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NATO Is SHOCKED: That's Why The Russian TURTLE TANK Is So Dangerous And Effective On The BATTLEFIELD
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Posted on 04/30/2024 9:11:40 PM PDT by ganeemead

Russian tanks have gotten much harder to kill....


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1 posted on 04/30/2024 9:11:40 PM PDT by ganeemead
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To: ganeemead

Like the way the Roman Legions used their shields as overhead protection against a flurry of arrows. The called it “testudo” or, tortoise shell. So tortoise, turtle, whatever. Nothing new under the sun.


2 posted on 04/30/2024 9:27:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Looks to me as if they’ve created a defense against one threat that makes them far more vulnerable to others.

Don’t expect these to be effective for very long...


3 posted on 04/30/2024 9:30:28 PM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege

“Don’t expect these to be effective for very long...”

Yeah, all big z needs is more of our children’s future to continue his futile attempt at victory. FJB and FVZ


4 posted on 04/30/2024 10:12:04 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: jdege

A close-up suggests the tanks “turtle” covering is made of wooden 2x8s.

Which, I guess, will protect the tank itself from “an enemy’s” drone dropping explosives from the air.

Interesting that sandbags are still used underneath.


5 posted on 04/30/2024 11:07:24 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: ganeemead

Yeah, but they look dumb!


6 posted on 04/30/2024 11:08:41 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: ganeemead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_tortoise


7 posted on 04/30/2024 11:55:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ganeemead

Battlefield expediency, been around for a long while:
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-usa-improvised-armor-on-m4-shermans-in-the-pto/


8 posted on 05/01/2024 1:47:54 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Does so

So now it takes 2 FPVs to take out a tank. Or one landmine.


9 posted on 05/01/2024 2:20:00 AM PDT by Justa
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To: ganeemead

Yikes, YouTube on Android it’s mostly unwatchable an exercise in distraction


10 posted on 05/01/2024 3:33:24 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Jeff Chandler

The tortoise is an amazing creature to keep as a pet. It hibernates behind the sofa all winter and comes out to its big water dish in the spring and empties itself out in the water. Then it’s good to go for wandering about the house on its own. As the article says, keep water dishes clean and available and give it balanced diet including greens.


11 posted on 05/01/2024 4:17:11 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: ganeemead

It should be easy to modify our tanks to do the same thing as the Russians did with their tanks...if we had the spot on non feminised leader ship that could get it done!


12 posted on 05/01/2024 4:24:08 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: ganeemead

More propaganda... I’m sure a hellfire, javelin and NLAWs work just fine and any other anti tank weapon fired into the front or back would work fine as well .. the shell has minimal effect on a real weapon.


13 posted on 05/01/2024 4:26:54 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ganeemead

Just shows how INNOVATIVE the Russia are, especially when compared to the Warmed-over Hippies who run Western militaries and governments.


14 posted on 05/01/2024 4:47:28 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: ganeemead

More of your usual Russian lies and propaganda

This can be safely ignored (as usual)


15 posted on 05/01/2024 5:24:29 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: jdege

They aren’t effective - they are a joke on the battlefield - good for collecting mines - the exploding mines keep all the force under the steel shell, dooming the crew, but keeping others from harm.


16 posted on 05/01/2024 7:03:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: canuck_conservative
Meanwhile Ukie dog faces are accepting surrender to Russian forces.

No one wants to fight for the crooked little dwarf Zman and all of his. Oligarch, EuroWankers. And NWO NeoCucks.

Sit out the war until either Zman flees or is strung up by Ukrainian patriots.

Zman the greasy humpback , where will he run too ?

17 posted on 05/01/2024 7:09:27 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Justa

That is pretty much the size of it. And I am not sure the “design” has really been tested much yet. I think the turtle tank withstood a couple of drone assaults. But that is not a thoroughly convincing proof of concept. It could just be luck.


18 posted on 05/01/2024 7:26:21 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Ciexyz

Our Sonoran Desert tortoise, Frances, sleeps in a box in the closet next to my desk all winter. In the spring when I hear her scratching I put her outside in her habitat where she gets to eat dichondra, hibiscus, grape leaves, strawberry leaves, Bermuda grass, fescue, weeds, and Zoomed grassland tortoise food, as well as the occasional corn cobette or lettuce leaf.

During the middle of the scorching Arizona summer days she stays in the burrow I built for her, complete with cool air from the house blown in through a dryer hose by a little computer fan.

Yeah, she’s spoiled.


19 posted on 05/01/2024 9:26:37 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ganeemead
You’re such a gullible idiot…

Russian "turtle" tank seized by Ukrainians reveals shocking insides
20 posted on 06/24/2024 2:41:19 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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