Posted on 12/03/2025 6:40:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Adding thousands of metal "hairs" to a tank helps to protect the tank from first-person-view drones
The Russians first fielded these hairy "hedgehog" tanks this fall
Now the Ukrainians are building their own hedgehogs, hoping to reduce the impact of Russian FPVs
In their never-ending effort to protect armored vehicles from the tiny first-person-view drones that are everywhere all the time all along the 1,100-km front line of Russia's wider war on Ukraine, Russian forces have introduced a number of bizarre innovations.
The resulting "cope cages" and "turtle," "porcupine" and "hedgehog" tanks are ungainly and, frankly, ugly. But they work. In fact, they work so well that Ukrainian forces usually copy each modification for their own armored vehicles.
The latest Russian anti-drone innovation is no exception.
Adding thousands of metal "hairs" to the existing anti-drone cope cages on a growing number of hedgehog tanks, the Russians have inspired the Ukrainians to do the same.
Now "both Russian and Ukrainian forces are modifying their tanks into so-called hedgehogs," the pro-Ukraine Conflict Intelligence Team observed.
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You can just hear the drivetrains shrieking.
If there is an American version of the hairy tank, maybe it will be called a “Bob Ross Tank”, named after the later landscape painter, Bob Ross, famous for his formulaic painting technique and his big hair, a frizzy do, which resembled a Jackson Five style Afro.
Chi-Chi-Chi- CHIA!!
If it looks stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. And I bet that’s a lot of fun for the crew getting in and out.
It’s not just the “hedgehog” effect. Appears to be many improvised defensive strategies installed.
Look like bad AI image
That is AI cammo. It prevents the AI algorithms on drones from recognizing the tank as a tank
Wouldn’t good AI quickly learn this was a tank?
“That is AI cammo. It prevents the AI algorithms on drones from recognizing the tank as a tank”
Nope. FPV drones that explode on contact.
Maybe, but if you look at how the AI pattern matching algorithms work, it’s really hard for them to discern that kind of shape. More importantly, it confuses the algorithm to the point where the AI will target things like stands of trees or brush instead of the tank
“The head of my fan club in Cleveland is an Angora sweater.
She’s fuzzy.
Love that fuzz!”
It probably does not meet us military grooming standards .
The good old Tarkus tank... Why didn’t the Russians think of that?
I thought for sure I’d be the only one thinking it looked like an OGRE.
Call it a Buckwheat Bolo.
That Dalek needs a haircut!
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