The 'Blyatmobile' - The Russian Turtle Tank
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
- During a recent Russian operation near Krasnohorivka the so-called 'Turtle Tank' made its first appearance. Widely ridiculed online, Russian engineers built shell which essentially encased a tank in a trapezoidal steel structure, giving the vehicle the look of a shed on tracks.
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16/4/24 Update - The Turtle Tank returns!
Video of a similar tank, either a rebuild or another vehicle, has been shared. I've added it to the accompanying article - armourersbench.com/2024/04/14/russian-blyatmobile-the-turtle-tank/
This tank was not destroyed and is still serving well. On April 17 there are new videos with him.
@@Vitamin_71 it's either a rebuild of the earlier tank or a new tank as the shell is quite different.
@@TheArmourersBench The first tank was the T-72. His turret was faulty and he could not turn it, so he was used as a prototype, he completed the assigned tasks and was abandoned in the hangar later, he was not destroyed on the battlefield. Apparently they liked this idea and made another one.
@Vitamin_71 was the second vehicle's turret damaged too because the newer version is completely enclosed now
@@TheArmourersBench I don't know for sure, but maybe it is.
i love how "cope cage" has become an acceptable semi-technical term
I laughed out loud the first time a presenter from The Tank Museum started talking about cope cages.
We just need to think of a good bacronym to make it official:
Customizable Overhead Protection Extension?
have to accept it as technical terms tbh
Construction is too different from "slat armor"
@@fnorgen that's easy to remember, just change Extension to Equipment and we're in military terminology 😅
It’s like how meme slang has become part of the vocabulary of younger generations.
Friendship with situational awareness ended.
Drone protection is now my best friend.
Nah you just need competent and active air defense, some electronic warfare, as well as your own drones, basically just a better army than Russia’s. This is an adaptation for survival not combat, by men living every day in a stagnant front under the threat of small drones, it might be a good answer for them, but only because their nation and army has failed them extensively, and so they lack defense by supporting units and clearly leadership who know how to properly employ them as armored units.
@@fromthefire4176 yeah, no. Your solution is american solution. Overegineered and overpriced.
Why bother with high tech ehen few metal sheets does the trick?
@@fromthefire4176 Russia has electronic warfare and its own drones. They dont give 100% protection. If such magical solutions exist - USA very reluctant to give them to the ukraine. Propably because they dont have them.
@@fromthefire4176 "basically just a better army than Russia’s."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Oh dear gods, are you for real?
Why do you think the leaked reports from the French army recently openly stated the Russian army is now the new gold standard, best in the world, what everyone else needs to aspire towards.
Russia spent all of 2022 at HUGE numerical disadvantage, most or all of 2023 at a less extreme numerical disadvantage, and they're still pulling killratios of somewhere between 10 to 1 and 40 to 1.
Seriously, go study the Ukraine Kherson offensive for an epic showing of exactly how superior the Russian army has shown itself.
55 thousand Ukraine troops attacked.
5+3(supporting, the ones that did the counter river crossing and cut the Ukraine troops off) thousand Russian troops defended.
A few weeks later, there are 31 thousand Ukraine KIAs and as a Ukraine officer of one unit swore near a camera crew, "not a single soldier remain uninjured".
Russian losses? Less than 200 KIA.
And if the weather had not turned bad in the middle of the battle, Russia might have managed to exterminate the entire 55 thousand completely.
And those were "the best Nato troops in the world", according to US colonel.
And the Russian military defeated them so utterly that they made complete mockery of Nato-anything.
Go look at the Oskil offensive. 10 thousand Ukraine troops advancing into an area that Russian troops have evacuated 2 weeks earlier, supported by another 10 thousand troops(3 brigades each)(and the advancing troops here, these were the ones where it was utterly amazing how many spoke English with a midwest USA accent, it's like it was an entire US battalion involved or something)...
They took thousands of casualties advancing against NO RESISTANCE.
Then they couldn't even fight on even ground against the 2 Roskvadria companies that had volunteered to stay behind to protect civillians that had been delayed from evacuating. Roskvadria is basically MP militia. They're not serious military units.
They got trashed, but they still caused more than twice the casualties they took.
And then Russia decided that Lyman needed to be held for a while and sent 500 troops there.
At least 7 thousand troops, including at least those 500-1000 yanks, with support from another 7-8 thousand troops, assaulted Lyman for 2 weeks. They lost at least a thousand more KIAs and racked up hordes of destroyed armored vehicles, you know, the ones western media claimed were Russian, despite them having Ukraine camo, guns, electronics, everything.
And then the Russian troops left. Zero KIAs. They had wounded, but all 500 left walking on their own.
It's pathetic. The Ukraine Oskil offensive ended up with around 40% casualties total, probably about half each KIA and WIA, and with supporting troops taking almost as much casualties as the assaulting troops.
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"but only because their nation and army has failed them extensively, and so they lack defense by supporting units and clearly leadership who know how to properly employ them as armored units."
Wow, how frickin clueless can you be? Do you even understand that Russia is the ONLY NATION in the world that has dedicated EW troops?
Or the fact that Russia is neutralizing something like 70-90% of Ukraine drones?
While Ukraine is only neutralising around 25% of Russian drones.
And Russia uses at least 10 times as many drones per day.
Dear gods, how can you be so delusional?
The Russian military has taken around 40k KIAs. PMCs another 2800, ex-convicts another 7500, and ex-DPR/LPR somewhere in the 10 to 30k range.
But Ukraine? The low estimate of their total KIAs, not confirmed like Russian MoD is telling, but TOTAL, is currently somewhere between 900 thousand and 1.6 million. With another 2 million WIAs.
Go look up Angela Merkel's interviews last year. In which she openly admits that the Minsk treaties were nothing but a trick to allow the west to militarise Ukraine for its planned war against Russia.
Go look up minister Schapp bragging about how UK militarised Ukraine for its coming war with Russia since 2014.
Then consider the fact that Russia started the SMO with 100 thousand troops. And during 2022, never had more than 125 thousand troops active against Ukraine.
While Ukraine started 2022 with 700 thousand troops, nearly all of them, as their western trainers bragged about, trained and equipped to the BEST levels Nato can manage, or as two of their trainers bragged, they were the BEST Nato military in the WORLD.
Over 3 thousand tanks, over 9 thousand IFVs, over 12 thousand AFVs, over 500 combat aircraft.
The most empoverished and corrupt nation of Europe. Which in 2013 had a total military of 6 thousand troops and with some effort could scrape together a few dozen tanks and combat aircraft and maybe a hundred IFVs.
The most empoverished nation already 2013, which in 2014 lost 2 of its 3 richest regions, Donbass, Crimea and Kharkov, because they refused to accept the USA/natzi coup, especially considering when it happend, Yanukovich had a popular opinion polling of 70%, the highest ever.
Yeah no, there's exactly zero possibility for Ukraine to conduct such military buildup. And amazingly, USA, UK, Canada, everyone sent billions every year and trained troops.
But hey, you're not allowed to not obey the psychopaths of Washington. Like Georgia right now. They're trying to introduce a law that is a weak copy of a USA law. To get rid of USA and EUs meddling. But instantly, USA and EU calls the law undemocratic and "Russian".
But USA long since has a stronger version of it, why isn't that undemocratic then?
Go home, go to sleep clueless. Oh wait, you're already asleep. Completely unaware of anything that is actually going on around you.
"Friendship with situational awareness ended."
Uh, you do realise that it's pretty easy to put cameras on the outside?
And, you know, Russia is currently producing something like a hundred drones per day, minimum, some sources say far far more, and every single one of those have a camera, most of them even have a thermal imaging camera.
"Quick, Robinski, to the Blyatmobile!"
(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
Blyat man & Robbing 😂
Don’t apologize … you’re doing the lord’s work
@@weswolever7477 Thanks, Wes!
Why are all Russian tankers Polish for some reason?
And there was no Earthly reason for you to have to... 😁
You had the Cope Cage
Now we introduce
The Cope Shed
Cope Cave, thank me later
Blyat tub
With an aerodynamic touch ! Much enhanced, more fast !
1:23 Some calls it "Tsar-mangal" meaning "Imperial grill", as this "cages" on top of tanks called "grills" ("mangals") in ru zone. Never heard it called a blyatmobile in ru segment.
Russian channels claims it is a damaged T-72 that cannot rotate it's tower so they added a layered thin metal to avoid fpv drones and made it into anti-mine support vehicle. As far as i know Tsar-mangal is alive and got a REB-system added to hinder FPV drones even more.
Images posted today suggest they may have rebuilt the shell on top of it or built another...
Some Russians already saw the name blyat-mobile and found it hilarious 🤣 Now it’s in use.
@@Scorp_2 nope, its only ukranian lovest name.
@@Scorp_2 If he speaks Russian, this does not mean that he can and deserves to be called Russian. Not all English speakers are English. A Blyatmobile (correctly spelled with a “d” - blyadmobile) is a car that carries whores - a whore carrier, so those who liked it are definitely not Russians.
@@Scorp_2 никто не называет подобную защиту блятьмобилем. А вот мангалом (грилем) - да
-“Enemy vehicles approaching, we need support!!!”
-“Roger, what are we dealing with here soldier?”
-“it’s a…ah……a fucking *barn shed* with a canon, sir…” 😐
"Mom can I have a Maus?"
"We have a Maus at home!!"
The Maus at home:
Closer to T-28 Doom turtle
Closer to the Hetzer
While this one looks worse, it's a smarter solution, because the Maus was FAAAAR too heavy.
Lmao
But it's rather better then Maus actually
It often calls "the tsar of grills" in ru segment. This tank deserve survivalist medal.
Cope Shed
Cope Barn
@@dukecocko215 _Iew cage? what's that's supposed to mean?
They literally go 'Reject MBT, Return to Tutel'.
Cope Cave
Seethe cage
And it's back on the front after two days of repairs!
some piny roof and artillery trying to stop turtle tank? pff
Well from what i saw, the tank is just used as a infantry carrier, the turret rotation is destroyed, and it was used as a mine clearer. So i guess this is a very good solution to re-use damaged Tanks. The Ukraine front is at this point almost only drones, atgms and artillery taking tanks out, so it doesnt need any turret rotation, good view or speed, because that doesnt help against all of that. But this spaced armor would work perfectly in theory, and in practice it seems to work pretty good.
@@LeroxYT The tanks at the front are mainly there to draw attention, force the enemy into reaction and at best survive.
It doesn't really matter much if they can shoot or not, in comparison to the fire power all the artillery, bomber and co got, a tank is a weak hitter anyway.
@@miriamweller812 yeah thats also true
@@miriamweller812 There were a few armour to armour combat in Ukraine but even those involve only a small column and 1 or 2 ambusher vehicle from the other side so no big tank battles
It ain't stupid if it works😂
does it tho ?
@@user-zk5ty7pq5g Lol, I know there are problems with intelligence in the West, but still... Do you think a grenade will be able to fly through this? in addition, electronic warfare equipment is placed above it, as on the first tank in this video, which perfectly fight drones (in the first video, the tank is obviously abandoned, and the system was turned off, I hope you understood this yourself)
@@_Void_Archive_ those EW systems doesnt work 99% of the time
@@_Void_Archive_ quit drinking vodka please
@@_Void_Archive_ its rather desprate even russian tankers know they are driving death traps
Looks like they went full blown Killdozer with that idea.
I read that the tank was already damaged and could not rotate the turret and so it was shrouded and given the mine clearing job.
... maybe? Putin's hurting for tanks quite badly, though, so it seems strange to waste one in this manner. And what advantage would the shroud give in a purely mine-clearance role?
@@michaelccozens The latest report from the US DoD says that Russia has completely rebuilt it's military strength since before the initial invasion. Reading between the lines, that means a whole bunch of T72s have been replaced with 82s and 90s. Compounded with the massive advances in missile, smart bomb and drone tech the Russians are probably not hurting for anything at the moment. I think these 'field mods' are just that, modifications made with initiatives probably at company level and nothing to do with higher levels of command.
@@michaelccozens They allegedly made 1500 tanks in 2023, how many did ukraine _receive_ ? The tank led a successful attack, how was it wasted? While FPV drones aren't that big of threat to tanks they are one of the leading causes of -cancer- mobility kills, i would assume keeping your lead vehicle mobile is important.
@@Klovaneer Looking into this a bit more I think the truth is they made and renovated 1500 tanks, so there will be a bunch of upgraded T72s and T5/60s knocking about now. Many of those will be used as rear-echelon defence or ad-hoc arty support. Regardless, I suspect the Russian inventory is pretty healthy.
@@michaelccozens
The turtle tank is still in action
It is, well a rebuild or a fresh one at least.
not anymore lol
@@Pentazemin44 lol your mom
@@strafniki1080 mad cope :)
@@Pentazemin44 dw it will be replaced
Reminds me of how they'd try to protect ancient battering rams
During yesterdays attack on Krasnogorivka they used the same or a similar tank again, again leading another armored assault group. The tank survived again, footage can be found on Telegram or Twitter.
Already added it to the accompanying article for this video this morning. Looks like they rebuilt it or built a second.
That tutel straight up tanked incoming fire like a champ.. a sight to behold.
only coping i see is how ukies say they're going to get a quarter of their country back any day now. we're just one more zelenski mansion away from a successful counteroffensive guys!
ok ruski bot
@@Pentazemin44 i live closer to st petersburg florida than st petersburg russia bud
Did you hear!!!? Zelensky JUST bought ANOTHER 9528 trillion peso mansion in Czechloslovakia, looking out over the Adriatic!
Wait until shills for "THE" Ukraine hear about THIS one!
@@Pentazemin44 what an argument hahaha
Do you spend up to 95 percent of your day on twitter and get paid for it?
When the Stug Lyfe chooses you
Or slug
Tank Psychiatrist here: This newest tank is a concrete realization of the role Stugs played, subconsciously, in the German alteration of the Russian super ego.
The advantage of stugs over tanks, was a lower profile, lower engineering requirements and thus lower cost in cash, materials and equipment to manufacture. Allowing for more to be fielded at the expense of combat flexibility.
Sticking this barn on an actual tank gives all the downsides of a stug, with none of the benefits. This isn't even being used as a stug. It's LEADING a tank formation. Not acting as support, or sitting in ambush.
This is more like one of the "funnies" that the allies fielded in WW2. A tank with some mission specific gadgetry stuck on to perform one specialised role during an assault before being sidelined or decommissioned once that single task was completed.
@@Kizron_Kizronsonit's trying to act like a more of a heavy battle tank leading the charge with its armor won't certainly do any good job a dedicated design would do
Classicist: "Hey, a covered ram!"
@@johnd2058 exactly a battering ram
This tank was not destroyed and is still serving well. On April 17 there are new videos with him.
Blyatmobile is a perfect definition I would say, nice safety tote on top.
no, it's a stupid name
@@torquebiker9959 i mean the philipines literally put carboards and wood on their wehicle and it help them from rpgs
@@hart3024
Yeah, APCs are still vulnerable to anti personnel RPGs which the insurgents use. It would be a different matter if they use anti tank rounds, which hopefully is not the case.
In this matter, the main problem of the Russians are the drones which hit them on top, not the front or side, which is the most vulnerable part of the tank. This move to "turtle" the tank makes perfect sense.
One theory is that's it was a troop transport. Tanks now being the preferred ride on assaults, with more than a dozen soldiers often seen sitting on top. The shed being some kind of protection for the soldiers.
I'm the spaced armor club, but the other theory was interesting
It was used for mine clearance. There was a close-up video of it inside a warehouse and it had mine-clearing kit bolted on it...
@@Warren_Peace It's a fair point, but I'd note that, Putin's army being what it is, the tank having anti-mine kit attached and actually being *used* in that role are very different things. We do see it acting as a lead vehicle here, but along what would seem a recently-travelled armor path (although, of course, artillery-scattered AT mines make such things mean much less than they might have done otherwise).
If the intention were just spaced-armor, though, it's hard to see why one would choose the solid material and immovable design seen here, so "infantry protection" still seems the more likely goal.
@michaelccozens Probably because it wasn't used for infantry assault, at least, I never saw it discharge troops during the assault...
The Russian Army has proven itself to be quite adaptable in the battlefield, and their doctrine of artillery have proven itself to be invaluable in this conflict.
it was not. apparently turret was damaged and it could not turn before. it was mine clearing vehicle. also attack was a success.
"One theory is that's it was a troop transport."
Except it never drops off or takes on any passengers. Instead, it drives at the head of actual transports, clearing mines and acting as the up front forward scout while the APCs drop off troops.
"Tanks now being the preferred ride on assaults, with more than a dozen soldiers often seen sitting on top."
Uh, come again?
"The shed being some kind of protection for the soldiers."
It's not even thick enough to protect against carbine fire from 300m.
"I'm the spaced armor club, but the other theory was interesting"
Spaced armor and completely hiding the tank from drones. The outer metal sheets are thin, just a few mm, but drones can neither drop grenades through it nor can they crash into it without some extremely perfect maneuvering.
Also, as we saw in the footage from Krasnohorivka, it got hit almost dead center with at least 2 cluster artillery shells, and they did ZERO damage, and because Ukraine aimed at the turtle, the APCs behind only took some minor shrapnel, probably with neither any losses or actual mechanical damage.
It's also rumored that it may actually RC rather than crewed.
ISU-152 Remastered in service
wish putin would also ocassionaly send some ancient tanks to test their might in modern warfare, i know these would be eventually destroyed by stuff that isnt supposed to destroy modern tanks but isu 152mm cannon was and is still menacing thing to encounter and able to destroy APC, structures, armored shelters not mentioning the SPG ones that could be used as frontline artillery
Actually its how "real tank" should be . Its role is being "battle ram", taking front attacks and still alive. WW1 MARK series had same role. During ww2, tanks were used as "heavy cavalry".
Battle tactics of germany during ww2 were taking from prussian heavy cavalry doctorines. Today, tanks have "balista" roles. Fragile against attacks and has medium range powerful attack.
Today, there is no units has extremely heavy protection and very low fire power. Turtle tanks will fill that role
Could u maybe do a video about weird mt-lb modifications again? They where always interesting to watch 😊
Have you seen the three I did previously? I'm collecting data for one on Russia's naval rocket launcher adaptations at the moment.
If you spot any weird MT-LB adaptations let me know, I'm always interested haha
@@TheArmourersBenchye. So far the only new one I’ve spotted was with the naval anti submarine launchers.
@@TheArmourersBench the recent ones are all over 5 months lol 😭😂. Some weird ones tho 😂
Insert mandatory Abrams MT-LB meme
The DPR has some modified mtlbs with BMP1 turrets. And one has been spotted with a turkish RWS turret mounted ontop. Also some Ukrainian ones have a BTr-70 turret that has dual 12.7mm MGs. Also extra armor.
The video was a few days late. As of today we have evidence of 3 of these, with the third being mounted with an EW suite.
Say what you will about it, but so far all assault operations that they've taken part in have gone well. Not much it could have done about a drone following it, cage or not.
"Assault gone well" means retreated to base with less than 50% casualties ;)
@@ngraderthis is the exact kind of behavior that loses wars, believing your own propaganda
@@ngraderi see you are from different dimension
@@ngrader massive cope looking at how much land the russians have taken in just the past 2 months while the ukrainian counter offensive was a giant failure.
@@BlackWolf9988 massive cope? russians will not win this war anyway lol they lost 15000 people to capture one village XD ONE VILLAGE
it aint stupid if it works
Does to work though?
@@baneofbanes It is. There is phootahe of one such tank, after nazi claimed they destroyed it, driving freely a few km in nazi occupied town. Many drone strikes, but armor holds it well.
@@baneofbanesit does
@@iamaim2847главное, что для кого-то это смешной танк задачу он свою выполнил. И остался целым и невредим.
It doesn't 😂😂😂
"hey dmitry why that shed moving and smoking?"
It worked though, it dropped troops without blowing up through a cluster artillery bombardment.
this tank was seriously damaged previously - the mechanism of the turret rotation was destroyed and the turret was blocked. Factory repair was mandatory. Since the chassis and engine were in good condition it was decided to leave damaged rotating mechanism as is. In the field workshop the crew positioned the gun forward and at first the tank was used as howitzer. But soon the tank had to return to its primary role - assault machine. Since there were no need to keep the turret rotating "Tzar of the cages" was built on top of the tank. Looked hilarious but worked.
Yah that plating ain’t going to protect shit.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Drones may give rise to a whole new family of turtle type troop carriers and assault guns, slow heavy top armour EW, like anti drone strong points crawling over the battlefield
@@merocaine you do realize that sheet metal isn’t fucking protecting anything right?
And drones are only going to get armed with better and better weapon in the future. Slow and heavy isn’t going to be the way to go.
@@baneofbanes but it did. There is the video of attack on railway station in Krasnogorovka. Exactly this tank moved few km under drones' attacks and returned back after mission
@@baneofbanesWell, you can see better from the couch, of course. Do you know what a cumulative jet is? Read it
Southern Krasnohorovka has been conquered thanks to this tank..
Yes many Russians still do not have indoor toilet
@@gont183so do many Americans, more than a million don't have full plumbing. With billions of dollars allocated to fight it every year.
Devastation is not in toilets, its in heads.
@@Daokl the rate is much higher in Russ
@@gont183 US has a lot higher homeless rate. A lot less saunas and idn - abysmal literacy rate. And all that with 12 times more median wealth per capita compared to Russia.
@@gont183 you know that all rich people that have own house have outdoor toilet? But people who live in apartment (in city) all have toilets inside.
I think that if this is specifically against drones, having the added "armour" be made up of simple wire mesh (or even a wire fence) would work fine to stop the drone and make sure detonations are at a far enough distance to reduce effective penetration.
Wouldn't work against FPV RPG-7. The detonator is two loops of wire so they are sensitive to even glancing passes, and adding standoff may actually increase effective penetration.
Slat armor works by crushing the warhead in an attempt to turn HEAT into just HE. Wire mesh actually helps the HEAT jet become more focused.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Interesting, thanks! There was at least one case of a Ukrainian Krab equipped with an ad-hoc "soft catch" system of cargo netting on a wooden-log superstructure defeating a Russian Lancet last year, actually catching the munition whole and apparently-defeating the detonator, so there's some interesting elements at play here. Could come down to as little as "how thick is the wire in the loops we're talking-about?".
fences could work
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD drones with RPG munitions are not that common to be a prominent issue
This might change if "cope sheds" become a thing, but for now the performance should be decent
Makes for a nice little resting spot when you get too tired of tanking
Interesting, better than Abrams and weighs less. This would be a good design as a breakthrough tank. It works well.
If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
It doesn't 😂😂😂
The turtle-tank is OK. Just today was seeing it clearing mines on the video for russians in Krasnogorovka. The russians have own name for it " Царь - мангал " or in english " King - BBQ Grill "
The parts of the *big cope cage* belong to a second tank that should get the upgrade.
The USA once had already a Turtle Tank but this one is a 21 century model )))
Yep, the accompanying article for the video was updated with new footage this morning. Thanks for watching
The German Empire called, they want their A7V back.
Tank? Russia doesn't have tanks. That is obviously a shovel moving with the shed it was originally stored in 🤗
In ru & ua segment of internet it's named "Tsar-Mangal".
("Mangal" - sort of grill from Caucasus)
'blyat-mobile'
Fucking AWESOME...
Oh, that's too funny: The Blyatmobile!
Hahahaha
They do seem trying to turn tank into a monster electronic warfare platform. They did that with normal tank (non-turtle one) some time ago, putting a massive array of various EW modules on it as well as even small diesel generator to power it all up. I guess the idea was for this EW frankenstein platform to serve as FPV protection for the column of assaulting vehicles. But that tank got finally destroyed by fpv after numerous failed attempts.
The turtle tank is continuation of this idea, adding extra protection against fpvs in form of turtle, and with bunch of EW on top. Kinda interesting where it will go from there.
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Interesting development. The advances in drone warfare must pose a terrifying challenge for conventional armour, artillery and infantry.
I have heard rumors that the US Marine Corps is experimenting with unmanned drone tanks. The tank is still useful due to its combination of mobility and firepower. But its survivability has suffered considerably in the last few years due to drone warfare.
Solution? Take the crew out of the tank itself.
"They won't find out if we look like a farmhouse, Dmitri"
If the blyatmobile came under heavy machine gun fire and escaped with the sheeting full of holes then they could have Snoopy sat on top with the caption "CURSE YOU RED BARON"!
Gold comment
Noticed the shell is trapping all the tank exhaust so it looks like it makes more smoke than the a normal tank
I can't even imagine the looks of new MBT's in the next 10 years
the blyatmobile is hilarious
They make fun of it, then quietly copy it and deny ever having laughed... LOL
Can you explain why tank crews leave the hatches open when abandoning the tank? Many of these tanks are close enough to friendly lines to recover, so why don't they do that?
I'm pretty sure that in a run-for-your-life situation, nobody thinks "I'll take 5 more seconds while under heavy fire to close the hatch so that maybe (just maybe) we might recover this in the future"
@@FedericoLucchi yeah, it's like...am I the last guy out? Is the driver still in there...fuck it.
Suchomimus was able to show a photo of Blyatman standing in front of the blyatmobile in the blyatcave where it was destroyed.
It was a lie, blyatmobile struck again yesterday
@@atomica0914 suchonimus is a liar himself, so no wonder. is he a Baltic States' resident by any chance? I would not be surprised if it turns out to be so.
AAAAAND ITS BAAAACK!
@@tawahachee8914 I saw suchonimus's channel when the war first started and he seemed like he was covering the war pretty well, but I checked him out a month ago and his channel literally seems like a Ukrainian propaganda outlet ran out of Kiev, every video was like
" stupid russians EPICALLY OWNED "
Tier
@@johnclay2716 exactly that. even questionable topics are covered like it's all settled and true. he created his own echo chamber and got people inside of it
looks like a fucking house with a cannon
It's a Conestoga wagon on the Oregon trail, they're all f'd.
Very smart take
the tutel is still kicking
I hope the russians call it the Blyat mobile aswell
We haven't decided on the name yet. War reporters call it Tzar-Tank, Tzar-Mangal (Tzar-Grill, since we call cope cages grills), Giga-Mangal, Izba-Tank. I myself like Iron Kaput, it's name of old Russian comedy show.
@@TheHakq Give it some german sounding name
Russians dont use such names as blyatmobil and so on. This is the western perception of Russia kinda cattle alcoholics who swearing 9 words of 10.
I'm pretty sure the ones stuck behind it in the column did call it that.
@@gweher43 panzerkampfwagen X aufurung G "Stahl"
I told y'all this shit was turning into WW1 all over again. Now they brought back the A7Vs
I saw that the other day on a video!
Блятьмобиль - самоходный гараж )))
petition to make this a new vehicle or add-on in war thunder.
Blyatmobile to infinity and beyond!
Fun Fact: During The Second Great War, Cages were used to hinder and/or negate the effects of standard explosive rounds. Unfortunately, these cages were very thin, and only serve to detonate the round before it could touch the actual tank. This means that HE rounds with enough Explosive mass within, and members of the HEAT family could sometimes easily break through and pierce the armour of unfortunate vehicles.
the turtle tank is a massive morale booster. For sure.
If grenade from a drone dropped into hatch burns tank it doesn't means that tank is a junk, it means that the crew that abandoned it are idiots because they didn't closed it.
So the Battering Ram shed is back
I'm guessing it's a VIP taxi, the heat is probably going to be a problem for these in a month or so.
It seems the Blyatmobile is still out there doing its stuff. Maybe the picture of it hit in the barn was why it was damaged, given the turtle shell and assigned mine-clearing.
Not sure that's the case but who knows. Another image of a tank with a similar shell appeared today, either a rebuild or fresh.
@@TheArmourersBench Not sure either. The image I saw had the gun pointing in same relative direction and I read that they were unable to move the gun due to the earlier damage, so maybe... Intriguing non the less.
It's a curious thing that's for sure!!
good content
The grill tank, the turtle tank, the next level will be underground tank with drills)
How about building a full tiny dacha on the tank, serving the dual purpose of disguises and UAV cage?
Plus perhaps some creature comforts for the crew when they are not on a mission.
It looking non standard is a feature against AI targeting which is used when EW suppresses human targeting. And turtle tank includes EW.
I don't know how prevalent AI targeting is on UA FPVs yet, I recall some tests confirmed earlier this month. Interesting thought, would be intriguing to know if the AI can be spoofed that way.
In the future we might be seeing a new combination arise of much better protected tanks using a reconnaissance drone to provide themselves a bird's eye view.
This would greatly improve their awareness and responsiveness, and the drone might even have some offensive or aiming capabilities. The tank itself could have a few spare drones in case the first one was destroyed.
Tanks are outdated anyway, They serve the role of "bullet catcher" still for such provoking assaults, but beyond this they got little meaning.
@@miriamweller812 Tanks are not obsolete because they get taken out, do you think IFVs are also useless because they get taken out? Do you think infantry is useless because it gets taken out ? Obviously if modern militaries especially ones who are actively involved in a conflict still use tanks there's a very good reason for it
@@miriamweller812 I think they do have their use, tough it may not be evident in Ukraine.
Keep in mind the Soviet plan was to do a preemptive nuclear strike on Europe, then take advantage of the chaos to do a swift land invasion.
Nuclear wastelands are not the best place for infantry so the troops would have had to use IFVs and tanks to move trough.
@@iotaje1 this is a blatant lie. A preventive nuclear strike has never been prescribed in the military doctrine of the Russian Federation and the USSR. According to our military doctrines, we can only use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack or to a non-nuclear attack if it threatens the existence of the country. Dot. Moreover, neither the USSR nor the Russian Federation ever developed plans for offensive operations against Europe, and even those starting with a nuclear strike. It was the United States that created plans for a nuclear attack on the USSR, and not vice versa! And not just one plan, but about 30 throughout the Cold War. So stop lying, you shameless liars, and stop blaming others for what you yourself are guilty of!
@@user-cx3tv1ed3e According to Russian military doctrine they would never have invaded Ukraine, and this is what all the government representatives and their pundits kept parroting until the invasion began. The problem with Russia is that you people lie all the time, after a while we get it.
I'm looking at the Soviet Union's equipment buildup, what they chose to have and what capabilities they chose to have. You can look at many countries this way.
The USSR devoted about half their GDP to military buildup for decades (such levels are usually only seen during wartime) and ended up with the world's largest nuclear arsenal by very far, as well as the world's largest motorised army with artillery. The thorough morotisation is intended to allow troops to operate in nuclear wasteland and the very large numbers hint at their true purpose : attackers usually expend about 3 times as many men and materials as defenders so if you want to conquer a country you need an army that's at least 3 times bigger.
Their plan was to nuke all of Europe and then conquer it swiftly with soldiers protected in their tanks and IFVs. As usual they lied about it a'd claimed they only wanted to defend themselves, which makes no sense when you look at their military buildup.
I wonder if cladding the tank in dragons teeth would be more effective than the cope cage
This could be a rough draft to a new vehicle: A self propelled direct firing 155mm gun that can transport the infantries within the seethe cage, while the infantries are able to use it to clear buildings, directly fire at the enemy position with artillery shells while being safely shielded from drones and cluster munitions
this is actually incredible I don't why people aren't saying that technically this means super heavy tanks and tanks without turrets can be viable if adapted to the current requirements of warfare, my question was when I saw this "why isn't there an IFV that is extremely armored like this thing but can carry infantry ?
@@Stormyy6310 it would be too slow. speed is of the essence in a heavily surveilled battlefield. they would invite artillery strikes.
@@AndRei-yc3ti then how come that thing is not slow ? A proper design would be far more optimized in its armor design and would not be too slow obviously, and besides speed isn't actually that big of a factor (unless we're dealing in extremes) if your ifvs get instantly destroyed by cheap drones
it works to fight drones now all they need is some form of anti mine sweeper device in front of them.
As I said in the vid it has a KMT6 mine plough.
Wonder what the next invention either sides would come up? Paint rocket or speaker drone?
dont forget guys cope cage was funny only as protection from top strike atgms, but againts drons its working properly
Extra armor is always good if there are no drawbacks.
In regard of tanks this is mostly weight, but this extra armor isn't heavy.
ATGSMs are by the way no wonder weapons which automatically destroy a tank if you fire at them and even if they it doesn't mean that it has to destroy the tank. And every little bit can change that.
@@miriamweller812 Yeah but there is a serius problem with escaping from tank with cage.
The Assault gun is making a come back baby
See also german shurzen used in the 2nd ww. Vision wouldn’t be restricted , tiny cameras are dirt cheap and could be used for 360 vision.
When I first saw it I thought it was a modified MTLB
This is because it makes a turret pointless but for a MTLB With a anti tank gun on top of it it can presumably stop a rifle
0:32 "engineers" ))))) В полевых условиях наварили металлических листов... Ну главное что работает
Это "Царь-танк". У нашего танка заклинило башню после попадания снаряда противника. Ремонт в полевых условиях был не возможен, поэтому было решено усилить противодронную броню и продолжить на нём гасить врага.
@@user-bn8vi5fd1nбольше мины, а не самих врагов
Never ever in my life would I sit on the hull of a tank that had a mine plough attached to the front.
My boxed paracer walking up to a turret tower
Scrapped 1919
Built 2024
Welcome back Sturmpanzerwagen A7V
The turtle tank has returned.
Yep!
WW1 has called, they want their Landship-Designs back.
With mine countermeasures becoming more widely used, i wonder if anyone has made a mine that need to be triggered multiple times before it explodes
Canopy and caged tanks have been a thing since before WWII and provides camo and deflection of mortars and artillery fire.
Indeed. The first instances of similar probably date back to the grenade deflecting wire frames mounted on British Heavy tanks in WW1.
Apparently, the turret was already damaged so they decided to use the tank to clear mines for the fully operational ones.
Apparently so yeab
"Universal Fvс|< Mobile"... Very nice. I am almost proud for english-speaking news agencies or who ever came to this idea.
Though personally I think that's [the "shell"] the expectable engineering decision of ruinous over-longed conflict, which activity is graved lower than WWI trench wars were. No safe backgrounds or flanks, no honour, no mercy, no truths. The worst thing if it's going to become "meta" for every upcoming conflict.
In recent attacks Russia doesn't really use their armor as combat vehicles but rather as means of getting the infantry close enough to attack Ukrainian positions, once the dismounts get off the vehicles head back to the rear. From that perspective mobility and ability to traverse the gun are of minor importance, priority is to protect the dismounts until they get into position and then get the vehicle back to the base safely.
Indeed the importance of the gun is certainly less than usual.
This has been the case for most of the war for both sides.
Arguably Wagner PMC pioneered the strategy but I think it's just evolved out of 10 years of modern warfare in the Donbas.
Damn, did not know Schneider had applique armor already in WW1!
War never changed
The need is the mother of innovation
Is there also Suka Mobile
we went full circle back to the MK5 tanks we go
Well, this does prevent getting the fate of the m1150 assault breacher
1:21 BLYAT MOBILE 💀
They made more there was another video of a turtle tank going back and forth doing recon .
Yeah, I added it to the accompanying article for this video this morning.
Somebody once told me
The war is gonna roll me