Yesterday, I watched an 11 minute compilation of Russian armor beaten to smithereens by Ukie drones.
War breaks things.
Interested to learn why ammo was stored on the exterior of a tank.
Why would you want to store high explosives inside your tank? I saw that video too.
Russian, British, German, Abrams tanks have ALL been getting plastered by drones. It appears that tanks, like aircraft carriers, are quickly becoming obsolete.
It may be that tanks have not worked well for either side.
Most modern Western tanks store ammo in a separate compartment with blowout panels and automatic loading doors to the main turret compartment. This is meant to shield the crew from the effects of ammo cookoffs. This compartment is in the tanks turret bustle in the rear.
Ex Soviet tanks store ammo in the hull or in the autoloader magazine around the inside of the turret basket. This often causes the catastrophic destruction of the tank (the now infamous “turret toss”) with the instant loss of the crew.
Conscripts with marginal training....do stupid things.