.IN OVERDUE 2021 Russia began welding metal cages over the turrets of its own tanks, in an attempt to protect all of them from attack. The crates verified inefficient– some Western experts amusingly dubbed them “emotional-support armour”. Currently Russia has launched an even more intense retrofit, utilizing metal sheet to entirely enclose several of its own storage tanks.
The new armour has actually earned the vehicles the label “turtle tanks”. Will kitting all of them out thus really help?