Russlands „Löwenzahn“-Panzerpanzerung könnte funktionieren
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ad060dc3480648e6
Russlands „Löwenzahn“-Panzerpanzerung könnte funktionieren
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ad060dc3480648e6
16 Kommentare
They still have tanks?
This looks like a lot of effort and the tank is probably still vulnerable to thermite and Javelin
Looks like they’re getting ready to invade Burning Man.
>“Ukrainian soldiers once mocked the Russians for putting cages on their vehicles; now they are doing it too,”
Yes, because the Russian Army was using „cope“ cages to block Javelins and NLAWs, to absolutely no effect whatsoever — except to appear that they were doing something productive.
People on this very sub noted at the time that the cage concept as such might not be so bad, if it were used against drones instead of as a way to coax tankers into one-way battlefield trips. And so it eventually was.
In that same spirit, one of the things I keep seeing is that Russian improvised defenses persistently seem half-hearted. They rarely seem to bother covering important attack surfaces like the undercarriage or treads. Whereas Ukrainian improvised defenses seem to actually try not to leave obvious huge honking gaps that you can fly a drone right into. The article’s own pictures demonstrate that quite well, actually, though no one seems to have noted it. Or the Telegraph didn’t want to make note of it for some reason.
TM-62 drone and land ahead of the tracks. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been utilized.
Oh LOOK! A dandelion, must be the last one of the season!
Then again it might not. And given the Kremlin’s track record, that’s the most likely outcome.
Ukraine always finds a way.
it’ll work against drones, but how much is it interfering with the tanks ability to do tank things?
Does it stop 155?
Dandelion wouldn’t stop a javelin and maybe a baba yaga dropping larger munitions would work after you disable a track. I don’t see it working in the long term
Yeah these turtle tanks do work it often takes 40-60 drones to destroy one.
The Telegraph. Never an opportunity wasted.
If a whole shed won’t work, just the brooms won’t do it either.
Just pushing up dandelions with more steps
In all honesty I think it really is a good measure against drones.
It looks funny but compared to the massive weight the turtle tank armour weighs and the fact those turtle tanks can rarely still move their guns significantly, coupled with the lack of visibility, the “dandelion” armour seems really effective and I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukrainian tanks, APCs and IFVs started adopting it.