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Ukraine mocked Russia’s hairy anti-drone tanks—now builds its own
euromaidanpress ^ | 11 11 2025 | David Axe

Posted on 12/03/2025 6:40:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen

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Russian Hedgehog Tank


1 posted on 12/03/2025 6:40:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

You can just hear the drivetrains shrieking.


2 posted on 12/03/2025 6:44:35 AM PST by greenbrier
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


3 posted on 12/03/2025 7:00:04 AM PST by lee martell
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Chi-Chi-Chi- CHIA!!


4 posted on 12/03/2025 7:01:28 AM PST by lee martell
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


5 posted on 12/03/2025 7:23:14 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s not just the “hedgehog” effect. Appears to be many improvised defensive strategies installed.


6 posted on 12/03/2025 7:24:17 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: yesthatjallen

Look like bad AI image


7 posted on 12/03/2025 7:26:47 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: DesertRhino

That is AI cammo. It prevents the AI algorithms on drones from recognizing the tank as a tank


8 posted on 12/03/2025 7:26:50 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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Wouldn’t good AI quickly learn this was a tank?


9 posted on 12/03/2025 7:29:17 AM PST by pas
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To: yesthatjallen
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10 posted on 12/03/2025 7:29:45 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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“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.


11 posted on 12/03/2025 7:35:10 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: pas

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


12 posted on 12/03/2025 7:35:39 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: The Louiswu; yesthatjallen

13 posted on 12/03/2025 7:44:29 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: yesthatjallen

“The head of my fan club in Cleveland is an Angora sweater.
She’s fuzzy.
Love that fuzz!”


14 posted on 12/03/2025 7:59:49 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: yesthatjallen

It probably does not meet us military grooming standards .


15 posted on 12/03/2025 8:07:34 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: dayglored

The good old Tarkus tank... Why didn’t the Russians think of that?


16 posted on 12/03/2025 8:14:29 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: The Louiswu

I thought for sure I’d be the only one thinking it looked like an OGRE.


17 posted on 12/03/2025 8:35:09 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: yesthatjallen

Call it a Buckwheat Bolo.


18 posted on 12/03/2025 8:45:35 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: yesthatjallen

That Dalek needs a haircut!


19 posted on 12/03/2025 9:08:25 AM PST by null and void (New NYC hungry homeless begging sign: "I got what you voted for, PLEASE HELP!")
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To: rdcbn1

That’s cool. But I was saying it still sucks for the guys who have to climb in and out of the tank. Sucks less than getting a nazi bomb dropped on you by a drone...but only just slightly!


20 posted on 12/03/2025 10:56:00 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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