When Russian troops first realized their tanks and other armored vehicles were vulnerable to Ukraine’s explosive first-person-view drones, shortly after Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022, they doubled down on a form of improvised armor that already protected some vehicles from rocket-propelled grenades. “If a tank is spotted with cages and a jammer, it takes at least double or triple the usual number — six to eight drones — to disable it,” one Ukrainian drone operator told Ukrainian-American war correspondent David Kirichenko. In short, take around three tons of heavy-duty aluminum cable, unwind short sections of it and weld it to a tank’s cope cage.
Author: David Axe
Published at: 2025-11-08 21:54:15
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