Russia's Turtle Tanks 🐢

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  • Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
  • 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
    @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +38

    Check out our accompanying article for this video here -
    armourersbench.com/2024/04/28/tsar-mangal-return-of-the-turtle-tanks/ thanks for watching!

  • @MusicAutomation
    @MusicAutomation Місяць тому +2746

    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
      @calamity4392 Місяць тому +95

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

    • @zoverawizo7476
      @zoverawizo7476 Місяць тому +52

      And then knife fights

    • @refi350
      @refi350 Місяць тому

      You mean sword fights?​@@zoverawizo7476

    • @naphackDT
      @naphackDT Місяць тому +234

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

    • @fenrirgg
      @fenrirgg Місяць тому +40

      Battering ram return.

  • @danwest3825
    @danwest3825 Місяць тому +2093

    "Assault Garages" is brilliant

    • @quartercast
      @quartercast Місяць тому +9

      Assault Carriage?

    • @bobbygoestoabyss6624
      @bobbygoestoabyss6624 Місяць тому +80

      I like Blyatmobile

    • @RichardWagner-hi4zn
      @RichardWagner-hi4zn Місяць тому +20

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

    • @user-ut6qk9iz8k
      @user-ut6qk9iz8k Місяць тому +10

      In russian news channels it was called "Tsar grill"

    • @Grom84
      @Grom84 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @kentaylor2416
    @kentaylor2416 Місяць тому +260

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

  • @Knightmare919
    @Knightmare919 Місяць тому +546

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

    • @adisura9904
      @adisura9904 29 днів тому +21

      Ah a man of culture

    • @grenadier2980
      @grenadier2980 28 днів тому

      Basically they made ghetto stugs.

    • @emil7336
      @emil7336 27 днів тому

      What’s a stug?

    • @cyacyi779
      @cyacyi779 26 днів тому

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

    • @Jay2Breezy-eh3lk
      @Jay2Breezy-eh3lk 26 днів тому +12

      @@emil7336a good tank

  • @YozhikNagibator5162
    @YozhikNagibator5162 Місяць тому +4101

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

    • @vadimanreev4585
      @vadimanreev4585 Місяць тому +342

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

    • @modulblok-e3168
      @modulblok-e3168 Місяць тому +52

      And shofels 😂

    • @keonliller_2287
      @keonliller_2287 Місяць тому +88

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

    • @spyral00
      @spyral00 Місяць тому +52

      broke ass war... reality is always boring

    • @Freedom_Half_Off
      @Freedom_Half_Off Місяць тому +91

      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
    @bestopinion9257 Місяць тому +3267

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

    • @PedroFerreira-ze5yp
      @PedroFerreira-ze5yp Місяць тому +70

      and the trash bin

    • @NandiCollector
      @NandiCollector Місяць тому +24

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @784563
      @784563 Місяць тому +136

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

    • @dannmarceau9743
      @dannmarceau9743 Місяць тому +2

      😆

    • @dreykush9554
      @dreykush9554 Місяць тому +23

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

  • @CountYulith
    @CountYulith Місяць тому +159

    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
      @rrai1999 26 днів тому +5

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

    • @darkstonefire
      @darkstonefire 25 днів тому +2

      Chains are somewhat similar to some Merkavas?

    • @gabrielc4136
      @gabrielc4136 24 дні тому

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

    • @maksim82tallin
      @maksim82tallin 17 днів тому +4

      @@rrai1999 its all done for the purpose of spreading the cumulative beam of the explosion. if drone explodes 1,5 meters away from main armor sheet - cumulative beam could be spreaded enough to not to penetrate it

    • @JanskiPolanski
      @JanskiPolanski 15 днів тому

      Brilliant?
      Dude this is a completely meaningless choice like choosing a last meal.
      Only meant to pacify the culprit.
      They know that they got the choice between death or death with an extra chainmail dangling above them.

  • @user-ii2ck7to3d
    @user-ii2ck7to3d Місяць тому +62

    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
      @Vadik122 23 дні тому +5

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

    • @CaseyC-bg4bb
      @CaseyC-bg4bb 12 днів тому +3

      Except most of the things you mentioned only start happening when somebody is desperate. So it does start with polished helmets and new equipment

  • @user-os5uk5nc4z
    @user-os5uk5nc4z Місяць тому +819

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

    • @TheNefastor
      @TheNefastor Місяць тому +37

      It's got that Minecraft geometry :D

    • @casualsleepingdragon8501
      @casualsleepingdragon8501 Місяць тому +19

      Ps1 tank

    • @voxelamateur
      @voxelamateur Місяць тому +14

      low-poly vehicles appear more futuristic

    • @TheNefastor
      @TheNefastor Місяць тому +4

      @@voxelamateur yeah like the Cybertruck 😜

    • @RatDad69
      @RatDad69 Місяць тому

      Want to like can't... 420 likes

  • @kevinfernandez6532
    @kevinfernandez6532 Місяць тому +870

    The Tesla Cyber Tank is here.

    • @decus9544
      @decus9544 Місяць тому +62

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

    • @TornadoCAN99
      @TornadoCAN99 Місяць тому

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

    • @ASH9366
      @ASH9366 Місяць тому +12

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

    • @frogturtle
      @frogturtle Місяць тому +7

      looks better than the truck!

    • @falcone5287
      @falcone5287 Місяць тому +2

      Powered by electricity)

  • @Spookyfam
    @Spookyfam Місяць тому +243

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

    • @MattSF23
      @MattSF23 Місяць тому +3

      not Ferdinand the Bull? 🤔

    • @CrizzyEyes
      @CrizzyEyes Місяць тому +17

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

    • @333_studios
      @333_studios 29 днів тому +10

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

    • @silveresquire
      @silveresquire 29 днів тому +1

      My favorite tank in warthunder

    • @Kaarna5
      @Kaarna5 28 днів тому +4

      @@silveresquire Warthunder is trash

  • @user-vx8fk9pc4z
    @user-vx8fk9pc4z Місяць тому +42

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

  • @christianbliss8944
    @christianbliss8944 Місяць тому +818

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

    • @MangaGamify
      @MangaGamify Місяць тому +6

      Some beads were pulled out fresh from up there

    • @WingsOfADream1
      @WingsOfADream1 Місяць тому +4

      hanging chain armor is super commonplace...

    • @uncle7162
      @uncle7162 Місяць тому +3

      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
      @D-Z321 Місяць тому +10

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

    • @user-tj4ly8yk1f
      @user-tj4ly8yk1f Місяць тому +5

      Open your mind, man... 🌠🚬

  • @haroldb1856
    @haroldb1856 Місяць тому +917

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

    • @eliannafreely5725
      @eliannafreely5725 Місяць тому +50

      My hat to you, sir.

    • @vanjamenadzer
      @vanjamenadzer Місяць тому +10

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

    • @AdeWhite
      @AdeWhite Місяць тому +18

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

    • @anchorread68
      @anchorread68 Місяць тому +5

      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
      @zacherysaucier6747 29 днів тому +1

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

  • @NeonKnight777
    @NeonKnight777 Місяць тому +84

    Welcome back, A7V😊

    • @atomf9143
      @atomf9143 Місяць тому +4

      Underrated comment.

    • @Marcuscrixus
      @Marcuscrixus Місяць тому +2

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

    • @karlmonet
      @karlmonet 29 днів тому

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

    • @scottmorley7738
      @scottmorley7738 26 днів тому

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

  • @imchris5000
    @imchris5000 Місяць тому +111

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

    • @dranoelarios4788
      @dranoelarios4788 Місяць тому +11

      Spaced armour has been around a while

    • @dangersnail5839
      @dangersnail5839 Місяць тому +22

      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
      @imchris5000 Місяць тому +24

      @@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
      @Jartran72 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @ThePerson-dg6bq
      @ThePerson-dg6bq Місяць тому +5

      @@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
    @afx88lexx Місяць тому +1197

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

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +198

      I can hear the montage music now.

    • @afx88lexx
      @afx88lexx Місяць тому +47

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

    • @bikechainmic
      @bikechainmic Місяць тому +24

      @@TheArmourersBench I just hear the Benny Hill theme!

    • @JoeBlow-wr5em
      @JoeBlow-wr5em Місяць тому +29

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

    • @krispypriest5116
      @krispypriest5116 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @zech007
    @zech007 Місяць тому +749

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

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Місяць тому +24

      Hahahaha! Yes!

    • @SCH292
      @SCH292 Місяць тому

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

    • @SCH292
      @SCH292 Місяць тому

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

    • @bakker071
      @bakker071 Місяць тому +13

      11

    • @ivankrylov6270
      @ivankrylov6270 Місяць тому +49

      WOOLOOLOO

  • @NoPantsBaby
    @NoPantsBaby 29 днів тому +23

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

  • @rogue5738
    @rogue5738 Місяць тому +46

    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
      @jackshadowsh1991 Місяць тому

      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...

    • @ProstoSloupok
      @ProstoSloupok 12 днів тому

      Як показує практика війни: такі черепашки не настільки сильно спасають від дронів. Да, на те щоб знищити дроном такий танк треба трошки витратитись більше.
      Але по факту це дуже дивне рішення:)

    • @jackshadowsh1991
      @jackshadowsh1991 11 днів тому

      @@ProstoSloupok your Russian is pretty funky, so I'm not sure if DeepL translated it into German perfectly, but as the experience of war shows, even these funny tanks are far more effective than our tanks, and they are still much cheaper.

    • @ProstoSloupok
      @ProstoSloupok 11 днів тому

      @@jackshadowsh1991 це не російська)
      Ефективніше? Сумнівно. Дуже велике нагромадження маси на гусениці, що впливає на швидкість. Плюс все ще досить сильно відкрита задня частина танку. Скільки фпв треба, щоб вибити такий танк? Думаю десь 5 максимум.
      Це якщо тільки фпв. Якщо використовувати РПГ, можна знищити ще дешевше.

    • @jackshadowsh1991
      @jackshadowsh1991 11 днів тому

      @@ProstoSloupok how does that invalidate my statement?

  • @wolfsmaul-ger8318
    @wolfsmaul-ger8318 Місяць тому +389

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

    • @organickevinlondon
      @organickevinlondon Місяць тому +38

      it really does look like a WW1 German A7V tank.

    • @SantidelasNieves
      @SantidelasNieves Місяць тому +2

      Alguna cosas nunca cambian. Este es un ariete moderno

    • @wolfsmaul-ger8318
      @wolfsmaul-ger8318 Місяць тому +2

      @@SantidelasNieves cierto. los problemas modernos requieren soluciones antiguas

    • @vadimanreev4585
      @vadimanreev4585 Місяць тому

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

    • @tnmrvc
      @tnmrvc Місяць тому +6

      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.

  • @SuperTechnikfreaky
    @SuperTechnikfreaky Місяць тому +268

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

    • @PolPot-ef1qq
      @PolPot-ef1qq Місяць тому +3

      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
      @johnnybooo6982 28 днів тому +1

      Хорош ))

    • @joules_sw
      @joules_sw 28 днів тому

      $2000 Homestudio with garage on Tamarindo Costa Rica

    • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists
      @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 27 днів тому

      @@PolPot-ef1qq bla bla bla

    • @user-yp6jf4hf2q
      @user-yp6jf4hf2q 19 днів тому

      41-45

  • @GatecrasherSlim
    @GatecrasherSlim Місяць тому +20

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

  • @Chuck-mm2yp
    @Chuck-mm2yp Місяць тому +40

    Amazing how humans adapt fast during war

    • @Kaarna5
      @Kaarna5 28 днів тому +9

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

    • @AmoreG94
      @AmoreG94 28 днів тому

      @@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
      @waylingtons 27 днів тому +1

      😂😂😂.
      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
      @lred1383 27 днів тому

      ​@@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
      @Piratulus 25 днів тому +3

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

  • @WanderlustZero
    @WanderlustZero Місяць тому +337

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

    • @amai2307
      @amai2307 Місяць тому +36

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

    • @renamon303
      @renamon303 Місяць тому +19

      @@amai2307 how abaut WOMBO COMBO purple outside red inside

    • @amai2307
      @amai2307 Місяць тому +7

      @@renamon303 sounds like a plan.

    • @etonemoilogin
      @etonemoilogin Місяць тому +5

      sparco stickers will help

    • @RichardWagner-hi4zn
      @RichardWagner-hi4zn Місяць тому

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

  • @oddlypositive3602
    @oddlypositive3602 Місяць тому +43

    The next Warthunder update is going to be wild.

  • @danielpercent5434
    @danielpercent5434 Місяць тому +26

    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
      @Mary-bs3rq 25 днів тому

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

  • @joshuashackleford739
    @joshuashackleford739 Місяць тому +16

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

  • @rokinz3270
    @rokinz3270 Місяць тому +258

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

    • @sauce1542
      @sauce1542 Місяць тому

      Reject modernity embace STUG

    • @nicoincognito2160
      @nicoincognito2160 Місяць тому +22

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

    • @IRONHIDE_Live
      @IRONHIDE_Live Місяць тому +1

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

    • @i_Love_Curry
      @i_Love_Curry Місяць тому +3

      It's a war, anything workable is possible.

    • @CarmineKar98K
      @CarmineKar98K Місяць тому

      Those are some ugly assault guns brother

  • @o.00.o74
    @o.00.o74 Місяць тому +391

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

    • @rhetorical1488
      @rhetorical1488 Місяць тому +33

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

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Місяць тому +7

      It's got an expresso machine

    • @neilbrown2948
      @neilbrown2948 Місяць тому +10

      shy turtle

    • @websitemartian
      @websitemartian Місяць тому +2

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

    • @DonMarquez-wj7ir
      @DonMarquez-wj7ir Місяць тому +2

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

  • @dragonlord4643
    @dragonlord4643 Місяць тому +12

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

  • @towmissile
    @towmissile Місяць тому +5

    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.

  • @1s3ngr1m
    @1s3ngr1m Місяць тому +174

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

    • @UdumbaraMusic
      @UdumbaraMusic Місяць тому +8

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

    • @tigerboy977
      @tigerboy977 Місяць тому +16

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

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 Місяць тому +9

      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
      @pessien8474 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @haliaeetus8221
      @haliaeetus8221 Місяць тому +10

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

  • @DisorderInOrder
    @DisorderInOrder Місяць тому +78

    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
      @jotr.9786 Місяць тому +19

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

    • @noii1524
      @noii1524 Місяць тому

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

    • @park1776
      @park1776 Місяць тому +21

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

    • @user-wb7ez9ud4p
      @user-wb7ez9ud4p 29 днів тому

      @@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
      @mcarlinod 29 днів тому +11

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

  • @jajaboss
    @jajaboss Місяць тому +5

    60 years of evolution and we got tank destroyer again LOL

  • @olliefoxx7165
    @olliefoxx7165 Місяць тому +586

    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
      @TheBooban Місяць тому +48

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

    • @jimjohnson3410
      @jimjohnson3410 Місяць тому +40

      @@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
      @Exduper808 Місяць тому +10

      Penal battalion members?

    • @Warren_Peace
      @Warren_Peace Місяць тому +51

      ​@@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
      @1337user Місяць тому +10

      I heard turtle tank has just a driver 😮

  • @sirmattington4200
    @sirmattington4200 Місяць тому +2

    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.

  • @michaelangelosimon4489
    @michaelangelosimon4489 29 днів тому +2

    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.

  • @Broadsword999
    @Broadsword999 Місяць тому +412

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

    • @manuelcaldicot852
      @manuelcaldicot852 Місяць тому +8

      😂😂😂si

    • @willhall4037
      @willhall4037 Місяць тому +10

      So nostalgic, so world war two British Funnies!

    • @TheGoodguy68
      @TheGoodguy68 Місяць тому +5

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

    • @Thousand_yard_King
      @Thousand_yard_King Місяць тому +5

      That way they can work on it anywhere they are lol

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 Місяць тому +8

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

  • @ironkcirb285
    @ironkcirb285 Місяць тому +158

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

  •  6 днів тому

    Tanks for this update.

  • @rodericklenz5030
    @rodericklenz5030 23 дні тому +1

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

  • @johnallen8680
    @johnallen8680 Місяць тому +90

    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
      @lightworker2956 Місяць тому +10

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

    • @ayaxgarcia8847
      @ayaxgarcia8847 Місяць тому

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

    • @peppapig9833
      @peppapig9833 Місяць тому

      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
      @user-mz1pq7jg8w 29 днів тому

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

    • @justaguycalledjosh
      @justaguycalledjosh 29 днів тому

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

  • @mickmacgonigle5021
    @mickmacgonigle5021 Місяць тому +222

    It's obviously a garden shed equipped with shovels

    • @GhostScout42
      @GhostScout42 Місяць тому

      this is an industrial washing machine the Russians were looting

    • @kendo2377
      @kendo2377 Місяць тому +10

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

    • @doktorzasinuse
      @doktorzasinuse Місяць тому

      Solution = RC car 🚗

    • @Vasya6626.
      @Vasya6626. Місяць тому

      Сука расмешил😅😅😅😅

    • @zvonoc-80
      @zvonoc-80 Місяць тому

      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

  • @redTanto
    @redTanto Місяць тому +3

    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.

  • @JeanLucCaptain
    @JeanLucCaptain 28 днів тому

    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.

  • @JKSSubstandard
    @JKSSubstandard Місяць тому +149

    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
      @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +30

      Yes indeed, that's my read on this.

    • @MrMturko44
      @MrMturko44 Місяць тому +23

      hit second vehicle? :D

    • @JKSSubstandard
      @JKSSubstandard Місяць тому +22

      @@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
      @leksus4304 Місяць тому +5

      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
      @MrJ0lly Місяць тому +3

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

  • @bluemanxd4339
    @bluemanxd4339 Місяць тому +232

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

    • @kharkanas6779
      @kharkanas6779 Місяць тому +6

      😅

    • @user-zf4uj2zc3h
      @user-zf4uj2zc3h Місяць тому +1

      Сарай делает пиу пиу и ты бежишь прятаться в подвал

    • @jeorgedavid3239
      @jeorgedavid3239 Місяць тому

      😂

    • @vanjamenadzer
      @vanjamenadzer Місяць тому +6

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

    • @DeltaEchoGolf
      @DeltaEchoGolf Місяць тому

      @@vanjamenadzer Jan Zizka.

  • @MalaysiaBarista
    @MalaysiaBarista 3 дні тому

    The looks reminds me of a medival battering ram . It seems the basic design was effective back then, and it is still effective now .

  • @1183newman
    @1183newman Місяць тому +1

    actually quite good camouflage if the tank is stationary.

  • @brianfreeman8290
    @brianfreeman8290 Місяць тому +115

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

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +14

      Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching.

    • @Puschit1
      @Puschit1 Місяць тому +3

      The A-Team montage music would fit, though.

    • @Kniazz
      @Kniazz Місяць тому

      Yep, same!

  • @jimjones9239
    @jimjones9239 Місяць тому +195

    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
      @Knyazevv Місяць тому +6

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

    • @physetermacrocephalus2209
      @physetermacrocephalus2209 Місяць тому +20

      ​@@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
      @vanjamenadzer Місяць тому +18

      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
      @brothercoconut6599 Місяць тому +1

      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
      @dzonikg28 Місяць тому +17

      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

  • @KillahZomby
    @KillahZomby Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @raoultittel
    @raoultittel Місяць тому

    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

  • @codyphillips1821
    @codyphillips1821 Місяць тому +61

    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
      @FelipeCH-fn7sc Місяць тому +6

      So far...has not worked to well

    • @folx2733
      @folx2733 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @Kawaiijihad
      @Kawaiijihad Місяць тому +1

      Honestly it's not that great it just looks funny

    • @KABKAKIy_KAPATEJI_DOP
      @KABKAKIy_KAPATEJI_DOP Місяць тому +3

      ​@@FelipeCH-fn7sc😂😂ukr bot, ok

    • @FelipeCH-fn7sc
      @FelipeCH-fn7sc 29 днів тому

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

  • @404dne
    @404dne Місяць тому +263

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

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +53

      Exactly. Thanks for watching.

    • @maxkummel1074
      @maxkummel1074 Місяць тому +5

      Wouldn't a net over the Tank also work?

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 Місяць тому +5

      @@TheArmourersBenchGood comment.

    • @ZETA14.88
      @ZETA14.88 Місяць тому +42

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

    • @mickg7299
      @mickg7299 Місяць тому +10

      Good example of the KISS principle.

  • @fabiospasiano9885
    @fabiospasiano9885 28 днів тому

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

  • @edwardprime278
    @edwardprime278 Місяць тому +1

    Next will be a giant trojan horse with square wheels

  • @Amplar2
    @Amplar2 Місяць тому +42

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

  • @adriannv2562
    @adriannv2562 Місяць тому +36

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

  • @Umbator
    @Umbator Місяць тому

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

  • @I...I___I__I.I___I_.I.I
    @I...I___I__I.I___I_.I.I Місяць тому +1

    It's really interesting how warfare evolves

  • @masterkaljami6822
    @masterkaljami6822 Місяць тому +239

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

    • @DonMarquez-wj7ir
      @DonMarquez-wj7ir Місяць тому

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

    • @mrhot9101
      @mrhot9101 Місяць тому +56

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

    • @backpackpepelon3867
      @backpackpepelon3867 Місяць тому +69

      ​@@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
      @NJ-wb1cz Місяць тому +11

      ​@@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
      @NJ-wb1cz Місяць тому +26

      ​@@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

  • @marcjan5938
    @marcjan5938 Місяць тому +36

    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
      @LS-jv9hp Місяць тому

      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
      @jasondaveries9716 Місяць тому +1

      Lmao

    • @jotr.9786
      @jotr.9786 Місяць тому +11

      any garage now will be looked upon with suspicion

    • @atomf9143
      @atomf9143 Місяць тому +2

      “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…”

  • @francisboaz5530
    @francisboaz5530 Місяць тому +1

    Ingeniously done

  • @maxmackinlay618
    @maxmackinlay618 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @topcat8804
    @topcat8804 Місяць тому +116

    Looks like something Leonardo da Vinci might design

    • @brianboye8025
      @brianboye8025 Місяць тому +8

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

    • @DonMarquez-wj7ir
      @DonMarquez-wj7ir Місяць тому +1

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

    • @hedleylamarr7283
      @hedleylamarr7283 Місяць тому

      This is shit😂😂

  • @Deiphobuzz
    @Deiphobuzz 6 днів тому

    The bead curtains is what gives it away. These are cruisers, imagine the amount of gheysecks that happens inside..

  • @Rob_Enhoud
    @Rob_Enhoud Місяць тому +1

    First there was the Cope Cage, now we have the Cope Coop

  • @rainnelmaclang4803
    @rainnelmaclang4803 Місяць тому +71

    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
      @thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481 Місяць тому +5

      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
      @Alblaka Місяць тому +36

      @@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
      @thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481 Місяць тому +5

      @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
      @adamlesandrini312 Місяць тому

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

    • @hornmonk3zit
      @hornmonk3zit Місяць тому +10

      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.

  • @Cplblue
    @Cplblue Місяць тому +234

    "Turtle tank mk2" 😂

    • @Rick8191-tv8pg
      @Rick8191-tv8pg Місяць тому

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

    • @SRB_PL
      @SRB_PL Місяць тому +8

      Tutel

    • @dion8962
      @dion8962 Місяць тому +1

      Mk3

    • @kindlingking
      @kindlingking Місяць тому +2

      Tsarevich Mangal

  • @Morisu-Chan
    @Morisu-Chan Місяць тому +8

    The Tutel is back in another form XD

  • @ehrenyoav3040
    @ehrenyoav3040 16 днів тому

    Now instead of one drone you need two, one with a mine to dismantle the upper structure and the other with the shaped charge

  • @doodskie999
    @doodskie999 Місяць тому +190

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

    • @user-xp5id1kh4r
      @user-xp5id1kh4r Місяць тому +5

      ctrlC+ctrlV

    • @anthonyhulse1248
      @anthonyhulse1248 Місяць тому +20

      We’re all laughing at Ruzzia.

    • @saucy743
      @saucy743 Місяць тому +63

      ​@@anthonyhulse1248 more like seething

    • @moscuadelendaest
      @moscuadelendaest Місяць тому +12

      @@saucy743 cry harder 😂🤣😂🤣😂

    • @Tomi-sc7dv
      @Tomi-sc7dv Місяць тому +41

      @@anthonyhulse1248 And the banderites are all dying.

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 Місяць тому +42

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

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  Місяць тому +1

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

  • @powersource1988
    @powersource1988 24 дні тому

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

  • @onetruecharlatan
    @onetruecharlatan Місяць тому +139

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

    • @JelMain
      @JelMain Місяць тому +4

      Hm. A T-72 mated with a caravan.

    • @saucy743
      @saucy743 Місяць тому +5

      He stole James May's shed

  • @SpliffMcInerny-rv5my
    @SpliffMcInerny-rv5my Місяць тому

    They seem awkward and slower and with hindered visibility-but then, so did the ironclads Monitor and the Merrimac, and look what they eventually gave rise to.

  • @HappyAspid
    @HappyAspid Місяць тому +83

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

    • @giogio51592
      @giogio51592 Місяць тому +16

      AND the Tzar Bomba

    • @SmartassX1
      @SmartassX1 Місяць тому +4

      There was also a Tzar Tank in the 1920s.

    • @HappyAspid
      @HappyAspid Місяць тому +5

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

    • @SmartassX1
      @SmartassX1 Місяць тому +2

      @@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
      @user-ex9ex2hs5k Місяць тому

      Also Tzar = King

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt Місяць тому +16

    We referred to such modifications as "field expediency".

  • @miked8227
    @miked8227 Місяць тому

    It could use some shutters and rain gutters for updates.

  • @andrecook4268
    @andrecook4268 Місяць тому

    Finally a Tank I think I can build a scale version of!

  • @user-oc3im9fe9q
    @user-oc3im9fe9q Місяць тому +93

    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
      @superspies32 Місяць тому +43

      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
      @leonardwei3914 Місяць тому +12

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

    • @Extra-Celestial7
      @Extra-Celestial7 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@superspies32And merkavas are still getting smoked anyway.

    • @mekal177
      @mekal177 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@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

    • @p.k.blazingsun
      @p.k.blazingsun Місяць тому

      @Shinshocks555 what draft?

  • @AB1Vampire
    @AB1Vampire Місяць тому +130

    Damn thing looks Medieval.

    • @PedroFerreira-ze5yp
      @PedroFerreira-ze5yp Місяць тому +5

      it is...

    • @vanjamenadzer
      @vanjamenadzer Місяць тому +15

      @@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
      @JayJay-xy5ch Місяць тому

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

    • @drscopeify
      @drscopeify Місяць тому

      @@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
      @_lika_dedicated_4105 Місяць тому +2

      Age of impires Стенобитное орудие 😅

  • @Puffballs-en2sk
    @Puffballs-en2sk 12 днів тому

    A net can work too depending on the type of drone feel like something a youtuber would make for content

  • @dabbingraccoons6416
    @dabbingraccoons6416 Місяць тому

    This war has created very cool improvised weapons and such.

  • @illomens2766
    @illomens2766 Місяць тому +119

    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
      @ttpechon2535 Місяць тому +27

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

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 Місяць тому +28

      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
      @chaosXP3RT Місяць тому

      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
      @angryralphs2516 Місяць тому +12

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

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 Місяць тому +19

      @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.

  • @racialconsciousness6996
    @racialconsciousness6996 Місяць тому +64

    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.

    • @--JohnVK--
      @--JohnVK-- Місяць тому +5

      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
      @nicolas2419 Місяць тому

      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
      @racialconsciousness6996 Місяць тому +35

      @@--JohnVK-- -- 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
      @racialconsciousness6996 Місяць тому +23

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

    • @--JohnVK--
      @--JohnVK-- Місяць тому +3

      @@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...

  • @andrewmccaffrey9381
    @andrewmccaffrey9381 Місяць тому

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

  • @samuels1123
    @samuels1123 Місяць тому

    It is still sheet metal, which makes it vulnerable to high speed munition, though also I've been curious about the viability for a kind of drone-mine,
    a drone landing in front of the target vehicle while carrying charge, then acting as remote or impact explosive.

  • @prfwrx2497
    @prfwrx2497 Місяць тому +86

    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
      @NOBODY754 Місяць тому +24

      It's just against drones

    • @VyantQuijt
      @VyantQuijt Місяць тому +33

      ​@@NOBODY754drones carrying warheads though

    • @julmdamaslefttoe3559
      @julmdamaslefttoe3559 Місяць тому +10

      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.

    • @--JohnVK--
      @--JohnVK-- Місяць тому +5

      @@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
      @Qwerty-jy9mj Місяць тому +2

      Everybody knows

  • @ZappyOh
    @ZappyOh Місяць тому +132

    Turtle Tank needs a theme song :)

    • @mhas9110
      @mhas9110 Місяць тому +30

      Teenage mutant Russian turtle 😂

    • @FedPut
      @FedPut Місяць тому +21

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

    • @free_at_last8141
      @free_at_last8141 Місяць тому +7

      Blyat Man hardbass.

    • @fourtysix4646
      @fourtysix4646 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @jerryku7185
      @jerryku7185 Місяць тому +5

      The Flintstones?

  • @TheSphongleface
    @TheSphongleface 4 дні тому

    The amazing thing is that nobody has built an actual tanky tank yet that can actually block all attacks.

  • @kyrisjohnson8713
    @kyrisjohnson8713 Місяць тому

    SPG or the A7V has made a come back its time to roll out the Great war era tanks once more.

  • @weybye91
    @weybye91 Місяць тому +136

    Rome called, they want their batteringram design back

    • @anselmdanker9519
      @anselmdanker9519 Місяць тому +15

      😂😂😂😂 Emperor Nero is not amused.

    • @David-ng7cr
      @David-ng7cr Місяць тому

      😅😂😅😂😅😂

    • @davidkermes376
      @davidkermes376 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @kindlingking
      @kindlingking Місяць тому

      Brother, we are the (third) Rome

    • @drscopeify
      @drscopeify Місяць тому

      @@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.

  • @michaellanger5671
    @michaellanger5671 Місяць тому +15

    Ferdinand was a German Tank Hunter that looks somewhat boxy too

  • @casualsleepingdragon8501
    @casualsleepingdragon8501 Місяць тому +1

    It's cleary meant to tactically carry their garden tools

  • @SuperSk1llz
    @SuperSk1llz 27 днів тому +1

    The irregularity of design could also be an attempt to thwart AI analysis of satellite and drone reconnaissance imagery.

  • @tvgerbil1984
    @tvgerbil1984 Місяць тому +14

    They managed to change a MBT into an assault gun. The turret couldn't turn much anymore.