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 ...

RUSSIA has deployed its weirdest battle tank of the war so far as it comes built with a whole house around it and even a chimney. Paranoid Vladimir Putin has been forced to modify his Soviet-era war ...

Russia’s bizarre “turtle tank” died the way it lived: encased in an awkward metal shell that prevented its turret from rotating and surely hindered its mobility. Just a day or so after the modified ...

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 ...

In a brief, violent sequence captured on video in 2024, a Ukrainian first-person-view drone dived through an open hatch of a Russian "turtle tank" near Bakhmut and detonated inside, destroying the ...

Russia’s mine-clearing turtle tanks continue to evolve. But not fast enough to save them from predation—by Ukraine’s increasingly dangerous first-person-view drones and other heavy munitions. A turtle ...