What began as a viral curiosity has turned into a deliberate battlefield adaptation. New footage shows Russia fielding multiple “turtle tanks,” now equipped with electronic jammers and mine-clearing ...

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

In April 2024, rare footage from near Krasnohorivka showed a Russian T-72 wrapped in a massive metal shell, seemingly built to survive Ukraine’s deadly FPV drone swarms. Mocked online as a “Turtle ...

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

Desperate to clear mines in the no-man’s-land between Russian and Ukrainian positions—and equally desperate to protect the mine-clearers from Ukraine’s explosive drones—the Russian military devised a ...

The third Russian turtle tank. Russia’s “turtle tank”—an old T-72 with a drone-resisting armored shell installed on top of it—wasn’t a one-off. The Russians clearly are building a host of turtle tanks ...

Summary and Key Points: The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced both Ukrainian and Russian forces to innovate due to severe shortages in weapons systems. One such Russian innovation is the “turtle tank, ...

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