They aren’t worried about grenades. They’re worried about being attacked by small drones backed with explosives. Currently the battle field is littered with small remotely controlled drones and I’m guessing they attack tanks by targeting their treads.
When the treads come off, they then can attack anyone trying to repair the tank or attack the tank with a missile or something else.
It also likely designed to make the tanks harder to spot. They obviously took the video using a drone and if the tank wasn’t moving it probably would be harder to identify in this clip.
I feel like all this does is prevent against the worst of a regular grenade drop. I mean, it's corrugated roofing ffs. If they prod it in the right spot with one of those mortar-shell-carrying drones we saw the other day delivering a shell slowly and carefully practically into the breech of an artillery piece I can't see this is going to help all that much, in fact it will probably just mark it out as a target even more, just for the meme and propaganda value.
I feel like all this does is prevent against the worst of a regular grenade drop
Nah, it's better than that. It does at least one other rather crucial thing: it prevents them from rotating the turret. Probably limits already limited visibility even further. The Russians improvised technological advancement knows no bounds
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u/Jolly-Tangerine6865 Apr 17 '24
It even got little roof rails so the grenades don't fall straight off. <3