Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw. And the West has known about it since the Gulf war

CNN ^ | 28-APR-2022 | Brad Lendon

[Striperman]

people here can be nasty like Pelosi

[Cronos]

Wallace is actually an interesting surname.

Like William Wallace.

It is derived from the Germanic word for non Germanic speaker, “Wahl-”. That’s why you have the exonym Wales, Walloon and Wallachia.

The Germanic word for italy was transmitted to Poland and that’s why the Polish word for Italy is Włochy .

William Wallace was most likely from Strathylclyde, the area of Ault Cluth, or the Old North, one of the last Breton kingdoms that held out against the Angles in the north before being incorporated into Scotland along with the Scotti (an Irish people!) and the Picts.

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I've watched videos on the same thing. In order to have only 4 crewmen per tank, they got rid of the loader by going with an auto-loader machine. That required the ammo to be stored near the top of the tank, the weakest part of the tank armor.. So, when the top is penetrated by something like a javelin, it sets of the tank's own ammo, and that isn't survivable for the crew or tank.

I imagine they'll now fully armor the top with some kind of hydraulics to open the far heavier hatch.