Forces Raid struck a Russian "tank-turtle" on one of the hottest sectors of the front. This was reported by a servicemember of the 413th Regiment of the ...

In a brief, violent sequence captured on video in 2024, a Ukrainian first-person-view drone dived through an open hatch of a Russian "turtle tank" near Bakhmut and detonated inside, destroying the ...

IN LATE 2021 Russia began welding metal cages over the turrets of its tanks, in an attempt to protect them from attack. The cages proved ineffective—some Western analysts jokingly dubbed them ...

A Russian military vehicle whose unconventional adaptation has earned it the nickname of "turtle tank" features in a video purportedly going behind enemy lines in eastern Ukraine. However, in posting ...

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The Ukraine war is doing for the evolution of weapons and tactics in modern war what conflicts like the Spanish Civil War did in the previous century. New ideas and methods of attacks are being ...

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