.IN LATE 2021 Russia began assembly steel cages over the turrets of its tanks, in an attempt to protect them from assault. The crates confirmed ineffective– some Western side experts jokingly called all of them “emotional-support armour”. Now Russia has offered a much more demanding retrofit, making use of metal sheeting to entirely confine a number of its own storage tanks.
The brand-new armour has gotten the vehicles the label “tortoise tanks”. Will kitting them out this way really aid?